Webcam can be opened but not read

asked 2017-11-08 15:14:30 -0600

lincolnb
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updated 2017-11-08 15:26:28 -0600

berak
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I'm using the Java bindings for OpenCV 3.3.1, although I had this same issue with 2.4.13.

What I want to do is open the webcam, and display each frame as it is captured. Here is my code:

VideoCapture camera = new VideoCapture();
camera.open(0);
Mat frame = new Mat();

if (!camera.isOpened()) {
    System.out.println("The camera could not be opened.");
    return;
} else {
    while (true) {
        if (camera.read(frame)) {
            image = MatToBufferedImage(frame);
            repaint();
        } else {
            System.out.println("Unable to read from camera");
        }
    }
}

The strange thing is, the camera is opened! The green light never turns on indicating that it's being used, but the VideoCapture object returns true for isOpened().

However, in that while loop, all it does is repeatedly print out the message "Unable to read from camera", indicating that camera.read(frame) returns false.

What am I doing wrong? I've been searching the internet but can't find anything.

answered 2017-11-09 21:12:50 -0600

supra56

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updated 2017-11-09 21:13:40 -0600

There are two missing are imread and waitKey.

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supra, out of luck here ;(

imread() and waitKey() are usually not available to java users

(though latest GSOC efforts resulted in a java highgui module, which mimicks the c++ functionality)

also, i think, that neither the drawing/gui code, nor using the java wrappers is the problem here, more a hardware / driver / install problem with the webcam used.

berak ( 2017-11-09 21:20:33 -0600 )edit

@supra56 can you be more specific?

lincolnb ( 2017-11-09 21:27:04 -0600 )edit

@berak. He hasn't mentioned java.

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 04:00:39 -0600 )edit

@supra56, there is a java tag, and the code is in java .... and post starts with:

I'm using the Java bindings

berak ( 2017-11-10 04:03:47 -0600 )edit

@lincolnb. My Apologized, I thought it was c++. The imread and waitKey isn't on java.

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 04:06:17 -0600 )edit

new VideoCapture(); to new VideoCapture(0);

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 05:58:29 -0600 )edit

This could be Mat frame = new Mat(); inside if/else condition block.

VideoCapture camera = new VideoCapture(0);
if(!camera.isOpened()){
    System.out.println("The camera could not be opened.");
}
else {
    Mat frame = new Mat();
    camera.read(frame); 
    while(true){
        if (camera.read(frame)){

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 06:17:24 -0600 )edit

Dont forget about his one camera.release();

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 06:18:40 -0600 )edit

@supra56 still doesn't work. Might be a driver issue -- any clue how to debug? camera.read() doesn't give descriptive errors.

lincolnb ( 2017-11-10 10:44:36 -0600 )edit

@lincolnb. Did you test webcam to see it is working or not? What's OS you have? And brand of webcam?

supra56 ( 2017-11-10 21:06:55 -0600 )edit

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