This is a workaround rather than a solution, but it does help: install scikit-video (for example with pip install scikit-video) and either avconv or ffmpeg, then use skvideo.io.VideoCapture in place of cv2.VideoCapture.

[aruna09]

This is a workaround rather than a solution, but it does help: install scikit-video (for example with pip install scikit-video) and either avconv or ffmpeg, then use skvideo.io.VideoCapture in place of cv2.VideoCapture.

import sys
import skvideo.io
cap = skvideo.io.VideoCapture(sys.argv[1])
ret, frame = cap.read()

API is a drop-in replacement.

Originally posted by @aizvorski in #121 (comment)

[aruna09]

I am facing the same error, however that is due to the cv2.namedWindow() and cv2.destroyWindow() command. I tried the above and also tried to look through the documentation of scikit-vedio( http://www.scikit-video.org/stable/examples.html ) for a replacement of the namedWindow command, however I couldn't find anything that would turn out to be useful. Any suggestions on this one?

[csoja]

This is the wrong forum/audience for your question. I'd recommend opening an issue here: https://github.com/scikit-video/scikit-video/issues/new