Writing AVI files in OpenCV

Question

There example on the net and code given in Learn OpenCv,Orielly.

After many attempts the out.avi file is written with 0 bytes. I wonder where i went wrong.

The following are the code i used...

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    CvCapture* input = cvCaptureFromFile(argv[1]);
    IplImage* image = cvRetrieveFrame(input);

    if (!image) {
        printf("Unable to read input");
        return 0;
    }


    CvSize imgSize;
    imgSize.width = image->width;
    imgSize.height = image->height;



    double fps = cvGetCaptureProperty(
            input,
            CV_CAP_PROP_FPS
            );

    CvVideoWriter *writer = cvCreateVideoWriter(
            "out.avi",
            CV_FOURCC('M', 'J', 'P', 'G'),
            fps,
            imgSize
            );


    IplImage* colourImage;
    //Keep processing frames...
    for (;;) {

        //Get a frame from the input video.
        colourImage = cvQueryFrame(input);
        cvWriteFrame(writer, colourImage);

    }

    cvReleaseVideoWriter(&writer);
    cvReleaseCapture(&input);

}

Answer 1

hey This code works in DevC++ try it:

  #include<cv.h>
  #include<highgui.h>
  #include<cvaux.h>
  #include<cvcam.h>
  #include<cxcore.h>

  int main()
  {
  CvVideoWriter *writer = 0;
  int isColor = 1;
  int fps     = 5;  // or 30
  int frameW  = 1600; //640; // 744 for firewire cameras
  int frameH  = 1200; //480; // 480 for firewire cameras
  //writer=cvCreateVideoWriter("out.avi",CV_FOURCC('P','I','M','1'),
  //                           fps,cvSize(frameW,frameH),isColor);
  writer=cvCreateVideoWriter("out.avi",-1,
                       fps,cvSize(frameW,frameH),isColor);
  IplImage* img = 0; 

  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_0.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);      // add the frame to the file
  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_1.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);
  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_2.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);
  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_3.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);
  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_4.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);
  img=cvLoadImage("CapturedFrame_5.jpg");
  cvWriteFrame(writer,img);

  cvReleaseVideoWriter(&writer);
  return 0;
  }

I compiled it and ran it, works fine. (I did not see above whether you got your answer or not .. but for this particular thing I worked very hard earlier and suddenly I just did it, from some code snippets.)

Answer 2

My bet is that cvCreateVideoWriter returns NULL. Just step through it to see if it's true. In that case, the problem is probably with CV_FOURCC(..) which doesnt find the codec and force a return 0;

you can try using -1 instead of CV_FOURCC. There is gonna be a prompt during runtime for you to chose the appropriate codec