On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Patrick Bouffard <
patrick.m.bouffard@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've also noticed that you can drop the _image_transport:= entirely,
> and just enter something like:
>
> %rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/image_raw compressed
>
> Though I'm not sure if this is recommended/supported.
>

image_view explicitly supports that syntax as a shorthand for
_image_transport:=foo as mentioned in the
docs<http://www.ros.org/wiki/image_view>.
For other nodes you'll normally need to use the _image_transport syntax.

Patrick