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opencv read error:[h264 @ 0x8f915e0] error while decoding MB 53 20, bytestream -7

My configuration:

  ubuntu 16.04
  opencv 3.3.1
  gcc version 5.4.0 20160609
  ffmpeg version 3.4.2-1~16.04.york0

and I built opencv with:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python) -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/home/xxx/opencv_contrib/modules -D WITH_QT=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON -D WITH_IPP=ON -D WITH_OPENNI2=ON -D WITH_V4L=ON -D WITH_FFMPEG=ON -D WITH_GSTREAMER=OFF -D WITH_OPENMP=ON -D WITH_VTK=ON -D BUILD_opencv_java=OFF -D BUILD_opencv_python3=OFF -D WITH_CUDA=ON -D ENABLE_FAST_MATH=1 -D WITH_NVCUVID=ON -D CUDA_FAST_MATH=ON -D BUILD_opencv_cnn_3dobj=OFF -D FORCE_VTK=ON  -D WITH_CUBLAS=ON -D CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS="-D_FORCE_INLINES" -D WITH_GDAL=ON -D WITH_XINE=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -D BUILD_DOCS=ON -D BUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -D BUILD_TESTS=OFF  -D BUILD_opencv_dnn=OFF -D BUILD_PROTOBUF=OFF -D opencv_dnn_BUILD_TORCH_IMPORTER=OFF -D opencv_dnn_PERF_CAFFE=OFF -D opencv_dnn_PERF_CLCAFFE=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_dnn_modern=OFF -D CUDA_ARCH_BIN=6.1 ..

and use these python code to read and show:

import cv2
from com.xxx.cv.core.Image import Image

capture=cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://192.168.10.184:554/mpeg4?username=xxx&password=yyy")
while True:
    grabbed,content=capture.read()
    if grabbed:
        Image(content).show()
        doSomething()
    else:
        print "nothing grabbed.."

Everytime, after reading about 50 frames,it will give an error like:

[h264 @ 0x8f915e0] error while decoding MB 53 20, bytestream -7

then nothing can be grabbed further,and the strange thing is:

1,comment doSomething() or
2,keep doSomething() and recording the stream from same IPCamera,then run
  code against recorded video

both cases,code works fine,can anyone tell how to solve this problem?Thank in advance!

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Alex Luya Avatar asked Mar 12 '18 10:03

Alex Luya


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2 Answers

Let's first look at a simple sample program for reading RTSP

import cv2
cap=cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://admin:[email protected]")

ret,frame = cap.read()
while ret:
    ret,frame = cap.read()
    cv2.imshow("frame",frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
cap.release()

The frame value is the image of each frame. But if you add the recognition operation for each frame in the while code block, such as adding Tensorflow to recognize the small animals in it, such an error will be reported and the while loop will be interrupted due to this exception.

[h264 @ 0x55abeda05080] left block unavailable for requested intra mode
[h264 @ 0x55abeda05080] error while decoding MB 0 14, bytestream 104435

It turns out that FFMPEG Lib does not support H264 videos in the rtsp protocol, so the solution is to write two different threads to process the images of each frame separately, and then another thread to process the images of each frame.

The idea is as follows: use a queue, adopt a first-in-first-out strategy, start receiving data in one thread, and process frame-by-frame data in another thread

Solution code show as below:

import cv2
import queue
import time
import threading
q=queue.Queue()

def Receive():
    print("start Reveive")
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://admin:[email protected]")
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    q.put(frame)
    while ret:
        ret, frame = cap.read()
        q.put(frame)


def Display():
     print("Start Displaying")
     while True:
         if q.empty() !=True:
            frame=q.get()
            cv2.imshow("frame1", frame)
         if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
                break
            
if __name__=='__main__':
    p1=threading.Thread(target=Receive)
    p2 = threading.Thread(target=Display)
    p1.start()
    p2.start()

Receive is used as a thread for receiving data, and Display is displayed as a simple process.

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Ognjen Gojkovic Avatar answered Dec 26 '22 04:12

Ognjen Gojkovic


I am using a hikvision ip poe camera with opencv 3.4 and python3 on a system having ubuntu 16.04. Camera is streaming in h264 format.

Using RTSP i am streaming from camera using videocapture of the opencv and sometimes i am having the same problems "[h264 @ 0x8f915e0] error while decoding MB 43 20, bytestream -4"

This problem is created when you use the captured frames in the further processing and you create a delay in the pipeline while the rtsp is still streaming.

The solution is to put the capture on a different thread and the frames you use on another thread.

You will have something like in the same process using multithreading with python:

#thread1 

global frame 
frame = None
cap = cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://bla:[email protected]")

while True:
    ret,frame = cap.read()


#thread2

cv2.imshow("Current frame", frame)
cv2.waitKey(0)
# you can pass now the frame to your application for further processing
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Marius_I Avatar answered Dec 26 '22 04:12

Marius_I