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I'm testing out some code I found to capture the web cam video stream, it's quite different from what I used to do for achieving the same but it's supposed to be the appropiate way for doing it.

This is the way I used to do:

CvCapture* capture;
IplImage* frame = 0;

while (true)
{
    //Read the video stream
    capture = cvCaptureFromCAM(1);
    if (! capture) break;
    frame = cvQueryFrame(capture);

    //Create a window to display 
    cvNamedWindow("Te estas viendo", CV_WINDOW_NORMAL|CV_WINDOW_KEEPRATIO);

    cvShowImage("Te estas viendo", frame);

    int c = cvWaitKey(10);
    if ( (char)c == 27 ) break;
}

//Clean and release resources
cvReleaseImage(&frame);
cvDestroyAllWindows();

This is the testing code:

VideoCapture camera;
camera.open(cameraNumber);
if (!camera.isOpened()) {
    cerr << "ERROR: Could not access the camera or video!" <<endl;
    exit(1);
}

while (true) {
    // Grab the next camera frame.
    cv::Mat cameraFrame;
    camera >> cameraFrame;
    if (cameraFrame.empty()) {
    std::cerr << "ERROR: Couldn't grab a camera frame." <<
    std::endl;
    exit(1);
}

I'm not getting the first error line, so it's supposed to be opening the camera, but always failing at grabbing camera frames.

I'm testing out some code I found to capture the web cam video stream, it's quite different from what I used to do for achieving the same but it's supposed to be the appropiate way for doing it.

This is the way I used to do:

CvCapture* capture;
IplImage* frame = 0;

while (true)
{
    //Read the video stream
    capture = cvCaptureFromCAM(1);
    if (! capture) break;
    frame = cvQueryFrame(capture);

    //Create a window to display 
    cvNamedWindow("Te estas viendo", CV_WINDOW_NORMAL|CV_WINDOW_KEEPRATIO);

    cvShowImage("Te estas viendo", frame);

    int c = cvWaitKey(10);
    if ( (char)c == 27 ) break;
}

//Clean and release resources
cvReleaseImage(&frame);
cvDestroyAllWindows();

This is the testing code:

VideoCapture camera;
camera.open(cameraNumber);
namedWindow("output");

if (!camera.isOpened()) {
    cerr << "ERROR: Could not access the camera or video!" <<endl;
    exit(1);
return -1;
}

while (true) {
    // Grab the next camera frame.
    cv::Mat cameraFrame;
    camera >> cameraFrame;
    if (cameraFrame.empty()) {
     std::cerr << "ERROR: Couldn't grab a camera frame." <<
     std::endl;
    exit(1);
    return -1;
    }
    imshow("output", cameraFrame);
    waitKey(10);
}

I'm not getting the first error line, so it's supposed to be opening the camera, but always failing at grabbing camera frames.