How can I read an uploaded video using OpenCV? The file format is io Bytes, and I can’t get a way for even store it and then load it for frame processing. Any suggestions?

Hi @MarioNavarrete welcome to the forum ! I think I recently saw a solution writing the io.Bytes into a temporary file before reading it with the library you like, check this answer . But I’m not sure it solves your problem when you say you can’t store anything on disk ? Let us know how this goes, …

Thanks for the reply! Yes, after I posted my question, I found the same thread and I was able to save on disk the uploaded.video!

Hi @MarioNavarrete , I am running into the same problem as you, but I am not able to figure out how to write the io.Bytes into a temporary file for a video. Could give an example of how to do it? Thanks in advance!

Hi @raychen930 , welcome to the Streamlit community! Does this solve the issue you are running into? [image] How to access uploaded video in streamlit by open cv? Using Streamlit Seems wasteful, but if OpenCV really requires a file, I wonder if this will be acceptable: i…

Hi Randy, thanks for the quick reply. My problem is slightly different in that I am trying to use the imagio’s get_reader function on an uploaded Streamlit video file, but I am getting a “‘Could not find a format to read the specified file in %s mode’ % modename” error. I tried the solution from t…

If your problem isn’t the same as this one, then it’s better to create a new topic. Post your code, along with the error message and someone will be able to help you figure it out :slight_smile:

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randyzwitch October 6, 2020, 4:03pm 5

Hi @raychen930, welcome to the Streamlit community!

Does this solve the issue you are running into?

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