Jack O'Quin wrote:
> No, but a question for the ROS community: are there tools to convert
> ROS Image bags to and from AVI format?

There's no tools right now, but it shouldn't be hard to write some. The former (to avi) could be done using 
bag_to_images and then mencoder. The latter (from avi) would require you to write something new based on rosbag's record 
C++ API.

Cheers,
Radu.
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