Your current installation of OpenCV doesn't support the file format you are trying to create on disk.
Check if the extension of the file is right. If it is, you'll have to recompile OpenCV and add support to this format and possibly install the libraries you are missing.
That's all that can be said without more information.
EDIT:
As I have also failed building an application that uses the C++ interface of OpenCV (v2.3 on VS2005) I ended up using the following workaround: convert the C++ types to the C types when necessary.
To convert from IplImage*
to cv::Mat
is pretty straight forward:
IplImage* ipl_img = cvLoadImage("test.jpg", CV_LOAD_IMAGE_UNCHANGED);
Mat mat_img(ipl_img);
imshow("window", mat_img);
The conversion cv::Mat
to IplImage*
is not so obvious, but it's also simple, and the trick is to use a IplImage
instead of a IplImage*
:
IplImage ipl_from_mat((IplImage)mat_img);
cvNamedWindow("window", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
// and then pass the memory address of the variable when you need it as IplImage*
cvShowImage("window", &ipl_from_mat);
Best Answer
The problem was due to mixing up debugging and release builds. If building in debug mode, the debug libs are needed. On unix this dont seem to be a problem.