I have a code like this:
import numpy as np
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('C:/Users/Hilman/haatsu/drive_recorder/sample/3.mov')
# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi', fourcc, 20.0, (640,480))
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
if ret==True:
frame = cv2.flip(frame,0)
# write the flipped frame
out.write(frame)
cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
else:
break
# Release everything if job is finished
cap.release()
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
But the output.avi
cannot be played.
Tried also change the out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi', fourcc, 20.0, (640,480))
to something like this (as suggested by some people) out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi', -1, 20.0, (640,480))
. But when I did this, I got this message
OpenCV: FFMPEG: tag 0xffffffff/' ' is not found (format 'avi / AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)')'
.
What could be the problem? I am using Windows 10 by the way.
I couldn't get that code to run on my Windows 10 machine either.
So here's what I did:
- I followed these instructions and installed the latest ffmpeg build on machine:
- Download the latest static build for Windows and then extract the files. You may need 7zip to extract.
- Create a folder in C:\ called
ffmpeg
- Copy the contents of the extracted files into C:\ffmpeg
- Edit your PATH environment variable to append at the end the following entry:
C:\ffmpeg\bin;
- Confirm that everything is working correct by opening a cmd prompt and enter the following (Note you might need to run cmd as administrator):
ffmpeg -version
- Modified your code as follows:
_
import numpy as np
import cv2
import os
base_path = 'C:\\Users\\Hilman\\haatsu\\drive_recorder\\sample\\'
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('%s3.mov' % base_path)
i = 0
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
if ret==True:
frame = cv2.flip(frame,0)
cv2.imwrite(os.path.join(base_path, str(i) + '.png'), frame)
i = i + 1
else:
break
# Release everything if job is finished
cap.release()
- Opened a command prompt at
C:\Users\Hilman\haatsu\drive_recorder\sample
and ran the following command: ffmpeg -framerate 29 -i %d.png -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4
- Your video should be saved as
out.mp4
.
I'm using OpenCV 2.4.9 on Ubuntu 14.04, and the following code works just fine for me:
import cv2
import cv
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
ret,img=cap.read()
height , width , layers = img.shape
fps=20
video = cv2.VideoWriter("rec_out.avi", cv.CV_FOURCC(*'DIVX'), fps, (img.shape[1], img.shape[0]))
while True:
ret,img=cap.read()
height , width , layers = img.shape
video.write(img)
cv2.imshow('Video', img)
#video.write(img)
if(cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xFF == ord('b')):
break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
video.release()