How to queue a list of videos for analysis?

Hello,

I have a program written that does certain analysis on a video. However, I need to perform this analysis on many videos, thus is manually time consuming to load the next video into the program. Is there a way to queue a list of videos to be inputted in my program?

My pseudo code currently looks something like this:

obj = VideoReader('myVideo-1.MOV')
results = SOMEANALYSIS(obj)

My videos are in some form of myVideo-1, 'myVideo-2,..., myVideo-n, where n denotes the number of the video I am analysing.

Any input is appreciated.

Answer 1

[Mabin Mariam Joseph]

Hello Mark,

You can use create a 'FileDatastore' object that can hold all the video files. The 'ReadFcn' property of the datastore object is a function that reads the file data specified as a function handle. Please see the sample code below:

loc='location of the files';
fds = fileDatastore(loc,'ReadFcn',@myread,'FileExtensions','.mp4');
data = readall(fds);

function v = myread(file)
   v=VideoReader(file);
end

You can also refer to the following MATLAB Documentation links for further information:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/filedatastore.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.io.datastore.readall.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/datastore.html