shell commands used to extract and downsample video to numpy arrray

video_to_dataset.sh

# install Anaconda to control the environment: https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#linux
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2018.12-Linux-x86_64.sh
chmod +x Anaconda3-2018.12-Linux-x86_64.sh
./Anaconda3-2018.12-Linux-x86_64.sh
# answer to the installation prompts

# activate environment and install the required libraries
conda create -n vid2frame
conda activate vid2frame
conda install opencv scipy

# there are plenty of nice target videos here: https://www.sample-videos.com/
wget https://www.sample-videos.com/video123/mp4/240/big_buck_bunny_240p_1mb.mp4
mv big_buck_bunny_240p_1mb.mp4 vid.mp4

# download the script for extracting and downsampling (https://gist.github.com/dsalaj/b9143289784fbd7f741518301e6037ce)
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dsalaj/b9143289784fbd7f741518301e6037ce/raw/075d61d2d3fa534f7af3d8ca2cc82efb05ab9a02/extract_frames.py
python3 extract_frames.py

# finally use frames_data.npy for supervised training target