# Capture Video from Camera
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while(True):
# Capture frame-by-frame
ret, frame = cap.read()
# Out operations on the frame come here
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('frame', gray)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break# When everything done, release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# Play Video from File
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('output.avi')
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
cv2.imshow('frame', gray)
if cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
# Saving a Video
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object# FourCC is a 4-byte code used to specify the video codec.# In Fedora: DIVX, XVID, MJPG, X264, WMV1, WMV2. # (XVID is more preferable. MJPG results in high size video. # X264 gives very small size video)
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi', fourcc, 20.0, (640,480))
while(cap.isOpened()):
ret, frame = cap.read()
if ret == True:
frame = cv2.flip(frame,1)
# write the flipped frame
out.write(frame)
cv2.imshow('frame', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
breakelse:
break# Release everything if job is finished
cap.release()
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()