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Sleep for milliseconds

I know the POSIX sleep(x) function makes the program sleep for x seconds. Is there a function to make the program sleep for x milliseconds in C++?
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Pipe opencv images to ffmpeg using python

How can I pipe openCV images to ffmpeg (running ffmpeg as a subprocess)? (I am using spyder/anaconda) I am reading frames from a video file and do some processing on each frame. import cv2 cap = ...
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Create RTSP stream of a webcam using opencv in C++

I am trying to capture video from my webcam and send it to via RTSP stream using open cv in C++.I am not worked much on c++ before so please avoid mistakes their below is my code that writes webcam ...
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Is it possible to apply h.264 compression to image?

Currently, I am applying h.264 compression to a single image. As you can see in the picture below, I want to compress that image based on h.264 with 40 constant quantization. However, there are no ...
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How to write to H264 .mp4 file from Ubuntu with Python OpenCV VideoWriter, FOURCC

I am on Ubuntu 18.04, but the solution has to generalize to Debian Buster because that's what Streamlit.io Sharing websites runs on. I want to write frames with Python OpenCV to a h.264 encoded mp4 ...
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How to stream frames from OpenCV C++ code to Video4Linux or ffmpeg?

I am experimenting with OpenCV to process frames from a video stream. The goal is to fetch a frame from a stream, process it and then put the processed frame to a new / fresh stream. I have been able ...
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How to pass BGR NumPy arrays directly to FFMPEG with CUDA support

I am using cv2 to edit images and create a video from the frames with FFMPEG. See this post for more details. The images are 3D RGB NumPy arrays (shape is like [h, w, 3]), they are stored in a Python ...
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cv2.VideoWriter() file format .mp4 with HEVC codec

I am using cv2.VideoWriter() to record from a single camera and writing the video to a .mp4 file with a HEVC codec. I had this script previously working on a (Windows) laptop with the following code: ...
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ffmpeg video slides vertically after 'Invalid buffer size, packet size < expected frame_size' error (vsync screen tearing glitch)?

I have a video which i want to cut and crop using opencv and ffmpeg. I want the output to be H265, so i am using a ffmpeg subprocess (writing frame bytes to stdin) as explained here. This is a ...
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Better Image Quality with Python OpenCV

I use OpenCV to capture webcam video as frames to a list variable, then write that list to disk both as image sequence and as a video file. The image quality is fine. But the video is horribly ...
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Control bitrate of video generated using opencv VideoWriter

I am generating a video from a set of images using cv2.VideoWriter(filename,fourcc,fps,size) I want to use a particular bitrate for my output videos to reduce the file sizes. I am trying to mimic a ...
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How can I pipe JPEG files into FFMPEG and create an RTSP, H.264 stream?

I have an input RTSP stream that I would like to manipulate on a frame-by-frame basis using openCV. After these changes are applied, I'd like to create a separate RTSP stream from those frames. I'm ...
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How can I achieve smaller size of a video file from CCTV footage (mainly still image with low motion)?

DISCLAIMER: I am pretty new to video processing and multimedia in general, so I am not really familiar with the terminology, sorry if I use some terms incorrectly. A few weeks ago I faced a problem ...
Emil Avramov's user avatar
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Unknown input format: 'rawvideo' when trying to save animation

So, I get a strange error trying to save animations created with matplotlib.FuncAnimation using FFMpegWriter. /home/j/PycharmProjects/venvtest/venv/bin/python /home/j/PycharmProjects/venvtest/main.py ...
John Klint's user avatar
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Merge individual frame to video file using Opencv

I am trying to stack a individual frame to a video file using Opencv. I want to combine two different code together to make the individual frame. Following code help me extract the individual frame, ...
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