Im brand new to digital image processing, and opencv, and Ive been struggling, to save an image, from a video stream. I am trying to use imwrite, to write a new image, from a frame. but it doesn't work that way.
(In python, (not that this is a python question) I had to create a blank image, then use imwrite, to save the frame to the blank with imwrite) It felt pretty hackerish, Im looking for the best way to save an image from a video stream.
imwrite() doesn't apparently create a new image if one doesn't already exist. (Or I don't know how to make it do it)
What is the best practice for saving an image from a video stream?
#include
#include
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char** argv){
VideoCapture cap;
// Create mat with alpha channel
Mat mat(480, 640, CV_8UC4);
for(;;){ //forever
Mat frame;
cap >> frame;
if( frame.empty() ) break; // end of video stream
imshow("this is you, smile! :)", frame);
imwrite(frame, 'n.png' );
if( waitKey(1) == 27 ) break; // stop capturing by pressing ESC
}
// the camera will be closed automatically upon exit
// cap.close();
return 0;
}
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