https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.13/recipes2.html#rapid-capture-and-processing
import io
import time
import picamera
class SplitFrames(object):
def __init__(self):
self.frame_num = 0
self.output = None
def write(self, buf):
if buf.startswith(b'\xff\xd8'):
# Start of new frame; close the old one (if any) and
# open a new output
if self.output:
self.output.close()
self.frame_num += 1
self.output = io.open('image%02d.jpg' % self.frame_num, 'wb')
self.output.write(buf)
with picamera.PiCamera(resolution='720p', framerate=30) as camera:
camera.start_preview()
# Give the camera some warm-up time
time.sleep(2)
output = SplitFrames()
start = time.time()
camera.start_recording(output, format='mjpeg')
camera.wait_recording(2)
camera.stop_recording()
finish = time.time()
print('Captured %d frames at %.2ffps' % (
output.frame_num,
output.frame_num / (finish - start)))