OpenCV Python Scripts Mac "aborts"

Question

So I'm just trying to run the basic OpenCV program

    import numpy as np
    import cv2

    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

    while(True):
        # Capture frame-by-frame
        ret, frame = cap.read()

        # Our operations on the frame come here
        gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2BGRA)

        # Display the resulting frame
        cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
            break

    # When everything done, release the capture
    cap.release()
    cv2.destroyAllWindows()

But for some reason when I try to run it (with python 2 or 3) I get this weird abort statement

    [1]    74309 abort      python3 index.py

(I'm guessing the 5 digit number is the PID) However, it does work if I pass in a path to an already existing video in the VideoCapture function. I am a beginner in all of this so I'm not really sure what the problem is

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I found the solution! I tried running the script using the default terminal that comes with mac and it worked :) So it seems there was some weird issue with the third party terminal (iTerm) I was using