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Hi All, I'm kind of new to opencv and would very much appreciate your help on solving the following problem: (I have Visual studio C++ 2010 and OpenCV 2.4.4 installed.)

I am trying to open a video from a file using captureVideo(filename). When I do this I can read the correct frame rate and a resolution of my video file (also the type of a codec). When I use imshow to show the first frame the resolution of my window is correct, but the image is all grey. When I enter the while(1) loop and try to get a new frame, the read resolution is [something x 0], the frame rate is 0 and the codec is not given. I have tried this for both release and debug modes (32bits) with exactly the same effect. However, when I use a very similar code to capture video from a webcam everything works fine.

int TipTracking(char directive[], char filename[]);

using namespace std; using namespace cv;

int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) { TipTracking("-v","filename"); }

int TipTracking(char directive[], char filename[]) {

cv::VideoCapture captureVideo;              // declares video device _FILE
cv::Mat captureFrame, MatEdges;             // declares frame matrices

if(directive == "-v" )
{
    VideoCapture captureVideo(              // open the video file for reading
        filename
        );              

    if (!captureVideo.isOpened())           // if not success, exit program
    {
        cout << "Cannot open the video file" << endl;   // command line text
        return -1;
    }

    fps = captureVideo.get(
        CV_CAP_PROP_FPS     // get the frames per seconds of the video
        );  

    bSuccess = captureVideo.read(           // read a new frame from video
        captureFrame
        );      

    if (false == bSuccess)              // if not success, exit the program
    {
        cout << "Cannot read from the video file" << endl;
        return -1;
    }

    FrameSize = Size(               // declare FrameSize as a size of a frame
        captureFrame.cols, 
        captureFrame.rows
        );

    codecType = captureVideo.get(           // Get Codec Type- Int form
        CV_CAP_PROP_FOURCC
        );     

    char codecType_char [] = {          // Transform from int to char via Bitwise operators
        (char)(codecType & 0XFF) , 
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF00) >> 8),
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF0000) >> 16),
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF000000) >> 24), 
        0
    };


    cout << "\n" << endl;
    cout << "Video source: FILE" << endl;
    cout << "Frame per seconds : " << fps << endl;
    cout << "Frame size (rows x cols): " << FrameSize << endl;
    cout << "Codec type: " << codecType_char << endl;

    imshow(         // show the image (the image window is in correct resolution but all gray only)
        "outputCapture", 
        captureFrame
        );
}

cout << "Press ENTER to continue..." << endl;
std::cin.get();

while(1)
{

    bSuccess = captureVideo.read(       // read a new frame from video
        captureFrame
        ); 


    fps = captureVideo.get(
        CV_CAP_PROP_FPS         //get the frames per seconds of the video
        );

    FrameSize = Size(           // declare FrameSize as a size of a frame
        captureFrame.cols, 
        captureFrame.rows
        );

    codecType = captureVideo.get(           // Get Codec Type- Int form
        CV_CAP_PROP_FOURCC
        );     

    char codecType_char [] = {          // Transform from int to char via Bitwise operators
        (char)(codecType & 0XFF) , 
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF00) >> 8),
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF0000) >> 16),
        (char)((codecType & 0XFF000000) >> 24), 
        0
    };

    cout << string(1, '\n');
    cout << "\n" << endl;
    cout << "Video source: FILE" << endl;
    cout << "Frame per seconds : " << fps << endl;
    cout << "Frame size (rows x cols): " << FrameSize << endl;
    cout << "Codec type: " << codecType_char << endl;

    imshow(                     // show the image
        "outputCapture", 
        captureFrame
        );
    waitKey(100);                   //pause for 100ms
}
return 0;

}