combining separate audio and video files into one file C++ - c++

I am working on a C++ project with openCV. It is a simple web cam application with basic features like capturing pictures and videos. I have already been able to save video (w/o audio). Since openCV doesnot support audio processing, I was wondering if there is any way I can record audio separately in a different file and later combine those together to get one video file.
While searching on the internet, I did hear something about using ffmpeg with openCV. But I just cant figure out how to do it exactly.....
Can you guys help me? I would be very grateful... Thankyou!
P.S. I have used openCV and QT (for GUI)

As you said, opencv doesn't by itself deal with audio. However once you get a separate audio and video file, you can combine them using a technique called muxing. There are many many ways to do this. I use VirtualDub for most of my muxing needs, although it is windows only (not sure if that's a problem). I know ffmpeg is also capable of muxing (via the command line interface), I can't recall what the command is. There's also mplayer and a multitude of other programs out there to do this.

as far as i know openCV is good for video/image processing. To support audio processing, you can use other libraries e.g. PortAudio or C-sound.

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Convert Movie to OpenNI *.oni video

The Kinect OpenNI library uses a custom video file format to store videos that contain rgb+d information. These videos have the extension *.oni. I am unable to find any information or documentation whatsoever on the ONI video format.
I'm looking for a way to convert a conventional rgb video to a *.oni video. The depth channel can be left blank (ie zeroed out). For example purposes, I have a MPEG-4 encoded .mov file with audio and video channels.
There are no restrictions on how this conversion must be made, I just need to convert it somehow! Ie, imagemagick, ffmpeg, mencoder are all ok, as is custom conversion code in C/C++ etc.
So far, all I can find is one C++ conversion utility in the OpenNI sources. From the looks of it, I this converts from one *.oni file to another though. I've also managed to find a C++ script by a phd student that converts images from a academic database into a *.oni file. Unfortunately the code is in spanish, not one of my native languages.
Any help or pointers much appreciated!
EDIT: As my usecase is a little odd, some explanation may be in order. The OpenNI Drivers (in my case I'm using the excellent Kinect for Matlab library) allow you to specify a *.oni file when creating the Kinect context. This allows you to emulate having a real Kinect attached that is receiving video data - useful when you're testing / developing code (you don't need to have the Kinect attached to do this). In my particular case, we will be using a Kinect in the production environment (process control in a factory environment), but during development all I have is a video file :) Hence wanting to convert to a *.oni file. We aren't using the Depth channel at the moment, hence not caring about it.
I don't have a complete answer for you, but take a look at the NiRecordRaw and NiRecordSynthetic examples in OpenNI/Samples. They demonstrate how to create an ONI with arbitrary or modified data. See how MockDepthGenerator is used in NiRecordSynthetic -- in your case you will need MockImageGenerator.
For more details you may want to ask in the openni-dev google group.
Did you look into this command and its associated documentation
NiConvertXToONI --
NiConvertXToONI opens any recording, takes every node within it, and records it to a new ONI recording. It receives both the input file and the output file from the command line.

c++ video compression library that supports many different compression algorithms?

For a scientific project i need to compress video data. The video however doesn't contain natural video and the quality characteristics of the compression will be different than for natural footage (preservation of hard edges for example is more important than smooth gradients or color correctness).
I'm looking for a library that can be easily integrated in an existing c++ project and that let's me experiment with different video compression algorithms.
Any suggestions?
Look at FFmpeg. It is the the most mature open source tool for video compression and decompression. It comes with a command line tool, and with libraries for codecs and muxers/demuxers that can be statically or dynamically linked.
As satuon already answered, FFmpeg is the go-to solution for all things multimedia. However, I just wanted to suggest an easier path for you than trying to hook your program up to its libraries. It would probably be far easier for you to generate a sequence of raw RGB images within your program, dump each out to disc (perhaps using a ridiculously simple format like PPM), and then use FFmpeg from the command like to compress them into a proper movie.
This workflow might cut down on your prototyping and development time.
As for the specific video codec you will want to use, you have a plethora of options available to you. One of the most important considerations will be: Who needs to be able to play your video and what software will they have available?

how to use DirectShow to render audio in C++

I am just starting to learn DirectShow with C++. I need to use DirectShow to record the audio and write it to a WAV file on the disk. I heard from other people that Win 7 does not allow for rendering audio using DirectShow.
In addition, I would like to know how should I start with recoding audio using DirectShow with C++? If there is sample source, it would be great.
Thanks in advance.
I think you may have misunderstood these other people. Windows Media Foundation is aimed to be the successor of DirectShow, but DirectShow is still a very valid technology on Windows 7.
The easiest thing to accomplish what you want to do, is to get it right using the GraphEdit tool first ( I assume you want to do this programmatically).
Create a graph that contains your audio device, a WavDestFilter, and a file writer.
Source -> WavDest -> File Writer
Play the graph. Stop the graph and you should have created a .wav file with the recorded audio. If you can get this right, then you need to do the whole thing programmatically.
There are a couple of samples in the SDK that show you how to programmatically add filters to a graph and connect them, that should enable you to get started.
WRT the WavDestFilter, IIRC it might not be in all versions of the SDK, you'll have to find an appropriate one. You also need to build it, and regsvr32 it, so that it will show up in your list of available filters in GraphEdit.
If this all seems a bit much, I would read through the DirectShow documentation on MSDN to at least get an overview of DirectShow.

converting image sequence to video

I want to make a screen capture utility, so far i am able to capture the screen in regular interval to get a numbered sequence of images and now i want to encode them to a video format preferably flv(because of good compression and web support)
....I tried the ffmpeg.exe for that reason but for some strange reason it did'nt work
on my vista ultimate...only the first picture is encoded while the rest -I dont know what happened to them.
Also I would prefer doing the encoding stuf programatically (using c/c++ library api if any for that purpose) rather than using tools as ffmpeg.exe and i am interested in encoding picture sequence to video not capturing contineouse video directly.
I searched through internet....there are lots of libraries and tutorial for converting between video formats but I did'nt find something usefull for my problem.
I am not verry proficient with video formats and sdk library, I just need a quick way to encode some pictures to video with some basic control (as time interval between two consecutive frames).
So can you help me with some pointers as to which library i should use and how(code fragment and little descriptive answer would greatly help) and please dont recomend any .NET solution I need to learn something out of this and dont want to apply some bruteforce approach to solve the problem.
Sorry for my english....and thanks in advance.
It appears that an .avi file can more or less directly be made of .jpg's:
An AVI file may carry audio/visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), ..., Motion JPEG.
Also, something very similar has been discussed here before.

Combine Video and Audio Streams (Qt, OpenCV, PortAudio,libsnd?)

I was wondering, how would I combine recorded audio and video into one if I have them in separate files? Preferably using OpenCV and PortAudio/libsnd.
Thanks in advance.
FFmpeg is used to decode and encode almost all popular formats. It can be used as an alternative to all of these. PortAudio will probably only be useful for audio playback, so unless you need to play the stuff back it won't be needed. In case you do need A/V playback, FFmpeg is also good (VLC uses it.)
You can refer ffmpeg
On linux try mencoder usually part of the mplayer package. It is fairly straight forward to use after reading through its man page.