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Coderaemon
Coderaemon

Reputation: 3877

Counting the Number of Frames in a Video file using OpenCV?

I am trying to count total number of Frames in my video file ('foo.h264').

>>> import numpy as nm
>>> import cv2
>>> cap = cv2.VideoCapture('foo.h264')
>>> cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT' is not defined
>>> cap.get(5)
25.0
>>> cap.get(7)
-192153584101141.0

So I think get(5) is giving frame rate and get(7) gives total number of frames. Obviously get(7) is incorrect in the above case. So to verify I tried to find these values in an .avi file.

>>> cap = cv2.VideoCapture('foo.avi')
>>> cap.get(5)
29.97002997002997
>>> cap.get(7)
256379.0

I can calculate the total number of frames by multiplying FPS by duration of the video, but I'm not sure if the FPS given for .h264 is right or not. Why does it give negative number of total frames? Is this a bug?
P.S: I recorded this video file (.h264) using raspberry pi camera.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10580

Answers (3)

Akascape
Akascape

Reputation: 552

This worked for me (no opencv used):

import imageio

file="video.mp4" #the path of the video
vid=imageio.get_reader(file,  'ffmpeg')
totalframes = vid.count_frames()

print(totalframes)

It will return the total frames :)

Upvotes: 4

Hessamoddin Shafeian
Hessamoddin Shafeian

Reputation: 51

Another solution is using imageio, which works for some videos.

import imageio
filename="person15_walking_d1_uncomp.avi"
vid = imageio.get_reader(filename,  'ffmpeg')
# number of frames in video
num_frames=vid._meta['nframes']

Upvotes: 5

optimist
optimist

Reputation: 1018

As it turns out OpenCV does not support h.264 format (Link). However, the documentation on Video Capture at Python OpenCV documentation mentions an integer argument for the get command. So, you're right on that count on using 5 and 7 instead of 'CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT'. You could try changing the capture format on the raspberry pi to avi.

Upvotes: 1

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