Writing an mp4 video using python opencv

Question

I want to capture video from a webcam and save it to an mp4 file using opencv. I found example code on stackoverflow (below) that works great. The only hitch is that I\'m trying

Answer 1

There are some things to change in your code:

1. Change the name of your output to 'output.mp4' (change to .mp4)
2. I had the the same issues that people have in the comments, so I changed the fourcc to 0x7634706d: out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.mp4',0x7634706d , 20.0, (640,480))