#OpenCV – Open a video file 🎥 and save each frame as a PNG 🖼 file to a folder 📂#Net5

Hi !

A couple of days ago I wrote this post, and made the sample with Python. So today, same scenario, however with C# 9 and Net5.

This is a non-usual scenario, however I’m on a point where I need to extract all the frames from a video file. The reason: some of these frames will be used to train a Machine Learning model.

There are tools that can do this, however it’s a nice moment to do some OpenCV code. Let’s go for it. A couple of remarks

• Video file must be in the same folder as python file, and the name is defined in video_file, line 7
• There is a live preview of the video, comment line 24 to avoid this
• You can stop the process at any time pressing the Q letter

using System;
using OpenCvSharp;

var videoFile = "01.mp4";
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory("frames");

var capture = new VideoCapture(videoFile);
var window = new Window("El Bruno - OpenCVSharp Save Video Frame by Frame");
var image = new Mat();

var i = 0;
while (capture.IsOpened())
{
    capture.Read(image);
    if (image.Empty())
        break;

    i++;
    var imgNumber = i.ToString().PadLeft(8, '0');

    var frameImageFileName = $@"frames\image{imgNumber}.png";
    Cv2.ImWrite(frameImageFileName, image);

    window.ShowImage(image);
    if (Cv2.WaitKey(1) == 113) // Q
        break;
}

Console.WriteLine("Complete !");