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Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 6013

Why OpenCV's `cvCreateCameraCapture` and `cvCreateFileCapture` do not work?

Have an AVI videofile, and a webcam. cvQueryFrame returns null in both cases. Code is applied(only for cam):

#include "highgui.h"
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{   
    cvNamedWindow( "KillCam", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
    cvWaitKey(0);
    CvCapture* capture = cvCreateCameraCapture(-1);
    assert(capture != NULL);
    IplImage* frame;

    while(1){
        frame = cvQueryFrame( capture ); 
        if( !frame ) break;
        cvShowImage( "KillCam", frame );
        char c = cvWaitKey(33);
        if( c == 30 ) break;
    }
    cvReleaseCapture( &capture );
    cvDestroyWindow( "KillCam" );
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13554

Answers (2)

sipickles
sipickles

Reputation: 1662

I found, by stepping into the openCV code, that I needed to ensure the fmpeg dll was present in the current working directory at runtime:

opencv_ffmpeg200d.dll

OpenCV doesn't shed any warning if this dll is not found, instead the capture create call just returns NULL.

hth

Si

Upvotes: 3

Mike O&#39;Malley
Mike O&#39;Malley

Reputation: 335

Check the video format. OpenCV can be picky in which codecs it supports; it doesn't work with Xvid, for example. You can find a list of supported codecs on the OpenCV wiki

Upvotes: 0

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