How to turn a video into numpy array?

Question

I have a python script in the same folder as a video I want to convert to a numpy array. My video is called 'test.mp4'.

Within my script, I want to call someFunction('test.mp4') and get back a numpy array. The resulting numpy array should be a numpy array of images, where each image is a 3-d numpy array.

Does that make sense?

Thanks!

Answer 1

skvideo is a python package can be used to read video and stores into the multi-dimensional array.

import skvideo.io   videodata = skvideo.io.vread("video_file_name")   print(videodata.shape) 

For more details: http://www.scikit-video.org/stable/index.html and http://mllearners.blogspot.in/2018/01/scikit-video-skvideo-tutorial-for.html