How to get true raw data input from webcam? pref with python

Question

Interested in getting the raw data that is streamed from a webcam..before it is transformed into binary -> pixels or whatever the sequence is.

From my understanding, libraries like opencv won't help with this.

Edit: kiss

Answer 1

in order to see the image output from a webcam using python you need to convert it from raw image data (the pixels) into a image that can be displayed one way you can do it is by using matplotlib more info here https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/introductory/images.html this will display the image but will not convert it into other image formats such as .png .jpeg ext. but the data you are getting is probably pixel data which is the rawest image data you will get