Can't load .avi video file.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on January 25, 2015 at 1:10pm

To load an .avi file, just use the video player and provide the path to the directory of your movie file. For the edge capture, you may be able to get close if you use the edge detection and/or threshold filters. Pass the image through the filter then use a bitmap painter component to render it on the canvas (so you can see how it looks). Best of luck.

Permalink Reply by evrytsubj on January 25, 2015 at 6:31pm

Millions thanks Andy!!! ;) 

Permalink Reply by Johanna Jõekalda on April 28, 2017 at 10:06am

hey Andy,

is there any way to make sure that frames aren't skipped while playing the video? it seems the 'video player' component automatically reduces the frame rate according to computing power in order to keep the original speed. in some cases - for instance while creating an extra layer for a prerecorded video clip - it isn't important to keep the original speed. it's more important that no frames are skipped in the process and it doesn't matter if the video slows down to provide this (as the outcome would be anyway compiled later in a different program).

the dream option would be to switch between video frames using a slider. I've tried to do this by using the image sequence of the prerecorded video frames, but some components like 'optical flow' only seem to accept 'video player' source. (the 'panel' labels both sources as 'firefly_bridge.firefly_bitmap' but there still seems to be a difference between 'image bitmaps' and 'video bitmaps' and I haven't found a way to convert one to the other.)

thanks in advance,

Johanna