Does DALI support reading videos from streams?
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Description
Our model captures the video directly from streams and we are currently using cv2.VideoCapture. Does the Dali video reader only read from files?
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Research direction
Start by checking DALI's video reader entry point and its documented input sources, then compare them with the cv2.VideoCapture stream use case described here. Confirm whether stream input is supported; if not, define the required scope and an acceptance test with maintainers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, opencv
- Domain
- computer-vision
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100