I am wondering what kind of data type is being captured using the cv2.VideoCapture.read() method. I have been reading the OpenCV documents and I found this explanation:
I have followed a couple of basic tutorials with OpenCV where a webcam can capture data and outputs the frames. In the picture below the frame data is being shown.
And here follows the code that outputs these frames:
import cv2, time, base64
framesCaptured = 0;
video=cv2.VideoCapture(0) <====== Video capture for the webcam
# Save camera frames as movie
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('recording.avi', fourcc, 20.0, (640, 480))
while True:
framesCaptured += 1
check, frame = video.read() <====== Grabs and retrieves frames and decode
# Write video frames
out.write(frame)
# Print out statements
#print(check)
print(frame) <====== Print out frame data (as shown in the cmd picture below)
gray=cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
cv2.imshow("frame", gray)
key=cv2.waitKey(1)
if key == ord('q'):
break
#print('Frames captured: ' + str(framesCaptured))
video.release()
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows
So I am wondering what kind of data type is being printed from the 'frame' variable?
In the end I want to use this 'frame' data to re-construct the images to a video in a C# application.

