ffmpeg video to opengl texture

Is the texture initialized when you
call glTexSubImage2D? You need to
call glTexImage2D (not Sub) one
time to initialize the texture object.
Use NULL for the data pointer, OpenGL
will then initialize a texture without
copying data.
answered

EDIT

You’re not supplying mipmaping levels. So did you disable mipmaping?

glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILER, linear_interpolation ? GL_LINEAR : GL_NEAREST);

EDIT 2 the image being upside down is no suprise as most image formats have the origin in the upper left, while OpenGL places the texture image’s origin in the lower left. That banding you see there looks like wrong row stride.

EDIT 3

I did this kind of stuff myself about a year ago. I wrote me a small wrapper for ffmpeg, I called it aveasy https://github.com/datenwolf/aveasy

And this is some code to put the data fetched using aveasy into OpenGL textures:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>

#include <GL/glew.h>

#include "camera.h"
#include "aveasy.h"

#define CAM_DESIRED_WIDTH 640
#define CAM_DESIRED_HEIGHT 480

AVEasyInputContext *camera_av;
char const *camera_path = "/dev/video0";
GLuint camera_texture;

int open_camera(void)
{
    glGenTextures(1, &camera_texture);

    AVEasyInputContext *ctx;

    ctx = aveasy_input_open_v4l2(
        camera_path,
        CAM_DESIRED_WIDTH,
        CAM_DESIRED_HEIGHT,
        CODEC_ID_MJPEG,
        PIX_FMT_BGR24 );
    camera_av = ctx;

    if(!ctx) {
        return 0;
    }

    /* OpenGL-2 or later is assumed; OpenGL-2 supports NPOT textures. */
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, camera_texture[i]);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
    glTexImage2D(
        GL_TEXTURE_2D,  
        0,
        GL_RGB, 
        aveasy_input_width(ctx),
        aveasy_input_height(ctx),
        0,
        GL_BGR,
        GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
        NULL );

    return 1;
}

void update_camera(void)
{
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_SWAP_BYTES, GL_FALSE );
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_LSB_FIRST,  GL_TRUE  );
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH, 0 );
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_SKIP_PIXELS, 0);
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_SKIP_ROWS, 0);
    glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);

    AVEasyInputContext *ctx = camera_av;
    void *buffer;

    if(!ctx)
        return;

    if( !( buffer = aveasy_input_read_frame(ctx) ) )
        return;

    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, camera_texture);
    glTexSubImage2D(
        GL_TEXTURE_2D,
        0,
        0,
        0,
        aveasy_input_width(ctx),
        aveasy_input_height(ctx),
        GL_BGR,
        GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
        buffer );
}


void close_cameras(void)
{
    aveasy_input_close(camera_av);
    camera_av=0;
}

I’m using this in a project and it works there, so this code is tested, sort of.