Dear Thomas, thank you for the reply. Well yes, if we had hardware synchronization that wouldn't be a problem, but we don't :))) the question is not actually how to fool the system so that the frames have identical timestamps, but how we could somehow synchronize the 2 processes so that they can perform as closely as possible to hardware synchronization. Right now, we are also fooling the system :P but we cannot rely on such a solution if we want to hope for vslam to work properly... What if there was a single driver (1 process) that would open both 1394 cameras and execute the capturing of the 2 frames as 2 sequential commands, one after the other? i think that is what is really missing here.. -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/vSLAM-demo-tp966627p2098405.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.