Check the Camera $ ls /dev/video* Show video import cv2 src = '/dev/video0' W, H, fps = 1920, 1080, 30 cap = cv2.VideoCapture(src) cap.set(3, W) cap.set(4, H) cap.set(5, fps) while(True): ret, frame = cap.read() if ret: cv2.imshow('video', cv2.resize(frame, dsize=(960, 540))) if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): break else: break cap.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows()