/* * starter_video.cpp * * Created on: Nov 23, 2010 * Author: Ethan Rublee * * Modified on: April 17, 2013 * Author: Kevin Hughes * * A starter sample for using OpenCV VideoCapture with capture devices, video files or image sequences * easy as CV_PI right? */ #include <opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp> #include <opencv2/videoio/videoio.hpp> #include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> using namespace cv; using namespace std; //hide the local functions in an anon namespace namespace { void help(char** av) { cout << "The program captures frames from a video file, image sequence (01.jpg, 02.jpg ... 10.jpg) or camera connected to your computer." << endl << "Usage:\n" << av[0] << " <video file, image sequence or device number>" << endl << "q,Q,esc -- quit" << endl << "space -- save frame" << endl << endl << "\tTo capture from a camera pass the device number. To find the device number, try ls /dev/video*" << endl << "\texample: " << av[0] << " 0" << endl << "\tYou may also pass a video file instead of a device number" << endl << "\texample: " << av[0] << " video.avi" << endl << "\tYou can also pass the path to an image sequence and OpenCV will treat the sequence just like a video." << endl << "\texample: " << av[0] << " right%%02d.jpg" << endl; } int process(VideoCapture& capture) { int n = 0; char filename[200]; string window_name = "video | q or esc to quit"; cout << "press space to save a picture. q or esc to quit" << endl; namedWindow(window_name, WINDOW_KEEPRATIO); //resizable window; Mat frame; for (;;) { capture >> frame; if (frame.empty()) break; imshow(window_name, frame); char key = (char)waitKey(30); //delay N millis, usually long enough to display and capture input switch (key) { case 'q': case 'Q': case 27: //escape key return 0; case ' ': //Save an image sprintf(filename,"filename%.3d.jpg",n++); imwrite(filename,frame); cout << "Saved " << filename << endl; break; default: break; } } return 0; } } int main(int ac, char** av) { if (ac != 2) { help(av); return 1; } std::string arg = av[1]; VideoCapture capture(arg); //try to open string, this will attempt to open it as a video file or image sequence if (!capture.isOpened()) //if this fails, try to open as a video camera, through the use of an integer param capture.open(atoi(arg.c_str())); if (!capture.isOpened()) { cerr << "Failed to open the video device, video file or image sequence!\n" << endl; help(av); return 1; } return process(capture); }