When OpenCV Fails on Android — PyJNIus to the Rescue!
OpenCV broke again — but this time, I didn’t give up.
In this video, we fix a real OpenCV problem on Android: the FPS (frames-per-second) value that refuses to work inside a Kivy + Python-for-Android app.
Using PyJNIus, Kivy’s hidden Java bridge, we directly access the Android MediaMetadataRetriever class to get accurate video FPS — bypassing the broken OpenCV call entirely.
You’ll learn:
Why OpenCV’s built-in FPS call fails in p4a apps
How to call Android SDK functions from Python
How PyJNIus lets you fix or extend any broken OpenCV function
How to integrate the snippet into your own Kivy project
Code Request:
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