On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Blaise Gassend
<blaise@willowgarage.com> wrote:

> set_camera_info shouldn't affect rviz's ability to view the image. It is
> only used to calibrate the camera. One thing that might prevent rviz
> from viewing the image is if the image is encoded using an unsupported
> color encoding. Have you tried doing a:
>
> rostopic echo image_topic/encoding
>
> That would show you how the colors are encoded.

The encoding appears to be OK (rgb8). The problem seems to be that
neither DC1394 driver is publishing the sensor_msgs/CameraInfo topic.
I was confusing that with the sensor_msgs/SetCameraInfo service
request (also missing at present).

It seems that rviz *does* depend on CameraInfo. That should be simple
to add to the drivers.

SetCameraInfo may be more difficult. I don't know enough about the
code yet to say.
-- 
 joq