How do I do what aviread used to do using videoreader?

I upgraded Matlab and things that used to be easy are now much more complicated. I could rewrite movie2avi pretty quickly, but videoreader is a worse when trying to created the functionality of aviread. I can get the frames, but colormap is missing. Why did they think we would want to replace one line with a dozen, including a for loop?

[Jan]

The forum cannot answer your question about the intention of the MathWorks staff. So do you have a question the forum can answer or is this just a statement about your level of frustration?

Which problem do you try to solve?

[Chuck37]

The title of my question is the question. The venting of frustration is incidental.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

videoreader readframe with 'native' option returns the usual cdata and colormap information . without the native option ind2rgb equivalent is automatically done returning the rgb version of the data .

The change was for efficiency . With aviread it always scanned the full file at the time it opened it and the buffer flow was not as good so it was slower and took more memory . The newer function is better for streaming type situations especially with larger videos that might not even fit in memory .

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

See attached video processing examples that use VideoReader().