Collecting raw byte data of image/frame into Nim's array/sequence.

[eagledot]

Code provided in opencv/tests/camera.nim works fine but i have not found a way to get the image/frame data into a nim's sequence/array. It is my understanding that default arguments are width:640 ,height:480 , channels:3 resulting in 921600 bytes of data .But the length of data is not constant and is generally less than 921600 bytes.

According to the code openCV returns a pointer to the string data i.e of type cstring.

Extra code i used to access the raw data is like this:

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 var frame = queryFrame(capture)
 var imgData =  cast[seq[uint8]](toSeq($frame.imageData))
 echo("len of imgData: ",imgData.len)

Shouldn't the data length be equal to 921600 for each frame??.

[eagledot]

I was my mistake to first cast frame.imageData to string using $.

It works simply as:

 var imgData = cast[array[921600,uint8]](frame.imageData)