Guys I am having problem on overlaying my video to webcam. I can open webcam without any issues or errors but my video is not being showed. I am trying to play my video in specific x-y coordinates.I take most of my code from an other stackoverflow question but I cannot find it know so that I cannot mention it here.
So can someone help me to solve this? Why my video is not being played in my webcam? I have following code:
from os.path import sep import cv2 as cv2 # load the overlay image. size should be smaller than video frame size img = cv2.VideoCapture('photos' + sep + 'Baslksz-3.mp4') # Get Image dimensions width = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 150) # float `width` height = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 150) # Start Capture cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0 + cv2.CAP_DSHOW) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 1920) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 1080) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS, 30) frame_vid = img.read() # Decide X,Y location of overlay image inside video frame. # following should be valid: # * image dimensions must be smaller than frame dimensions # * x+img_width <= frame_width # * y+img_height <= frame_height # otherwise you can resize image as part of your code if required x = 50 y = 50 while(True): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read() # add image to frame frame[ y:y+width , x:x+height ] = img ''' tr = 0.3 # transparency between 0-1, show camera if 0 frame = ((1-tr) * frame.astype(np.float) + tr * frame_vid.astype(np.float)).astype(np.uint8) ''' # Display the resulting frame cv2.imshow('frame',frame) # Exit if ESC key is pressed if cv2.waitKey(20) & 0xFF == 27: break cap.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows()
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Answer
Let me start analyzing the code step-by-step.
- Step #1
img = cv2.VideoCapture('photos' + sep + 'Baslksz-3.mp4')
The above code look fine, but it would be better if you give as a string name
video_name = 'photos' + sep + 'Baslksz-3.mp4' img = cv2.VideoCapture(video_name)
- Step #2
# Get Image dimensions width = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 150) # float `width` height = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 150)
Now what are width
and height
variables?
# Get Image dimensions width = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 150) # float `width` height = img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 150) print(width) print(height)
Result is:
False False
It seems you want to set width
and height
to the dimension (150, 150)
. It would be better if you initialize them separately
# Get Image dimensions img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 150) # float `width` img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 150) width = 150 height = 150
- Step #3
# Start Capture cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0 + cv2.CAP_DSHOW) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 1920) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 1080) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS, 30)
Why do you initialize cap
variable two-times?
- Step #4
frame_vid = img.read()
Why do you initialize frame_vid
you did not use anywhere in the code?
- Step #5
while (True): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read() frame[y:y + width, x:x + height] = img
The above code is not making any sense, you want to display your video as long as your webcam open. You also did not check whether the current webcam frame returns or not. You also set VideoCapture
variable to the array?
while cap.isOpened(): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read()
Now you are getting frames, as long as your webcam is open, then you need to check whether the webcam frame returns. If the webcam frame returns then you need to start reading the video frames. If the video frame returns successfully resize the video frame to (width, height)
then set it to the frame
.
while cap.isOpened(): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read() if ret: ret_video, frame_video = img.read() if ret_video: # add image to frame frame_video = cv2.resize(frame_video, (width, height)) frame[y:y + width, x:x + height] = frame_video
- Step #6
Make sure close img
variable after the execution.
img.release() cap.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Please change img
variable to something that makes sense. Like rename the img
variable to video_capture
and cap
to the webcam_capture
.
When video stops then webcam stacks. But I want to continue infinitive. and video should start again. But video does not starts from beggining.and webcam freezes
Update
This issue was mentioned in the Playback loop option in OpenCV videos
If you look at the answer, the problem was solved by counting the video frames. When video frames equal to the capture frame count (CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT
) set to counter and CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT
to 0.
First initialize the frame counter.
video_frame_counter = 0
and when webcam opens, get the frame. If frame returns, increase the counter by 1.
while cap.isOpened(): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read() if ret: ret_video, frame_video = img.read() video_frame_counter += 1
If counter equals to the capture class frame count, then initialize both variable to 0.
if video_frame_counter == img.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT): video_frame_counter = 0 img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES, 0)
Code:
from os.path import sep import cv2 as cv2 # load the overlay image. size should be smaller than video frame size # img = cv2.VideoCapture('photos' + sep + 'Baslksz-3.mp4') video_name = 'photos' + sep + 'Baslksz-3.mp4' img = cv2.VideoCapture(video_name) # Get Image dimensions img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 150) # float `width` img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 150) width = 150 height = 150 # Start Capture cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) # cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0 + cv2.CAP_DSHOW) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 1920) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 1080) cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS, 30) # frame_vid = img.read() # Decide X,Y location of overlay image inside video frame. # following should be valid: # * image dimensions must be smaller than frame dimensions # * x+img_width <= frame_width # * y+img_height <= frame_height # otherwise you can resize image as part of your code if required x = 50 y = 50 video_frame_counter = 0 while cap.isOpened(): # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = cap.read() if ret: ret_video, frame_video = img.read() video_frame_counter += 1 if video_frame_counter == img.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT): video_frame_counter = 0 img.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES, 0) if ret_video: # add image to frame frame_video = cv2.resize(frame_video, (width, height)) frame[y:y + width, x:x + height] = frame_video ''' tr = 0.3 # transparency between 0-1, show camera if 0 frame = ((1-tr) * frame.astype(np.float) + tr * frame_vid.astype(np.float)).astype(np.uint8) ''' # Display the resulting frame cv2.imshow('frame', frame) # Exit if ESC key is pressed if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == 27: break img.release() cap.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows()