Lucas Kanade feature tracker

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I've built a new project using the file "lktdemo.cpp" provided in OpenCV folder. It builds successfully but when I run it, it uses the camera of my laptop. The camera of my laptop is ON but 'm unable to record the video as I don't understand its recording. How do I force it to read the video file? At what point, the changes should be made?

when I change the code in the following way, it displays a message that "could not initialize capturing"

Code:

#include "opencv2/video/tracking.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/videoio/videoio.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"

#include <iostream>
#include <ctype.h>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

static void help()
{
    // print a welcome message, and the OpenCV version
    cout << "\nThis is a demo of Lukas-Kanade optical flow lkdemo(),\n"
            "Using OpenCV version " << CV_VERSION << endl;
    cout << "\nIt uses camera by default, but you can provide a path to video as an argument.\n";
    cout << "\nHot keys: \n"
            "\tESC - quit the program\n"
            "\tr - auto-initialize tracking\n"
            "\tc - delete all the points\n"
            "\tn - switch the \"night\" mode on/off\n"
            "To add/remove a feature point click it\n" << endl;
}

Point2f point;
bool addRemovePt = false;

static void onMouse( int event, int x, int y, int /*flags*/, void* /*param*/ )
{
    if( event == EVENT_LBUTTONDOWN )
    {
        point = Point2f((float)x, (float)y);
        addRemovePt = true;
    }
}

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    help();

    VideoCapture cap;
    TermCriteria termcrit(TermCriteria::COUNT|TermCriteria::EPS,20,0.03);
    Size subPixWinSize(10,10), winSize(31,31);

    const int MAX_COUNT = 500;
    bool needToInit = false;
    bool nightMode = false;

    string filename = "seanpenn.avi";

    if( argc == 1 || (argc == 2 && strlen(argv[1]) == 1 && isdigit(argv[1][0])))
        //cap.open(argc == 2 ? argv[1][0] - '0' : 0);
        cap.open(filename);
    else if( argc == 2 )
        //cap.open(argv[1]);
        cap.open(filename);

    if( !cap.isOpened() )
    {
        cout << "Could not initialize capturing...\n";
        return 0;
    }

    namedWindow( "LK Demo", 1 );
    setMouseCallback( "LK Demo", onMouse, 0 );

    Mat gray, prevGray, image, frame;
    vector<Point2f> points[2];

    for(;;)
    {
        cap >> frame;
        if( frame.empty() )
            break;

        frame.copyTo(image);
        cvtColor(image, gray, COLOR_BGR2GRAY);

        if( nightMode )
            image = Scalar::all(0);

        if( needToInit )
        {
            // automatic initialization
            goodFeaturesToTrack(gray, points[1], MAX_COUNT, 0.01, 10, Mat(), 3, 0, 0.04);
            cornerSubPix(gray, points[1], subPixWinSize, Size(-1,-1), termcrit);
            addRemovePt = false;
        }
        else if( !points[0].empty() )
        {
            vector<uchar> status;
            vector<float> err;
            if(prevGray.empty())
                gray.copyTo(prevGray);
            calcOpticalFlowPyrLK(prevGray, gray, points[0], points[1], status, err, winSize,
                                 3, termcrit, 0, 0.001);
            size_t i, k;
            for( i = k = 0; i < points[1].size(); i++ )
            {
                if( addRemovePt )
                {
                    if( norm(point - points[1][i]) <= 5 )
                    {
                        addRemovePt = false;
                        continue;
                    }
                }

                if( !status[i] )
                    continue;

                points[1][k++] = points[1][i];
                circle( image, points[1][i], 3, Scalar(0,255,0), -1, 8);
            }
            points[1].resize(k);
        }

        if( addRemovePt && points[1].size() < (size_t)MAX_COUNT )
        {
            vector<Point2f> tmp;
            tmp.push_back(point);
            cornerSubPix( gray, tmp, winSize, Size(-1,-1), termcrit);
            points[1].push_back(tmp[0]);
            addRemovePt = false;
        }

        needToInit = false;
        imshow("LK Demo", image);

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