This is a continuation question from Opencv video frame giving me an error I think I closed it off, Im new to Stackoverflow. I have code below that Im trying to see its Sobel edge image. However the program runs but the output is just a grey screen where if I mouseover the cursor disappears. Does anyone see the error? or is it a misunderstanding about the data structures Im using IplImage *frame, *frame_copy = 0; // capture frames from video CvCapture *capture = cvCaptureFromFile( "lightinbox1.avi"); //Allows Access to video propertys cvQueryFrame(capture); //Get the number of frames int nframe=(int) cvGetCaptureProperty(capture,CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT); //Name window cvNamedWindow( "video:", 1 ); //start loop for(int i=0;i<nframe;i++){ //prepare capture frame extraction cvGrabFrame(capture); cout<<"We are on frame "<<i<<"\n"; //Get this frame frame = cvRetrieveFrame( capture ); con2txt(frame); frame_copy = cvCreateImage(cvSize(frame->width,frame->height),IPL_DEPTH_8U,frame->nChannels ); //show and destroy frame cvCvtColor( frame,frame,CV_RGB2GRAY); //Create Sobel output frame_copy1 = cvCreateImage(cvSize(frame->width,frame->height),IPL_DEPTH_16S,1 ); cvSobel(frame_copy,frame_copy1,2,2,3); cvShowImage("video:",frame_copy1); cvWaitKey(33);} cvReleaseCapture(&capture);