I have the exact same problem, vid.isOpened() returns false
file exists and opens fine with video player (VLC) but OpenCV doesn’t like it for some reason. I am building for MAC
here is the build information.
General configuration for OpenCV 4.9.0 =====================================
Version control: 4.9.0
Extra modules:
Location (extra): <INTENTIONALLY_REMOVED>/src/opencv_contrib/modules
Version control (extra): 4.9.0
Platform:
Timestamp: 2024-01-10T13:48:02Z
Host: <INTENTIONALLY-REMOVED>
CMake: 3.27.7
CMake generator: Unix Makefiles
CMake build tool: /usr/bin/gmake
Configuration: Release
CPU/HW features:
Baseline: SSE SSE2 SSE3
requested: SSE3
Dispatched code generation: SSE4_1 SSE4_2 FP16 AVX AVX2 AVX512_SKX
requested: SSE4_1 SSE4_2 AVX FP16 AVX2 AVX512_SKX
SSE4_1 (16 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1
SSE4_2 (2 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2
FP16 (1 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 AVX
AVX (9 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 AVX
AVX2 (36 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2
AVX512_SKX (8 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2 AVX_512F AVX512_COMMON AVX512_SKX
C/C++:
Built as dynamic libs?: YES
C++ standard: 11
C++ Compiler: /usr/bin/clang++ (ver 16.0.6)
C++ flags (Release): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Waddress -Wsequence-point -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winconsistent-missing-override -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-unnamed-type-template-args -Wno-comment -Wno-deprecated-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-anon-enum-enum-conversion -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -Qunused-arguments -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG
C++ flags (Debug): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Waddress -Wsequence-point -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winconsistent-missing-override -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-unnamed-type-template-args -Wno-comment -Wno-deprecated-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-anon-enum-enum-conversion -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -Qunused-arguments -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -g -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
C Compiler: /usr/bin/clang
C flags (Release): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Waddress -Wsequence-point -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winconsistent-missing-override -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-unnamed-type-template-args -Wno-comment -Wno-deprecated-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-anon-enum-enum-conversion -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -Qunused-arguments -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG
C flags (Debug): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Waddress -Wsequence-point -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winconsistent-missing-override -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-unnamed-type-template-args -Wno-comment -Wno-deprecated-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-anon-enum-enum-conversion -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -Qunused-arguments -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -g -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
Linker flags (Release): -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined
Linker flags (Debug): -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined
ccache: YES
Precompiled headers: NO
Extra dependencies: dl m pthread rt
3rdparty dependencies:
OpenCV modules:
To be built: alphamat aruco bgsegm bioinspired calib3d ccalib core datasets dnn dnn_objdetect dnn_superres dpm face features2d flann freetype fuzzy hfs highgui img_hash imgcodecs imgproc intensity_transform java line_descriptor mcc ml objdetect optflow phase_unwrapping photo plot python3 quality rapid reg rgbd saliency shape stereo stitching structured_light superres surface_matching text tracking ts video videoio videostab wechat_qrcode xfeatures2d ximgproc xobjdetect xphoto
Disabled: gapi hdf world
Disabled by dependency: -
Unavailable: cannops cudaarithm cudabgsegm cudacodec cudafeatures2d cudafilters cudaimgproc cudalegacy cudaobjdetect cudaoptflow cudastereo cudawarping cudev cvv julia matlab ovis python2 sfm viz
Applications: tests apps
Documentation: NO
Non-free algorithms: NO
GUI: NONE
VTK support: NO
Media I/O:
ZLib: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (ver 1.3)
JPEG: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so (ver 62)
WEBP: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so (ver encoder: 0x020f)
PNG: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so (ver 1.6.40)
TIFF: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so (ver 42 / 4.5.1)
JPEG 2000: OpenJPEG (ver 2.5.0)
HDR: YES
SUNRASTER: YES
PXM: YES
PFM: YES
Video I/O:
DC1394: YES (2.2.6)
FFMPEG: YES
avcodec: YES (60.3.100)
avformat: YES (60.3.100)
avutil: YES (58.2.100)
swscale: YES (7.1.100)
avresample: NO
v4l/v4l2: YES (linux/videodev2.h)
Parallel framework: pthreads
Trace: YES (with Intel ITT)
Other third-party libraries:
VA: NO
Lapack: YES (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblapack.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcblas.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas.so)
Eigen: YES (ver 3.4.0)
Custom HAL: NO
Python 3:
Interpreter: /usr/bin/python3 (ver 3.11.6)
Libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.11.so (ver 3.11.6)
numpy: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.24.2)
install path: lib/python3.11/dist-packages/cv2/python-3.11
Python (for build): /usr/bin/python3
Java:
ant: /bin/ant (ver 1.10.14)
Java: NO
JNI: /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include/linux /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include
Java wrappers: YES (ANT)
Java tests: YES
Install to: /usr/local
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