OpenCV VideoCapture not getting more frames - c++

Does anyone know how to get OpenCV to grab all the frames from a video file?
I've been trying to just grab frames from video files (.wmv files, in particular), but on most videos, I end up with "nan" as my framerate and it only gets a single frame from my video and doesn't think there are any more. However, on at least one video, it succeeds and gets the right framerate. I tried to manually set the frame rate, but this did not work.
One thing to note is that it seems like the videos where it doesn't work are very short (~5 seconds long). However, I have not thoroughly tested this theory as I don't have very many videos (only ~10 videos).
The minimum code necessary to reproduce this is below:
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
VideoCapture capture;
char* video = argv[1];
int flag = arg_parse(argc, argv);
capture.open(video);
//capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_FPS, 25); // Trying to set frame rate.
std::cout << "frame rate: " << capture.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FPS) << std::endl;
if(!capture.isOpened()) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize capturing..\n");
return -1;
}
while(true) {
Mat frame;
int i, j, c;
// get a new frame
capture >> frame;
std::cout << "GOT FRAME!" << std::endl;
if(frame.empty()) {
std::cout << "breaking..." << std::endl;
break;
}
}
return 0;
}
Thanks so much!

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vector<String>
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I have written a program to display a stored video file using opencv. I attached the code below. I am not getting any errors while building it but no output is displayed.
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc <= 1)
{
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