VideoCapture Does Not Work in Anaconda

Question

I am using ubuntu 14.04, and have anaconda python installed. I used conda install opencv and conda install cv2 to install opencv. However I am unable to use the VideoCapture

Answer 1

Use conda-recipes to install ffmpeg.

git clone https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes.git

cd conda-recipes

conda build x264

conda build ffmpeg

See also here.