Get Current Frame out of Video Reader Object?

Hi everybody,

when I stopp playing an VideoReader Object, is there a way to get the current videoFrame?

Something like currentFrame etc.?

Best regards.

Answer 1

[Shadaab Siddiqie]

From my understanding you want to get the frame when you pause a video. If you know at which time you will be pausing the video the you can get the frame:

time = 3.5 % suppose you need frame at 3.5th second
v = VideoReader('Test.avi','CurrentTime’, time);

If you really want to pause video, one possible workaround would be to use implay to pause video and get the frame like so:

% use implay to get frame time
fig = implay('Test.avi') 
% pause video and get the exact time of the video 
CurrentFrameTime = fig.DataSource.Controls.TimeOfDisplayData;
 
% use videoreader to get the frame from the time 
v = VideoReader('Test.avi','CurrentTime',CurrentFrameTime);
f = readFrame(v);
imshow(f)

Answer 2

[Alicia Wüst]

Thanks for your help! I‘ll try this today.