Create an Object of Class VideoStack

Function for creating VideoStack objects from multiple video files.

Usage

videoStack(..., api = "ANY")

Arguments

...

Character strings (separately or in a vector or list), each corresponding to the path to a video file, or Video objects (separately or in a vector or list). All videos must have the same dimensions. If left empty, an empty VideoStack object will be created and videos can be added to it later.

api

A character string corresponding to the API to use for reading the video from a file (see Note; default: "ANY").

Value

A VideoStack object.

Note

Hereafter is a list of all supported APIs. Note that not all APIs will be available on your computer (actually most of them will not be).

• "ANY": automatically select an API.

• "VFW": Video For Windows.

• "V4L", "V4L2": Video For Linux.

• "FIREWIRE", "FIREWARE", "IEEE1394", "DC1394", "CMU1394": IEEE 1394 drivers.

• "QT": Quicktime.

• "UNICAP": Unicap drivers.

• "DSHOW": DirectShow.

• "PVAPI": PvAPI, Prosilica GigE SDK.

• "OPENNI": OpenNI (for Kinect).

• "OPENNI_ASUS": OpenNI (for Asus Xtion).

• "XIAPI": XIMEA Camera API.

• "AVFOUNDATION": AVFoundation framework for iOS and OSX > Lion.

• "GIGANETIX": Smartek Giganetix GigEVisionSDK.

• "MSMF": Microsoft Media Foundation.

• "WINRT": Microsoft Windows Runtime using Media Foundation.

• "INTELPERC": Intel Perceptual Computing SDK.

• "OPENNI2": OpenNI2 (for Kinect).

• "OPENNI2_ASUS": OpenNI2 (for Asus Xtion and Occipital Structure sensors).

• "GPHOTO2": gPhoto2 connection.

• "GSTREAMER": GStreamer.

• "FFMPEG": FFMPEG library.

• "IMAGES": OpenCV Image Sequence.

• "ARAVIS": Aravis SDK.

• "OPENCV_MJPEG": Built-in OpenCV MotionJPEG codec.

• "INTEL_MFX": Intel MediaSDK.

See also

Video

Author

Simon Garnier, garnier@njit.edu

Examples

path <- system.file("sample_vid/Balloon.mp4", package = "Rvision")
balloonStack <- videoStack(path, path)
#> Error: Could not open the video.