Where is opencv2's cvcapture and their subclass?

Question

I checked this Topic(process video stream from memory buffer), and I would like to do the same in this 1st answer. I tried to create a new class file that inherited from cvCapture_FFMPEG, and to override the "open" function. But I can't find any OpenCV module where there is a class named "cvCapture_FFMPEG".

I’m assuming that "cvCapture_FFMPEG" is nowhere in OpenCV and their API. Am I right? If so, could you tell me the best way to handle a buffer in OpenCV?

Please help.

Answer 1

As you can see here, there exists a constructor for cv::Mat in which you directly give the buffer representing a frame. Why not try to use this alongside memcpy to update the content of the Mat object whenever the buffer has new content?

Something like that:

/*myBuffer is a void* pointing on your data.
myBufferType is very important as it will give the number of bytes to 
be read for each element*/
cv::Mat myImage(height, width, myBufferType, myBuffer); 

while(1){

    if(myBufferHasBeenUpdated)
        std::memcpy(Mat.data, myBuffer, numberOfBytesToCopy);

    //Performing some operations on the Mat object
}   

EDIT: I saw you changed the title of your question. Here is the documentation about cv::VideoCapture that is in the highgui module of OpenCV. If you want to read a video directly from a file, it's the best way to proceed. However, if you want to read a video already in a buffer in memory like the topic you mentioned, I don't think there is a way to easily use it.