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Faster video file FPS with cv2.VideoCapture and OpenCV

February 6, 2017

Have you ever worked with a video file via OpenCV’s cv2.VideoCapture function and found that reading frames just felt slow and sluggish? I’ve been there — and I know exactly how it feels. Your entire video processing pipeline crawls along,…

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Count the total number of frames in a video with OpenCV and Python

January 9, 2017

Today’s blog post is part of a two part series on working with video files using OpenCV and Python. The first part of this series will focus on a question emailed in by PyImageSearch reader, Alex. Alex asks: I need…

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Saving key event video clips with OpenCV

February 29, 2016

Last week’s blog post taught us how to write videos to file using OpenCV and Python. This is a great skill to have, but it also raises the question: How do I write video clips containing interesting events to file…

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Writing to video with OpenCV

February 22, 2016

Let me just start this blog post by saying that writing to video with OpenCV can be a huge pain in the ass. My intention with this tutorial is to help you get started writing videos to file with OpenCV…

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