VideoReader command windows 7

I am trying to open a 10 sec video on Matlab 2013b and putting this command

obj = VideoReader(‘D:\TEMP\newvideo10seco.mp4’)

but I keep getting this error

obj = VideoReader(‘D:\TEMP\newvideo10seco.mp4’)
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Error: The input character is not valid in MATLAB statements or expressions.

Any suggestion???

Answer 1

[Jan]

The error message is clear:

obj = VideoReader(‘D:\TEMP\newvideo10seco.mp4’)
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Error: The input character is not valid in MATLAB statements or expressions.

Do you see the bar? It points to the bad character, which is a ‘ . This is not the straight quote ' . Your ‘ is char(8216), not char(39). Try this:

obj = VideoReader('D:\TEMP\newvideo10seco.mp4')

This happens, if you copy code from a PDF or Word file, which used a smart adjustment of quotes to make them nicer. Tell the author to avoid beautification of Matlab code.

[Safiullah Kabir]

Thanks a lot, I didn't notice that at first but I made it to the next step.