Reading raw/encoded video?

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^{Originally posted by daveisfera April 28, 2022} Is it possible to read the raw/encoded video from a file? Basically, the standard way of using imageio decodes each frame of the video into an image, but is there a way to read the raw frames that are still encoded?

On a similar note, is there a way to read the encoded frames when “writing” a video? (i.e. access them in the memory of the application instead of them being written to a file)</div>

@daveisfera I’m converting your discussion into an issue, and I will answer in a dedicated comment below.

So far we haven’t been using discussions, and I don’t think there is so much velocity in the issues that we loose track of questions like this 😃 I will also close down discussions to avoid confusion in the future (@almarklein please let me know if you have any objections to this.)

[daveisfera]

I got a hacky version of it working with .mkv files by reading the file directly, but I’ll play with using pyav in the future and you can close this.

[FirefoxMetzger]

@daveisfera Did you make any headway on this problem and/or is this still an issue for you?

Since ImageIO doesn’t support streams at the moment I’m tempted to close the issue; however, there might be an opportunity for an enhancement here. What do you think?