Recording from imshow/matrix, not from webcam

asked 2019-12-09 02:49:39 -0600

Vizier87
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updated 2019-12-10 00:46:07 -0600

Hi guys, hit a snag on this one. I'm trying to make the simplest recording from a video feed in imshow (Mat current_frame), not from a webcam.

Basically I'm trying to record what happens to a feed in an imshow.

So in my main function, I invoke the following to create the video folder:

VideoWriter cap1("C:\\Users\\Bla3\\Combined.avi", VideoWriter::fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G'), 5, Size(CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT), true);

And when I slide a trackbar in my while(1) routine to start recording like this:

if (RecState == 1) {
                        cap1.write(current_frame);
                    }

Should that already do the trick? Am I mising something here?

Thanks.

Edit: In short, what is the simplest code to just record an imshow without using VideoCapture?

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Did you try it? What is your problem?

kbarni ( 2019-12-09 08:24:21 -0600 )edit

Yeah. The video file does not play, which I believe is due to the write() not working as intended. Technically, those two lines should be enough, right? The current_frame shows nicely with imshow if it's relevant.

Vizier87 ( 2019-12-09 21:00:56 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-12-10 02:05:27 -0600

berak
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updated 2019-12-10 02:10:15 -0600

Size(CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT) -- that's for sure wrong, as it expands to Size(3,4) ;)

those constants are for the VideoCapture, and you don't even have one.

you need to choose the desired Video size, like:

Size frameSize(640, 480);
VideoWriter writer("C:\\Users\\Bla3\\Combined.avi", VideoWriter::fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G'), 5, frameSize , true);

and in the loop, resize the images to that (since your images may have arbitrary sizes):

resize(img, img, frameSize);
writer.write(img);

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Thanks berak. That did the job for me.

By the way I have a slightly related issue:

Right now my code, since the VideoWriter function has to be defined out of the while loop, means it will be generated even if I didn't want to record any.

I wanted it to be conditional recording, but an "if" function like follows:

if (RecState == 1) {

            //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            // Create video for saving ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
            Size frameSize(horizontal * 0.3, vertical * 0.4);
            VideoWriter video("C:\\Users\\bla3.avi",
                cv::VideoWriter::fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G'), 5, frameSize, true);
            /////////////////////////

This snippet will just override the previous file. Any thoughts?

Vizier87 ( 2019-12-12 01:37:55 -0600 )edit

generate a filename ;)

int counter = 0;
...
string name = cv::format("my_%d.avi", counter++);

berak ( 2019-12-12 01:54:23 -0600 )edit

Wouldn't that create a lot of files though? I just wanted it to be like, if I slide a trackbar to 1, it'll create one file on the desktop, and start recording. If I slide it back to 0, it stops, and voila the video can be released.

Vizier87 ( 2019-12-12 01:58:18 -0600 )edit

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