Given its link, I'd like to capture an online video (say from YouTube) for further processing without downloading it on the disk. What I mean by this is that I'd like to load it directly to memory whenever possible. According to these links:
http://answers.opencv.org/question/24012/reading-video-stream-from-ip-camera-in-opencv-java/#24013
http://answers.opencv.org/question/24154/how-to-using-opencv-api-get-web-video-stream/#24156
http://answers.opencv.org/question/133/how-do-i-access-an-ip-camera/
https://pypi.org/project/pafy/
it should be doable. My attempt looks like this:
import cv2
import pafy
vid = pafy.new("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuELiw8tbx8")
vid_cap = cv2.VideoCapture()
vid_cap.open(vid.getbest(preftype="webm").url)
However it fails with an error
(python:12925): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:48:56.168: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
False
How can I achieve my goal using python?
Click the Video Trim icon, which is the icon of a photo with a pencil at the top-center. Drag the left guide to the place you want your clip to begin, and the right guide to where you want your clip to end. Click Save as at the top. Choose a saving location (and name, if you want) and click Save.
You can achieve this by using youtube-dl
and ffmpeg
:
youtube-dl
.sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
ffmpeg
with HTTPS support. You can do this by turning on the --enable-gnutls
option.Once the installations are complete, it's time to test the youtube-dl
in terminal. We'll be using this youtube video for testing.
First we get the list of formats available for this video:
youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECa3bAFAYk
Select a format code
of your choice. I want the 144p resolution so I select 160.
Next we get the video url for our format of choice by:
youtube-dl --format 160 --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECa3bAFAYk
https://r3---sn-4g5e6nz7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?clen=184077&aitags=133%2C134%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C278&fvip=3&requiressl=yes&signature=5D21FFD906226C7680B26ACEF996B78B6A31F7C9.31B1115DB13F096AA5968DB2838E22A0D6A2EDCB&source=youtube&mn=sn-4g5e6nz7%2Csn-h0jeen7y&xtags=tx%3D9486108&itag=160&mime=video%2Fmp4&mt=1529091799&ms=au%2Conr&ei=XxckW-73GNCogQfqrryQAg&expire=1529113535&mm=31%2C26&c=WEB&keepalive=yes&id=o-AJExEG49WtIUkrF7OikaaGBCfKntDl75xCoO5_9cL-eP&ip=95.91.202.147&sparams=aitags%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cxtags%2Cexpire&key=yt6&lmt=1526699176943888&dur=25.375&pl=22&gir=yes&mv=m&initcwndbps=1155000&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes
Finally we can play this video url in either ffplay
or vlc
. But instead of copying and pasting, we can do this in one command:
ffplay -i $(youtube-dl --format 160 --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECa3bAFAYk)
Now that we have confirmed that youtube-dl
and ffmpeg
works, we can write a Python script to process the frames in OpenCV. See this link for more Python options.
import cv2
import numpy as np
import youtube_dl
if __name__ == '__main__':
video_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECa3bAFAYkq'
ydl_opts = {}
# create youtube-dl object
ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)
# set video url, extract video information
info_dict = ydl.extract_info(video_url, download=False)
# get video formats available
formats = info_dict.get('formats',None)
for f in formats:
# I want the lowest resolution, so I set resolution as 144p
if f.get('format_note',None) == '144p':
#get the video url
url = f.get('url',None)
# open url with opencv
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(url)
# check if url was opened
if not cap.isOpened():
print('video not opened')
exit(-1)
while True:
# read frame
ret, frame = cap.read()
# check if frame is empty
if not ret:
break
# display frame
cv2.imshow('frame', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(30)&0xFF == ord('q'):
break
# release VideoCapture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
First of all Update youtube-dl
using the command pip install -U youtube-dl
Then use my VidGear
Python Library, then automates the pipelining of YouTube Video using its URL address only. Here's a complete python example:
v0.1.9
below:# import libraries
from vidgear.gears import CamGear
import cv2
stream = CamGear(source='https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ', y_tube = True, logging=True).start() # YouTube Video URL as input
# infinite loop
while True:
frame = stream.read()
# read frames
# check if frame is None
if frame is None:
#if True break the infinite loop
break
# do something with frame here
cv2.imshow("Output Frame", frame)
# Show output window
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
# check for 'q' key-press
if key == ord("q"):
#if 'q' key-pressed break out
break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# close output window
# safely close video stream.
stream.stop()
v0.2.0
and above: (y_tube
changed to stream_mode
)
# import libraries
from vidgear.gears import CamGear
import cv2
stream = CamGear(source='https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ', stream_mode = True, logging=True).start() # YouTube Video URL as input
# infinite loop
while True:
frame = stream.read()
# read frames
# check if frame is None
if frame is None:
#if True break the infinite loop
break
# do something with frame here
cv2.imshow("Output Frame", frame)
# Show output window
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
# check for 'q' key-press
if key == ord("q"):
#if 'q' key-pressed break out
break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# close output window
# safely close video stream.
stream.stop()
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