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Force opencv to use a particular decoder

asked 2013-03-15 04:17:45 -0600

Hello, everybody! I have a problem. When I keep my application running, after some hours of running it crashes and in log I see errors from h264 decoder. Can I get a better (more stable) h264-decoder from somewhere and force opencv to use it?

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answered 2013-03-15 05:11:18 -0600

You can basically use every decoder by using the specified fourcc code. You can choose them from this list:

http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php

Be sure to have the decoder installed on your system, and it will work without problem. However, when you say your application crashes after some time, I would consider looking into memory leaks. Possibly you are allocating memory somewhere and not manually deallocating it anymore, slurping up your memory bit by bit.

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I think I haven't posed my question very clearly. I have h264 decoder installed. But, as I said, current decoder crashes after some time. It can be a memory leak, but memory looks fine in task manager. I think, it has to do with decoder implementation. As I said, if I get another h264 decoder, for example from Elecard or from Main-Concept, can I force OpenCV to use the new h264 decoder?

TVMSiber gravatar imageTVMSiber ( 2013-03-15 06:12:29 -0600 )edit
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YESH, like I said, if the decoder is supported by the fourcc library, since you have to specify which decoder you want to use in the command for video writing :

CV_FOURCC('D','I','V','4'), in this case I have added the MPEG4 DIVX decoder because H264 gave problems on my windows machine also.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2013-03-15 06:39:24 -0600 )edit
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answered 2013-11-29 08:34:42 -0600

a_w_baker gravatar image

I am facing a similar issue. It seems that if you install a different set of codec then the machine will use the different set. This is my experience. The issue that I seem to have is that the different set is not always found and so my code will intermittently crap out on different formats (e.g., MP4).

I believe that using the fourcc function is for encoding and not decoding.

If you solved the problem would you share your solution.

Thank you,

Anthony

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