video.md

## Video

This module provides the following functionalities.

- A `VideoReader` class with friendly apis to read and convert videos.
- Some methods for editing (cut, concat, resize) videos.
- Optical flow read/write.


The `VideoReader` class provides sequence like apis to access video frames.
It will internally cache the frames which have been visited.

```python
video = mmcv.VideoReader('test.mp4')

# obtain basic information
print(len(video))
print(video.width, video.height, video.resolution, video.fps)

# iterate over all frames
for frame in video:
    print(frame.shape)

# read the next frame
img = video.read()

# read a frame by index
img = video[100]

# read some frames
img = video[5:10]
```

To convert a video to images or generate a video from a image directory.

```python
# split a video into frames and save to a folder
video = mmcv.VideoReader('test.mp4')
video.cvt2frames('out_dir')

# generate video from frames
mmcv.frames2video('out_dir', 'test.avi')
```

There are also some methods for editing videos, which wraps the commands of ffmpeg.

```python
# cut a video clip
mmcv.cut_video('test.mp4', 'clip1.mp4', start=3, end=10, vcodec='h264')

# join a list of video clips
mmcv.concat_video(['clip1.mp4', 'clip2.mp4'], 'joined.mp4', log_level='quiet')

# resize a video with the specified size
mmcv.resize_video('test.mp4', 'resized1.mp4', (360, 240))

# resize a video with a scaling ratio of 2
mmcv.resize_video('test.mp4', 'resized2.mp4', ratio=2)
```