cvCreateFileCapture strange error - c

Question

i'm trying to create a simple Opencv program in C that creates a file capture from a .avi, and it plays it in a window highlighting faces. I'm running a self-compiled version of Opencv (i already tried the same with a jpeg image and it works).
Building goes well, no errors, no warning, but when i launch it this the console output this:
Unknown parameter encountered: "server role"
Ignoring unknown parameter "server role"
And the program simply stops
Previously it was complaining for a missing /home/#user/.smb/smb.conf file, so i tried installing samba ( even though i've still no idea what does samba have to do in all this )
here is my code:
main(){
printf("Ciao!");
cvNamedWindow("window", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cvWaitKey(0);
printf("ok");
CvCapture* capture = cvCreateFileCapture("monsters.avi");
CvHaarClassifierCascade* cascade = load_object_detector("haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml");
CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
//List of the faces
CvSeq* faces;
while (0<10) {
CvArr* image = cvQueryFrame(capture);
double scale = 1;
faces = cvHaarDetectObjects(image,cascade, storage, 1.2, 2, CV_HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING, cvSize(1,1), cvSize(300,300));
int i;
for(i = 0; i < faces->total; i++ )
{
CvRect face_rect = *(CvRect*)cvGetSeqElem( faces, i );
cvRectangle( image,
cvPoint(face_rect.x*scale,face_rect.y*scale),
cvPoint((face_rect.x+face_rect.width)*scale,(face_rect.y+face_rect.height)*scale),
CV_RGB(255,0,0) , 3, 8, 0);
}
cvReleaseMemStorage( &storage );
cvShowImage("window", image);
}
cvWaitKey(0);
printf("Ciao!");
}
I thank you for your answer, i switched to C++ for my trials. Now i did this:
int main(){
namedWindow("Video", CV_WINDOW_FREERATIO);
VideoCapture cap("sintel.mp4");
if(!cap.isOpened()) // check if we succeeded
return -1;
Mat edges;
for(;;){
Mat frame;
cap>>frame;
cvtColor(frame, edges, CV_BGR2GRAY);
GaussianBlur(edges, edges, Size(7,7), 1.5, 1.5);
Canny(edges, edges, 0, 30, 3);
imshow("Video", edges);
//cvWaitKey(0);
}
return(0);
}
Now it succesfully load the video and query a frame, evry time i press a key it obviously query another frame and everything works fine, but if i comment the waitkey() the program simply hangs for a bit and crashes if i try to close the window, i'm starting to think there is a problem with codecs or something like that...

Answer 1

There are so many potential problems in the code, most of them related to not coding defensively.
What is cvWaitKey(0); doing after cvNamedWindow()? It's unecessary, remove it!
What happens if the capture was unsucessful? Code defensively:
CvCapture* capture = cvCreateFileCapture("monsters.avi");
if (!capture)
{
// File not found, handle error and possibly quit the application
}
and you should use this technique for every pointer that you receive from OpenCV, ok?
One of the major problems, is that you allocate memory for CvMemStorage before the loop, but inside the loop you release it, which means that after the first loop iteration there will be no longer a valid CvMemStorage* storage, and that's a HUGE problem.
Either move the allocation procedure to the beginning of the loop, so on every iteration memory is allocated/deallocated, or move the cvReleaseMemStorage( &storage ); call out of the loop.

Answer 2

Now it works fine, i changed cvWaitKey() with this
if(waitKey(30) >= 0) break;
I don't understand exactly why but now everything works as it should :)