# if the video writer is None *AND* we are supposed to write
	# the output video to disk initialize the writer
	if writer is None and args["output"] is not None:
		fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*"MJPG")
		writer = cv2.VideoWriter(args["output"], fourcc, 20,
			(frame.shape[1], frame.shape[0]), True)

	# if the writer is not None, write the frame with recognized
	# faces to disk
	if writer is not None:
		writer.write(frame)