how to write a MP4 video using vision toolbox ?

hello , I have been trying to use

vision.VideoFileWriter('output.mp4','FileFormat', '???' ); but the help cant really tell me the strings for format types.

tnx to Dima for the help so far.

i still have a problem ( still trying to output a MP4 to a file) i get a "On Windows, frame must be between 64 by 64 and 1920 by 1088 when writing MPEG4 files." error when my frame to write is 1920X1080

my code :

hVideoSrc_Color = vision.VideoFileReader('swipeCut.mp4'); hReffVideoOut = vision.VideoFileWriter('diff.mp4','FrameRate',hVideoSrc_Color.info.VideoFrameRate,'FileFormat','MPEG4'); counter=0; while ~isDone(hVideoSrc_Color) frame=step(hVideoSrc_Color); step(hReffVideoOut,frame); counter=counter+1; end

release(hVideoSrc_gray); release(hReffVideoOut);

Answer 1

[Dinesh Iyer]

Lirian,

I see the confusion. It is common to refer to image dimensions in terms of Width x Height. So a full HD video is said to have dimensions 1920x1080. But an array storing that frame has 1080 rows and 1920 columns.

However, the variable "frame" that you have contains 1920 rows and 1080 columns. If you look at the example code I posted earlier, the data array was 1080x1920.

I am surprised that step( vision.VideoFileReader('swipeCut.mp4') ) returns 1920x1080x3 frames. I tried reading HD video from an MP4 file at my end and it returned a 1080x1920x3 matrix.

Hope this helps. Try to transpose "frame" and write it. I agree that the error message issued is confusing.

Dinesh

[Liran]

thank you , the video was taken from a screen recording of a mobile phone and thats why the dimentions are transposed.

does this mean i cant output any change i made to the original video to a MP4 file ?

[Dinesh Iyer]

Hi Lirian, You can try to write the transpose of the frame to an MP4 file.

if true
  vfw = vision.VideoFileWriter('Filename', 'myfile.mp4', 'FileFormat', 'MPEG-4');
  vfr = vision.VideoFileReader('swipeCut.mp4');
  while ~isDone(vfr)
      frame = step(vfr);
      step(vfw, frame');
  end
  release(vfr);
  release(vfw); 
end

Hope this helps.

Dinesh

Answer 2

[Dima Lisin]

If you do

 >> help vision.VideoFileWriter

and then click on FileFormat you should see this:

 FileFormat Format of created file
    Specify the format of the video file.  
    On Windows (R) platforms, this may be one of: 
        [{'AVI'} | 'WMV' | 'MJ2000' | 'MPEG4'].
    On Linux (R) platforms, this may be one of:
        [{'AVI'} | 'MJ2000']. 
    On Mac OS X (R) platforms, this may be one of:
        [{'AVI'} | 'MJ2000' | 'MPEG4']
    These abbreviations
    correspond to the following file formats: 
    WMV: Windows Media Video
    AVI: Audio-Video Interleave
    MJ2000: Motion JPEG 2000
    MPEG4: MPEG-4/H.264 Video

[Liran]

thanks , for some reason it's not written in the F1 help . I also have a follow-up question ( i edited my original post)

Answer 3

[Dinesh Iyer]

Liran, I tried the following code to write one frame of HD video on Windows 7 using R2014a:

if true
  data = single(rand(1080, 1920, 3));
  vfw = vision.VideoFileWriter('Filename', 'hdoutput.mp4', 'FileFormat', 'MPEG4')
  step(vfw, data);
end

and it worked fine without any errors. Can you verify the dimensions of the video in swipeCut.mp4?

[Liran]

my workspace : </matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/15768/workspace.PNG> you can see "frame" is 1920X1080X3

but i still get : </matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/15769/error.PNG>