How to capture frames after each 5 seconds from live stream and save as image in a folder ??

I am trying to save frames from live stream after each 5 seconds duration and save the frames as an image into the folder. Kindly tell me how to define the n number of frames of live stream cam here?

Please help me to solve this problem.

 Folder = 'OUTPUT\';
vid = videoinput('winvideo', 1);
     
   % wait for 5 seconds
    
 for iframe = 1
  frames = getsnapshot(vid);
   pause(5);
  imwrite(frames, fullfile(Folder, sprintf('%06d.jpg', iframe)));
end 

Answer 1

[Balakrishnan Rajan]

You can use a while loop here.

Folder = 'OUTPUT\';
vid = videoinput('winvideo', 1);
     
   % wait for 5 seconds
    
while true
  frames = getsnapshot(vid);
  pause(5);
  imwrite(frames, fullfile(Folder, sprintf('%06d.jpg', iframe)));
  iframe = iframe + 1;
end 

Hope this does it.