OpenCV load video from url

Question

I have a video file (i.e. https://www.example.com/myvideo.mp4) and need to load it with OpenCV.

Doing the equivalent with an image is fairly trivial:

Answer 1

You will have to read the video using VideoCapture. there is no other way around that for now. unless you define it yourself.

remember a video is a combination of images changing at defined frame rate.

So You can read each frame in a while loop. as you apply the imdecode function.

import numpy as np
import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture('https://www.example.com/myimage.mp4')

while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret, image = cap.read()    
    loadedImage = cv2.imdecode(image, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
    cv2.imshow('frame',loadedImage)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()