hi Piyush, That sounds great, and thanks for volunteering to take on that important piece of code! brian. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Piyush wrote: > To add to Brian's email: > 1) The libfreenect API is sufficient to replicate the OpenNI ROS > driver. As Brian mentioned, OpenNI itself supports more functionality > (see openni.org). I actually don't know how well this extended > functionality was supported in ROS, since I have never touched it. > 2) I am willing to take ownership/maintenance of a libfreenect based > driver. The Kinect is the primary sensor on our robots, and I don't > want to find an alternative at this stage. If you plan on using this > libfreenect based driver on a platform other than Ubuntu, I will need > help with testing/patches. > > About the audio: > 1) libfreenect mentions the audio, but it is not well documented. > 2) This won't be very high on my priority list. Patches enabling > support will be more than welcome. > > In either case, I'll move ahead with the driver as I find time later > this week and work on a rosrelease. > > Thanks! > Piyush > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Patrick Goebel wrote: >> I hope this isn't too far off topic, but if the driver gurus out there do >> some work on either the openni or freenect versions, it would be awesome to >> get some audio support for the Kinect's microphones (ditto for the Xtion if >> possible). This thread on ros-kinect seems to suggest that audio support is >> still in a state of flux. I can think of three aspects of driver support >> (not having a clue how to write a driver myself) that would be nice to have >> in ROS: >> >> * basic audio (used as a regular audio input source) >> * noise canceling (not sure if that takes place in the firmware or driver) >> * sound localization >> >> --patrick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users