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that "choose a codec" window will only appear on windows, and also it will let you only use the deprecated VFW graph.

(there's nothing wrong with your install, the docs seem to be misleading)

if you need something like a "default" fourcc, choose "MJPG", and a ".avi" file extension

(which is supplied from opencv core, and thus does not rely on ffmpeg or gstreamer support)

that "choose a codec" window will only appear on windows, and also it will let you only use the deprecated VFW graph.

(there's nothing wrong with your install, the docs seem to be misleading)

if you need something like a "default" fourcc, choose "MJPG", VideoCapture::fourcc("MJPG"), and a ".avi" .avi file extension

(which extension, which is supplied from opencv core, and thus does not rely on ffmpeg or gstreamer support)support

that "choose a codec" window will only appear on windows, and also it will let you only use the deprecated VFW graph.

(there's nothing wrong with your install, the docs seem to be misleading)

if you need something like a "default" fourcc, choose VideoCapture::fourcc("MJPG")VideoCapture::fourcc('M','J','P','G'), and a .avi file extension, which is supplied from opencv core, and thus does not rely on ffmpeg or gstreamer support