Is it possible to display an OpenCV video inside the IPython /JuPyter Notebook?

Question

When running the examples from the OpenCV video processing python tutorials, they all pop up in a dedicated window. I know that the IPython notebook can display videos from disk and YouTube, so I wonder if there is a way to direct the OpenCV video playback to the Notebook browser and have it play in the output cell instead of a separate window (preferably without saving it to disk and then playing it from there).

Below is the code from the OpenCV tutorial.

import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture('/path/to/video') 

while(True):
    # Capture frame-by-frame
    ret, frame = cap.read()

    # Our operations on the frame come here
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    # Display the resulting frame
    cv2.imshow('frame',gray)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

# When everything done, release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Answer 1

You can do it with Bokeh and probably it is a bit faster.

from bokeh.plotting import figure
from bokeh.io import output_notebook, show, push_notebook
import cv2
import time
output_notebook()

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
ret, frame = cap.read()
frame=cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGBA) # because Bokeh expects a RGBA image
frame=cv2.flip(frame, -1) # because Bokeh flips vertically
width=frame.shape[1]
height=frame.shape[0]
p = figure(x_range=(0,width), y_range=(0,height), output_backend="webgl", width=width, height=height)
myImage = p.image_rgba(image=[frame], x=0, y=0, dw=width, dh=height)
show(p, notebook_handle=True)
while True:
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    frame=cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGBA)
    frame=cv2.flip(frame, -1)
    myImage.data_source.data['image']=[frame]
    push_notebook()
    time.sleep(0.3)