Previewing pre recorded video

Hi,

Does anybody knows how can I change the following code to use for a pre-recorded video (mp4).?

i need to preview of a pre-recorded video, not live one!

Thanks.

*i am using matlab R2020a

% Create a video input object.
vid = videoinput('winvideo', 1, 'YUY2_640x480');        
set(vid,'ReturnedColorSpace','grayscale');
% Create a figure window. This example turns off the default
% toolbar, menubar, and figure numbering.

figure('Toolbar','none',...
       'Menubar', 'none',...
       'NumberTitle','Off',...
       'Name','My Preview Window');

% Create the image object in which you want to display 
% the video preview data. Make the size of the image
% object match the dimensions of the video frames.

vidRes = vid.VideoResolution;
nBands = vid.NumberOfBands;
hImage = image( zeros(vidRes(2), vidRes(1), nBands) );

% Display the video data in your GUI.

preview(vid, hImage);

Answer 1

[Madhav Thakker]

Hi Koohyar,

I understand that you want to preview pre-recorded video and not a live one. The preview function requires a video input object which is not possible to create using pre-recorded video file.

VideoReader is used for reading and previewing a pre-recorded mp4 file. I am attaching a snippet from the documentation that does the same.

v = VideoReader('xylophone.mp4');
currAxes = axes;
while hasFrame(v)
    vidFrame = readFrame(v);
    image(vidFrame, 'Parent', currAxes);
    currAxes.Visible = 'off';
    pause(1/v.FrameRate);
end

Hope this helps.

[Koohyar]

Hi Madhav ,

many thanks for this, I think I need to work on it, as this is a part of my main code for image processing. I am looking to have input video, craeted by Image Acquisition Tool in graystyle, and then proceed the image processing.

[Koohyar]

@Madhav Thakker:

Hi Madhav ,

Please can you let me know that how can I have a graystyle video, in the code you provided for me?

Thanks.

[Madhav Thakker]

You can convert each frame to gray scale. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/11618-convert-to-grayscale#answer_15850