nulllpointer · July 9, 2019 22:06 · May 10, 2017
diff --git a/split-video-by-frame.py b/split-video-by-frame.py
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+'''
+Using OpenCV takes a mp4 video and produces a number of images.
+
+Requirements
+----
+You require OpenCV 3.2 to be installed.
+
+Run
+----
+Open the main.py and edit the path to the video. Then run:
+$ python main.py
+
+Which will produce a folder called data with the images. There will be 2000+ images for example.mp4.
+'''
+import cv2
+import numpy as np
+import os
+
+# Playing video from file:
+cap = cv2.VideoCapture('example.mp4')
+
+try:
+    if not os.path.exists('data'):
+        os.makedirs('data')
+except OSError:
+    print ('Error: Creating directory of data')
+
+currentFrame = 0
+while(True):
+    # Capture frame-by-frame
+    ret, frame = cap.read()
+
+    # Saves image of the current frame in jpg file
+    name = './data/frame' + str(currentFrame) + '.jpg'
+    print ('Creating...' + name)
+    cv2.imwrite(name, frame)
+
+    # To stop duplicate images
+    currentFrame += 1
+
+# When everything done, release the capture
+cap.release()
+cv2.destroyAllWindows()