Frame extraction by timestamp

[jadechoghari]

Describe the question.

Hello,

is it possible to extract the exact frame based on a specified timestamp? for example if i pass [2.7600, 2.7800, 2.8000, 2.8200, 2.8400] I would get 5 frames corresponding to these timestamps returned (one video).

cc @JanuszL

Thank you 🤗!

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[awolant]

Hell @jadechoghari

thanks for the question. I think you are looking for enable_timestamps argument of our video reader

It works together with file_list argument. You can create a list and pass desired frames as list items. Is that enough for your use case?

[jadechoghari]

Hey!
I tried but it seems you can only pass a range say from 5.1 to 5.2 sec and it will sample from this range. any way to get exact timestamp?

Take torchcodec for example :

# initialize video decoder
decoder = VideoDecoder(video_path, device=device, seek_mode="approximate")
# ...
frames_batch = decoder.get_frames_at(indices=frame_indices)

[awolant]

Sure, I understand now. I am afraid that currently there is now way to get arbitrary frames by timestamp. I will mark this issue as a possible enhancement to the new video reader that we actively improve at the moment.

Do I understand correctly that API matching torchcodec would be something you are looking for?

[jadechoghari]

yes exactly! it will be used in robotics!