From 955f489621f675a2fc37bce15cbda0430ac1a2af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Rojtberg <rojtberg@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 11:41:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make CV_CAP_PROP_FORMAT consider the current channel count

---
 modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp b/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp
index 00f6b21b1a..36dd928ec4 100644
--- a/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp
+++ b/modules/videoio/src/cap_v4l.cpp
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ static double icvGetPropertyCAM_V4L (const CvCaptureCAM_V4L* capture,
       case CV_CAP_PROP_MODE:
           return capture->palette;
       case CV_CAP_PROP_FORMAT:
-          return CV_8UC3;
+          return CV_MAKETYPE(CV_8U, capture->frame.nChannels);
       case CV_CAP_PROP_CONVERT_RGB:
           return capture->convert_rgb;
       }