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Not able to save video using cv2.VideoWriter(...) on Ubuntu 16.04

asked Jan 15 '18

prashant gravatar image

updated Jan 15 '18

After running below code I am getting a "output.avi" file of 5.7KB.Nothing is recorded from camera.

# https://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/doc/py_tutorials/py_gui/py_video_display/py_video_display.html
import numpy as np
import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi',fourcc, 20.0, (640,480))

while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    if ret==True:
        frame = cv2.flip(frame,0)

        # write the flipped frame
        out.write(frame)

        cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
            break
    else:
        break

# Release everything if job is finished
cap.release()
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Please help.

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Try to swap w and h in video writer constructor: (480, 640). Are you sure the frame returned by video capture has this size?

mshabunin gravatar imagemshabunin (Jan 15 '18)edit

@prashant - Maybe you should answer your own question. I learned something, so I'd rate it up.

sjhalayka gravatar imagesjhalayka (Jan 16 '18)edit

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answered Jan 15 '18

prashant gravatar image

Oh, you are right the webcam frame size is 1024, 1280. I used this

# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi',fourcc, 20.0, (int(cap.get(3)), int(cap.get(4))))

and video is saving now :) :) !!!. Thank you. But in website this code was given https://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/doc/...

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fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'DIB ') out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi',fourcc, 40.0, (640,480), True)

guangxv gravatar imageguangxv (Oct 15 '0)edit

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