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Error in video writing tutorial

asked 2020-01-12 07:40:03 -0600

Gourav gravatar image

when i ran the code from video writing tutorial I got the followign error

[ERROR:0] global C:\opencv\source\opencv-4.1.2\opencv-4.1.2\modules\videoio\src\cap.cpp (392) open VIDEOIO(CV_IMAGES): raised OpenCV exception:

OpenCV(4.1.2) C:\opencv\source\opencv-4.1.2\opencv-4.1.2\modules\videoio\src\cap_images.cpp:253: error: (-5:Bad argument) CAP_IMAGES: can't find starting number (in the name of file): MegamindR.avi in function 'icvExtractPattern'
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answered 2020-01-12 07:47:08 -0600

berak gravatar image

updated 2020-01-14 03:14:57 -0600

it probably means:

you don't have opencv_videoio_ffmpeg412.dll on your path (this contains the actual video codecs).

since it could not find it, it tried to fall back to read an image sequence instead, and this lacked some pattern, like img%05d.png

remedy:

append the folder containing opencv_videoio_ffmpeg412.dll to your PATH env var.

(again, error is already reading the video, not writing)

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