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open

Open file for writing video data

Syntax

Description

open(v) opens the file associated with v for writing. When you open the file, all properties of the object become read only. open discards all existing contents of the file.

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Examples

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Create a VideoWriter object to write a new Motion JPEG AVI file.

v = VideoWriter('newfile');

Open the file for writing.

open(v)

Write a 300-by-300 matrix of data to the file.

writeVideo(v,rand(300))

Close the file.

close(v)

Input Arguments

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Input VideoWriter object. Use VideoWriter to create the object.

Version History

Introduced in R2010b

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