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# VIDEO\_CAPTURE

`VideoFrameCaptureStep` is a pipeline step that configures how to extracts a single frame from a video each time inference is called. The video path is hard coded, mainly used for testing/demo purposes.

| Configs    | Descriptions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| filePath   | Location of the video file.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| outputKey  | Name of the output key where the image frame will be located. Default name is `image`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| loop       | Loop the video when it reaches the end. Default is set to `true`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| skipFrames | <p>Optional - Number of frames to skip between returned frames. If not set: No frames are skipped. For example:</p><p>Value 0: equivalent to no skipping.</p><p>Value 1: skip 1 frame between returned frames (i.e., return every 2nd frame).</p><p>Value 3: skip 2 frames between returned frames (i.e., return every 3rd frame) and so on.</p> |