OpenCV read video file give different result in different VS project - c++

I have a simple script to read mp4 file like this.
#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/videoio/videoio.hpp>
int main()
{
cv::VideoCapture file("test.mp4");
cv::Mat frame;
while (true)
{
file.read(frame);
cv::imshow("Preview", frame);
cv::waitKey(42);
}
file.release();
return 0;
}
This works fine. But when I integrate this script into another project I'm working on. The the image frame shows in wrong aspect ratio.
Correct (Side by Side):
Wrong (Only show one side and aspect ratio is wrong):
I'm running on Windows VS2019. I have remove all other script in my exists project, just leave the above. The only different I can think of is the includes and linker setting. I use ceres, glog, d3d11, realsense2, VTK, pcl, eigen3, OpenXR in the project. Does any of that effects what OpenCV behave? Or what might be the problem?
I've already try setting the frame width and height for VideoCapture and it's not working.
I've test both OpenCV 4.1 and 4.6.
When accessing frame.cols, frame.rows, I got the correcy resolution.
UPDATE
The metadata of the file I'm trying to read is as below. This is a side by side 3D video. It also can display correctly in player such as VLC.
mediainfo test.mp4
General
Complete name : test.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 181 MiB
Duration : 31 s 339 ms
Overall bit rate : 48.4 Mb/s
Writing application : Lavf58.20.100
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High#L5.1
Format settings : CABAC / 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 31 s 317 ms
Bit rate : 48.0 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 3.556
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 60.000 FPS
Minimum frame rate : 59.920 FPS
Maximum frame rate : 60.080 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.193
Stream size : 179 MiB (99%)
Title : SStar Video
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 31 s 339 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 140 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 534 KiB (0%)
Title : SStar Audio
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1

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What I hope will be a quick question.. Does anybody know how to specify the output format of a v4l2Convert Plugin in GStreamer? Slightly more specifically the stride alignment or Bytes per line I don't mind which?
To give the full details. I'm playing around with an embedded video processing platform and wish to simultaneously connect multiple outputs to a single input using a GStreamer Tee object. The problem is that different outputs need different stride alignments / bytes per line.
I can set the stride alignment on the v4l2src plugin I'm using to read the input device and can get a combination that "works" for all outputs. But under the hood GStremaer is being helpful and instantiating a buffer copy, to perform re-alignment, using memcpy and thus my CPU utilisation goes through the roof.
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Pixel Format : 'NV16' (Y/CbCr 4:2:2)
Field : None
Number of planes : 1
Flags :
Colorspace : SMPTE 170M
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Plane 0 :
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Number of planes : 1
Flags :
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Format Video Capture Multiplanar:
Width/Height : 1920/1080
Pixel Format : 'NV16' (Y/CbCr 4:2:2)
Field : None
Number of planes : 1
Flags :
Colorspace : SMPTE 170M
Transfer Function : Rec. 709
YCbCr/HSV Encoding: ITU-R 601
Quantization : Limited Range
Plane 0 :
Bytes per Line : 1920
Size Image : 4147200
Format Video Output Multiplanar:
Width/Height : 1920/1080
Pixel Format : 'NV16' (Y/CbCr 4:2:2)
Field : None
Number of planes : 1
Flags :
Colorspace : SMPTE 170M
Transfer Function : Rec. 709
YCbCr/HSV Encoding: ITU-R 601
Quantization : Limited Range
Plane 0 :
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The best I've found is the extra-controls cap but I can find very little documentation on this, and what I have found appears to suggest it's used for setting the V4L2 devices "physical" controls rather than things like the format information, so I'm probably barking up the wrong tree there any way.
my test pipeline is: -
v4l2src name=videosrc device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, width=1920, height=1080, format=NV16, framerate=30/1 ! queue ! v4l2convert device=/dev/video2 disable-passthrough=true capture-io-mode=4 output-io-mode=4 import-buffer-alignment=true ! queue ! kmssink sync=false fullscreen-overlay=true
If it's helps what I want to be able to do is provide video at 1920x1080, 1920 bytes per line (GStreamer will does this quite happily for me). But set the V2l2Converts capture / source to be 1920x1080, 2048 bytes per line, as the problem sink device needs a stride align of 256.
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How to save a .h264 stream to an image? C++

ALREADY WORKING:
I get video from embedded video source (just device) through LAN and I can get video from it and save it to file ".h264" (append to file every next "encodedPacket", C++) (it is worked fine, I can play file using VLC).
TASK:
How can I save image files periodically (5 in 1 second for example) (any format, but I want jpg)?
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Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
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https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20thumbnail%20image%20every%20X%20seconds%20of%20the%20video
I'd try something like: ffmpeg -i input.h264 -vf fps=5 out%d.jpg
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https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

Capturing H264 stream with OpenCV

So. I have been trying to get my Raspberry Pi 2 to capture H264 stream with OpenCV from my Logitech C920 for quite some time now. I have been scavenging the internet for info, but with no luck.
A short system description:
Raspberry Pi 2, running Raspbian, Kernel 3.18
Logitech HD Pro Webcam c920
OpenCV 2.4.11
boneCV - Credits to Derek Molloy (https://github.com/derekmolloy/boneCV)
libx264 and FFMPEG (built with x264 support)
libv4l-dev, v4l-utils, qv4l2, v4l2ucp
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/* libv4l will convert from any format to V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 */
CLEAR (capture->form);
capture->form.type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE;
capture->form.fmt.pix.pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24;
capture->form.fmt.pix.field = V4L2_FIELD_ANY;
capture->form.fmt.pix.width = capture->width;
capture->form.fmt.pix.height = capture->height;
I can set the pixelformat manualy with v4l2-ctl --set-fmt-video
pi#raspberrypi ~/boneCV$ v4l2-ctl --set-fmt-video=width=1920,height=1080,pixelformat=H264
pi#raspberrypi ~/boneCV$ v4l2-ctl --get-fmt-video
Format Video Capture:
Width/Height : 1920/1080
Pixel Format : 'H264'
Field : None
Bytes per Line: 3840
Size Image : 4147200
Colotspace : SRGB
And if I now run "./boneCV" - A very simple capture program that captures a picture and does a canny edge detection. (I'll add the code in the end). I get this:
pi#raspberrypi ~/boneCV$ ./boneCV
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Format Video Capture:
Width/Height : 1920/1080
Pixel Format : 'MJPG'
Field : None
Bytes per Line: 0
Size Image : 4147200
Colorspace : SRGB
As you can se the "Pixelformat" and the "Bytes per Line" changes. The "Field" stays at None and the "Colourspace" stays at SRGB.
Then I tried to replace every "V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24" with "V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264" in cap_lib4vl.cpp and rebuilded OpenCV. When I then ran the "./boneCV" my two .png images are only black with one or two stripes of white color.
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pi#raspberrypi ~/boneCV$ v4l2-ctl --get-fmt-video
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Width/Height : 1920/1080
Pixel Format : 'H264'
Field : None
Bytes per Line: 3840
Size Image : 4147200
Colotspace : SRGB
Exactly the same as when I did set everything manualy.
I have come to the conclusion that if I want OpenCV to be able to capture raw H264 streams I'll have to change the cap_libv4l.cpp, but I have no idea how. I think it may be because the difference in bits per frame and/or colorspace.
Do anybody know how to do this or how to make an workaround so that I stil can use OpenCVs "VideoCapture" function?
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I have tried to cover everything that I think is relevant, if there is anything more I could provide to paint the picture better, please say so.
Her some links to the mentioned scripts and programs:
(edit. I tried to post the links to each of the programs, but I didn't have enough reputation. Go to Derek Molloys github page and you'll find boneCV there.)
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I've got web camera (China) which can play MJPEG and h.264. I want to save the stream with gstreamer, but if I can do it with MJPEG, I can't do it with h264. I know, that camera gives h264 stream. Programms from developer shows it and if I save video with such programs I see that it is h264.
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Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
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Audio ID : 1
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This works
gst-launch souphttpsrc location="http://shonlinecam1.dyndns.org:81/videostream.cgi?loginuse=user&loginpas=123" \
! jpegparse ! jpegdec \
! x264enc bitrate=512 key-int-max=45 speed-preset=superfast threads=1 \
! video/x-h264,stream-format=avc,alignment=au,profile=constrained-baseline \
! h264parse ! fakesink
This doesn't work
gst-launch souphttpsrc \
is-live=true \
location="http://shonlinecam1.dyndns.org:81/livestream.cgi?user=user&pwd=123&streamid=0" \
! h264parse ! decodebin2 ! fakesink
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DirectShow video playing too fast when audio pin rendering data

I'm working on a custom Windows DirectShow source filter based on CSource and CSourceStream for each pin. There are two pins - video output and audio output. Both pins work fine when individually rendered in graphedit and similar tools such as Graph Studio with correct time stamps, frame rates and sound. I'm rendering the video to the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR7 or VMR9).
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When I added support for IMediaSeeking seeking I found that the seeking bar for the audio stream behaved quite bizarrely. However the problem happens without IMediaSeeking support.
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Subtype: PCM audio
Sample Size: 3
Type WaveFormatEx
Wave Format: Unknown
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Samples/sec.: 48000
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The audio stream had completely bogus time stamps. The audio and video streams played back fine individually but did not synch at all with each other when played together.