How To: Fix “No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to bgr24.” | OpenCV-2.2.0 & Ubu

This problem is basically an issue converting YUV to RGB using ffmpeg, in order for it to work ffmpeg needs to be recompiled with x264. To get around it use the following to recompile ffmpeg and OpenCV 2.1/2.2:This problem is basically an issue converting Y