OpenCV and FFMPEG connection

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I accessed my webcam using OpenCV, and I am getting Mat of the RAW image, I want to pass this into ffmpeg to encode the stream, how do I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 12-Mar-14 16:20pm

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[no name] 13-Mar-14 0:07am

More explanation is required. What encoding? Why not use ffmpeg directly without opencv.

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User 59241 · Answer 1 · 2014-03-12T18:45:00

Having read your other question on a related matter I will answer here. You need to convert a cv image (cv::Mat) to an AVFrame.

This should get you well and truly started:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13654789/how-to-create-video-using-avcodec-from-jpeg-images-of-type-opencvmat[^]

This may also be of interest (I include it because I am not clear on what your requirement is):

http://siddhantahuja.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/ros-opencv-read-a-video-file-using-ffmpeg/[^]