对于 CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT，cvGetCaptureProperty 始终返回 0！

这是 O'Reilly Learning Opencv 的代码片段，

cvNamedWindow("Example3", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
g_capture = cvCreateFileCapture(argv[1]);
int frames = (int) cvGetCaptureProperty(g_capture, CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT);
if (frames != 0) {
    cvCreateTrackbar("Position", "Example3", &g_slider_postion, frames, onTrackbarSlide);
}

但不幸的是，cvGetCaptureProperty总是返回0。我在Yahoo搜索了opencv组，发现了同样的问题。

哦，我明白了。我在学习 OpenCV 的示例代码中找到了这些代码片段：

/*
OK, you caught us.  Video playback under linux is still just bad.  Part of this is due to FFMPEG, part of this
is due to lack of standards in video files.  But the position slider here will often not work. We tried to at least
find number of frames using the "getAVIFrames" hack below.  Terrible.  But, this file shows something of how to
put a slider up and play with it.  Sorry.
*/
//Hack because sometimes the number of frames in a video is not accessible.
//Probably delete this on Widows
int getAVIFrames(char * fname) {
    char tempSize[4];
    // Trying to open the video file
    ifstream  videoFile( fname , ios::in | ios::binary );
    // Checking the availablity of the file
    if ( !videoFile ) {
      cout << "Couldn’t open the input file " << fname << endl;
      exit( 1 );
    }
    // get the number of frames
    videoFile.seekg( 0x30 , ios::beg );
    videoFile.read( tempSize , 4 );
    int frames = (unsigned char ) tempSize[0] + 0x100*(unsigned char ) tempSize[1] + 0x10000*(unsigned char ) tempSize[2] +    0x1000000*(unsigned char ) tempSize[3];
    videoFile.close(  );
    return frames;
}