How to read video files using python & Opencv

Question

I am reading an avi file usinh python 2.7 and opencv2.4.I am using windows 10.My sample code is

import numpy as np
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(\'videos         


        

Answer 1

You took the tutorial from here: Playing Video from file

This question adresses your error: open cv error: (-215) scn == 3 || scn == 4 in function cvtColor

Two things may work:

• Make sure the video is found!
• And try to use cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)