hello! thank you for the contribution!

I see that your sample is very similar to opencv/samples/cpp/starter_video.cpp.
I think, it's better to tweak a little starter_video.cpp to handle both cases (camera and video file/image sequence).
Could you please do that?

Vadim

Yeah its almost the exact same example because the functionality of cv::VideoCapture works like this (which is a good thing and its what I want to demonstrate).

The issue I see is that if I modify the starter_video.cpp sample someone inexperienced looking for how to read image sequences probably won't open that sample. I don't know what the best way to proceed is, I see the concern for having similar samples.

Hi Kevin,
I understand. So, this is a question of finding the sample code. Of course, there are many similar problems in OpenCV. We have hundreds of functions and we cannot have that many samples. Then it comes down to using tags or something like that. We have idea of creating an annotated list of samples so that people can find the right sample more easily. For now you can put the note about reading an image sequence as a possible option to the starter_video sample, into help() function, the description it prints. That's the first place we will look at when we create such an annotated list of samples.

Good point - I'll merge my code with the existing starter_video.cpp and modify the comment block at the top to note this functionality.

I've updated the starter_video example and added a little extra to the documentation. What do you think?

Just came back to check on this and saw the build error, I fixed the problem, mix up between stable and development on my part.

The build bot status hasn't updated here on GitHub but checking the logs and it looks like it builds fine now

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