video recording in bbb

[aryaksa...@gmail.com]

Hi,

My aim is to record video from Axis camera using bbb. I have done video streaming in bbb and it worked well. I can watch live video on an output window. I installed opencv in bbb and programs are written in C++. Now i need to record video at 25fps and i coded as shown below.

#include <iostream>

#include "cv.h"

#include "highgui.h"

 

using namespace std;

int main (int argc, char *argv[])

{

cv::VideoCapture vcap;

cv::Mat frame;

cv::VideoWriter video;

    // Open the default camera

   const std::string videoStreamAddress = "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@IP ADDRESS/mjpg/video.mjpg";

 

    // Check if the camera was opened

    if(!vcap.open(videoStreamAddress)) {

        std::cout << "Error opening video stream or file" << std::endl;

        return -1;

    }

 

    // Get the properties from the camera

    double width = vcap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH);

    double height = vcap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT);

 

    cout << "Camera properties\n";

    cout << "width = " << width << endl <<"height = "<< height << endl;

 

   

 

    // Create a window to show the image

    cv::namedWindow ("Capture", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);

 

    // Create the video writer

    video.open("capture.avi",CV_FOURCC('M','J','P','G', 25, cvSize((int)width,(int)height),true );

 

    // Check if the video was opened

    if(!video.isOpened())

    {

        cerr << "Could not create video.";

        return -1;

    }

 

    cout << "Press Esc to stop recording." << endl;

 

    // Get the next frame until the user presses the escape key

    while(true)

    {

        // Get frame from capture

        vcap >> frame;

 

        // Check if the frame was retrieved

        if(!frame.data)

        {

            cerr << "Could not retrieve frame.";

            return -1;

        }

 

        // Save frame to video

        video << frame;

 

        // Show image

        cv::imshow("Capture", frame);

 

        // Exit with escape key

        if(cv::waitKey(1) == 27)

            break;

    }

 

    // Exit

    return 0;

}

This code is working in Eclipse IDE installed in Ubuntu host machine and i got recorded video in the workspace of Eclipse. When i copied this program to bbb, it is not working. It can stream the video and sent the frame properties and the output is "Could not create video.". What is the problem in this code? Can anyone help me?

Also i want to store this video to the sd card which act as the extra storage in bbb. how i can do it? Please help me. 

Thanks in advance. 

[Karl Karpfen]

May be a problem with privileges so that you can't write the video-file? If not I'd recommend to ask this question on stackoverflow.com since this seems to be more an OpenCV problem.