I’ve had success in Python 3 using a simple counter and setting the capture to that counter’s frame, as follows:
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('XYZ.avi')
# For streams:
# cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://url.to.stream/media.amqp')
# Or e.g. most common ID for webcams:
# cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
count = 0
while cap.isOpened():
ret, frame = cap.read()
if ret:
cv2.imwrite('frame{:d}.jpg'.format(count), frame)
count += 30 # i.e. at 30 fps, this advances one second
cap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES, count)
else:
cap.release()
break
I’ve tried to find a way to make this a little more pythonic using a with
statement but I don’t believe the CV2 library has been updated for it.