Hello, I want to read specific frames from a video, with a constant sampling rate (specifically one frame every 210 frames) between time1 and time2 points in a video. The problem I am facing is with read, which I cannot use after setting CurrentTime.
I have this code :
NumberOfFrames=1;
input.CurrentTime = 66;
while input.CurrentTime<486
sampling_factor=210;
jump=35;
thisFrame.cdata = read(input, (NumberOfFrames-1)*sampling_factor+jump);
disp((NumberOfFrames-1)*sampling_factor+jump);
end
which crashes because I cannot call read after setting currenttime (that is the error I get).
The workaround would be to first trim the video with
input.CurrentTime = 66;
k = 1;
while input.CurrentTime <= 486
newvid=readFrame(input);
k = k+1;
end
and then extract the frames, but this is not an "elegant" solution and would create memory issues. Does anybody have any advice on how to approach this?
P.S Moreover this :
while input.CurrentTime>66 && input.CurrentTime<486
sampling_factor=210;
jump=35;
nFrames = floor(totalFrames/sampling_factor);
thisFrame.cdata = read(input, (NumberOfFrames-1)*sampling_factor+jump);
does not work at all, the loop never begins :S
UPDATE
The solution to this is to move f rom working with frames, to working with time. So here's the code that worked :
time_interval=7 ;
while input.CurrentTime<486
thisFrame.cdata = readFrame(input);
imwrite(thisFrame.cdata,foldername,'png');
end
input.CurrentTime=floor(input.CurrentTime+time_interval);
disp(input.CurrentTime);
end
