Playing with video capture properties

In some of the previous examples, we saw how to get some properties from the cv2.VideoCapture object. In this section, we are going to see how we can get all of the properties and understand how they work. Finally, we are going to use these properties to load a video file and output it backwards (showing the last frame of the video first and so on).

Getting all the properties from the video capture object

First, we create the read_video_file_all_properties.py script to show all the properties. Some of these properties only work when we're working with cameras (not with video files). In these cases, a 0 value is returned. Additionally, we have created the decode_fourcc() function...