Opencv Error on Ubuntu Webcam (Logitech C270) Capture -> HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L/V4L2: VIDIOC_S_CROP

If you don't feel like debugging the problem, and the frames from your webcam are being displayed without any issues, your option is to just shoot the messenger. The instructions below work if you have built OpenCV from source, as opposed to installing pre-built binaries.

Start with grep -R "Corrupt JPEG data" ~/src/opencv-2.4.4/ and go deeper into the rabbit hole until you find what you want. In my case the culprit is at opencv-2.4.4/thirdparty/libjpeg/jdmarker.c:908:

  if (cinfo->marker->discarded_bytes != 0) {
    WARNMS2(cinfo, JWRN_EXTRANEOUS_DATA, cinfo->marker->discarded_bytes, c);
    cinfo->marker->discarded_bytes = 0;
  }

The WARNMS2 macro is what's causing the error messages about extraneous data to be printed. Just comment it out, rebuild OpenCV and carry on with your work. I also have a C270, run Ubuntu 12.04, and experienced the same nagging error message until I did what I described above.

About issue:

Corrupt JPEG data: 2 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd1 Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd6 Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd0 Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd0

Looks like, the issue is in libjpeg library. For some unknown reason it works incorrect under OpenCV library. I tried to compile without support of JPEG and it solved this issue.

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -D BUILD_TESTS=OFF -D BUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -D WITH_JPEG=OFF -D WITH_IPP=OFF ..

You can find all details in my blog:

http://privateblog.by/linux/opencv-i-corrupt-jpeg-data-na-linux/

The width of an image is given by its number of columns. Your code should be

cout << "Mat width: " << frame.cols << endl;
cout << "Mat height: " << frame.rows << endl;

So there is no swap between width and height.