Writing AVI files in OpenCV

Question

There example on the net and code given in Learn OpenCv,Orielly.

After many attempts the out.avi file is written with 0 bytes. I wonder where i went wrong.

T

Answer 1

Maybe you could try inserting a printf("Frame found\n") inside the for(;;) to see if it is actually capturing frames. Or even better:

if(colourImage == NULL) {
    printf("Warning - got NULL colourImage\n");
    continue;
}
cvNamedWindow( "test", 1);
cvShowImage( "test", colourImage );
cvWaitKey( 0 );
cvDestroyWindow( "test" );

Then see if you get any windows, and if they contain the right contents.