NVIDIA / NVIDIA/DALI

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

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