
To us, icons felt heavy and provided little value. The team loved the simple, clean look of an icon-less tree. When we started work on the "Monaco" editor, icons in the Explorer didn't make the cut for a lightweight editor. was an intern in Zurich lab and spent a couple of hours hacking in a basic set of icons because he wanted to differentiate between files and folders when quickly glancing at the tree. These words all describe the first time we added icons to the File Explorer tree in VS Code, back in 2014.

vs = cv2.VideoCapture(0): opens up stream with /dev/video0.

To stream 1080p you can use the following block:

So the code: vs = cv2.VideoCapture(0), will stream 640x480 frames regardless of your webcam’s capabilities. Using OpenCV directly For reasons I understand and still get annoyed with, opencv defaults to 640x480 on most webcams. To top that, don’t forget the massive amount of bandwidth required to carry 1080p video stream from the camera to the processor.Īnd unless its really required, 1080p is just a waste of processing power for most opencv enthusiast usecases, for people who don’t have access to specialized hardware. It requires massive amounts of compute, usually in the form of server grade CPU with massive core counts and compute accelerator cards like GPUs, FPGAs, Xeon Phi etc. Ever wondered why none of the opencv demos and instructions run at 1080p? Why everyone prefers 640x480 in this day and age? Truth be told
