Using DirectShow to capture frames and OpenCV to Process

Question

I have made two different solutions for Video-to-Image Capturing and was wondering if I could intertwine the best of both worlds. I am currently using DirectShow to load in an AVI file and capture images. However, DirectShow's lack of image processing capabilities and the need to make additional filters have stopped me dead in my tracks.

I then turned to OpenCV.

It has all the image processing functions I need, but it has trouble loading in the videos that the DirectShow solution was able to retrieve. Are there any tutorials online about this process or anything close to it? Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

Yes, here is a link to an article: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/DirectShow