im trying to save a video i get from a facetime camera on mac, i manage to show the video and flip it, but when i try to save it i get no file at all, and it wont show me any error, it did use to show me an error CAP_IMAGES: can’t find starting number (in the name of file): that it was a codec error related, i installed ffmpeg as sugested on other post and i did set the codec to mp4v, still i cant write the file, i do want to write it to a file and then broadcast via web (security camera)
any idea what might be wrong? i paste my code below, thanks
here is the code im using
import cv2
import numpy as np
#import PyQt5
#from matplotlib import pyplot as pl
#hog = cv2.HOGDescriptor()
#hog.setSVMDetector(cv2.HOGDescriptor_getDefaultPeopleDetector())
#cv2.startWindowThread()
def inc_brig(cuadro, value):
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(cuadro, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
h,s,v = cv2.split(hsv)
lim = 255 - value
v[v > lim ] = 255
v[v <= lim] += value
#cv2.add(hsv[:,:,2], value, hsv[:,:,2])
final_hsv = cv2.merge((h,s,v))
cuadro = cv2.cvtColor(final_hsv, cv2.COLOR_HSV2BGR)
return cuadro
i = 0
for i in range(4):
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(i) # start the camera
if not cap:
pass
else:
print('found at ' + str(i))
break
#check if the camera has been initialized
if cap.isOpened():
pass
else:
cap.open()
videocodec = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'mp4v')
salida = cv2.VideoWriter('prueba_video.mp4', videocodec, 24.0, (int(cap.get(3)), int(cap.get(4)) ) )#(int(cap.get(3)), int((cap.get(4)))))
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
if frame is None:
print ('no frame')
else:
if ret == True:
frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
frame = inc_brig(frame, 40)
#detect people
# boxes, weight = hog.detectMultiScale(frame, winStride=(8,8))
#return coordinates for people boxes
# boxes = np.array( [[x, y, x+w, y+h] for (x, y, w, h) in boxes ])
# for (xA, yA, xB, yB) in boxes:
#display boxes in color picture
# cv2.rectangle(frame, (xA, yA), (xB, yB), (255,0,0), 2)
#frame = cv2.line(frame,(200,20),(511,511),(220,0,0),5) # draw lines
#fuente = cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX
#cv2.putText(frame,'Prueba motherfucker', (300,90), fuente, 1, (255,255,255), 2, cv2.LINE_AA)
#frame = cv2.rectangle(frame, (300,100), (800,600), (200,0,0), 3)
salida.write(frame) #write to file
cv2.imshow('Camara opencv', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
else:
break
cap.release()
salida.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# show image using matplot
# imagen = cv2.imread('Test_Xv.jpg',0)
# pl.imshow(imagen, cmap='gray', interpolation='bicubic')
# pl.xticks([]), pl.yticks([])
# pl.show()
# show image using standart opencv window
# cv2.imshow('image',imagen)
# k = cv2.waitKey(0) & 0xFF
# if k == 27:
# cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# else:
# cv2.imwrite('Test_Gray.jpg', imagen)
# cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Edit1: i did follow Christof advice and be more especific when opening the device, still i get the same behaivior i would try also using a debugger and see where the problem is, below is my new code
#check if the camera has been initialized
i = 0
for i in range(4):
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(i) # start the camera
if cap.isOpened():
print('found at ' + str(i))
break
if cap.isOpened() == False:
cap.open()
print('opening camera ' + str(i))
break
Edit2: simplyfied the code and set only first device i only get 0 anyway, heres my code using if not cap.isOpened()
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) # start the camera
videocodec = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'MP4V')
salida = cv2.VideoWriter('prueba_video.mp4', videocodec, 24.0, (int(cap.get(3)), int(cap.get(4)) ) )#(int(cap.get(3)), int((cap.get(4)))))
if not cap.isOpened():
print('not open')
else:
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
if frame is None:
print ('no frame')
else:
if ret == True:
frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
frame = inc_brig(frame, 30)
salida.write(frame) #write to file
cv2.imshow('Camara opencv', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
else:
break
cap.release()
salida.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Edit3: posting the general config for opencv on my machine, i did installed using pip command from terminal but before that i updated homebrew, for some reason homebrew erased all previuos stuff i had installed via pip so i had to reinstall opencv, wheels and all other stuff, im posting my modules as well
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Timestamp: 2022-08-16T23:32:48Z
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Configuration: Release
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requested: DETECT
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requested: SSE4_1 SSE4_2 AVX FP16 AVX2 AVX512_SKX
SSE4_2 (1 files): + POPCNT SSE4_2
FP16 (0 files): + POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 AVX
AVX (4 files): + POPCNT SSE4_2 AVX
AVX2 (31 files): + POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2
AVX512_SKX (5 files): + POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2 AVX_512F AVX512_COMMON AVX512_SKX
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this are the modules installed by python via terminal
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Answer
Instantiation of a VideoWriter appears to have failed. You say salida.isOpened() returns False.
VideoWriter usually requires that OpenCV was built with support for ffmpeg. Other backends, such as AVFoundation, commonly are only used to access video cameras.
Since your OpenCV was built without support for ffmpeg, your only option is to use the .avi video container format and the MJPG codec/fourcc. Those two are built into OpenCV and always available.
If you haven’t already got OpenCV for Python from PyPI, via the opencv-python package (or one of its variants), then you should try that. It’s the official OpenCV package for Python.
If you are willing to build OpenCV yourself, you can enable and disable features, and third-party dependencies, in the CMake configuration stage.