Game Player - Step 1 - Setting Up and Using OpenCV

This is the part I hate the most because it can be fraught with errors and you can end up spending masses of time on what is essentially just setting up the environment. I don't mind spending ages on a problem when it is a problem in development or trying to work out how to solve a tricky algorithm issue but spending ages on just setting something up drives me mad. Hopefully it will go smoothly this time...