Can a program capture images even if it is not ran manually [closed]

asked 2017-06-20 11:10:34 -0600

Gabdev gravatar image

updated 2017-06-21 03:21:39 -0600

I have a C++ program that is launched at boot as a service. It performs image processing on the output of a USB camera thanks to OpenCV. I would like to save images corresponding to what the camera captures before the image processing. To achieve this, I'm calling imwrite() in my code. Unfortunately I only get the screenshots when the program is ran manually in the terminal: as soon as I enable it as a service running at startup, the images are not generated anymore. Do you know why that occurs and how I could get rid of this problem?

EDIT - Problem solved

That was not a matter of OpenCV at all.

Actually I was specifying a relative path to imwrite() instead of an absolute one. I guess I thought that even though my program ran as a service, the working directory would still be the one where the executable is located. Hence the solution to my problem was to specify an absolute path to imwrite().

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OS, opencv version and compiler ?

LBerger gravatar imageLBerger ( 2017-06-20 11:31:54 -0600 )edit
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OS is Ubuntu MATE with kernel 3.10, OpenCV version is 3.1.0, compiler is CMake 3.5.

Gabdev gravatar imageGabdev ( 2017-06-20 11:41:28 -0600 )edit

I don't know linux but cmake is not a compiler

LBerger gravatar imageLBerger ( 2017-06-20 13:00:34 -0600 )edit

My bad! Compiler is gcc 5.4.0.

Gabdev gravatar imageGabdev ( 2017-06-21 02:59:00 -0600 )edit
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