How do i solve the error of VideoWriter/writeVideo

Hello , i wrote this code to detect a face during a video :
%Reading the video
VideoFileReader=VideoReader('vidto.avi');
myvideo = VideoWriter('myfile.avi');
depVideoPlayer=vision.DeployableVideoPlayer;
faceDetector = vision.CascadeObjectDetector ;

%Read frame by Frame
while hasFrame(VideoFileReader)
videoFrame = readFrame(VideoFileReader);
bbox = faceDetector(videoFrame);
videoFrame = insertShape(videoFrame,'rectangle',bbox);

% display video
depVideoPlayer(videoFrame);

writeVideo(myvideo, videoFrame);
pause(1/VideoFileReader.FrameRate);
end

but each time i try the same error shows : 'Error using VideoWriter/writeVideo
OBJ must be open before writing video. Call open(obj) before calling writeVideo.'
why does this keep happening ? and how can i solve this

Answer 1

[Bhanu Prakash]

Hi Chaima,

I understand that you are facing an error while writing frames into a video file using the ‘VideoWriter’ function.

To write the modified frames into a video file, the ‘VideoWriter’ object ‘myvideo’ should be opened. To do this, you can use the ‘open’ function in MATLAB.

Please find the edited part of the code below:

faceDetector = vision.CascadeObjectDetector;
% Open the VideoWriter object
open(myvideo);
% Read frame by frame

For more information on the ‘open’ function, refer to the following documentation:

https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/videowriter.open.html