On 09/01/2010 05:49 PM, Tim Field wrote:
> Sure.  It may be easier to just use rosbag play on a bag in which the 
> message timestamps have been rewritten to their header timestamp (if 
> available), i.e.
>
>     import roslib; roslib.load_manifest('rosbag')
>     import sys, rosbag
>     outbag = rosbag.Bag(sys.argv[2], 'w')
>     try:
>         for topic, msg, t in rosbag.Bag(sys.argv[1]).read_messages():
>             outbag.write(topic, msg, msg.header.stamp if
>     msg._has_header else t)
>     finally:
>         outbag.close()
>

Great, thanks Tim! That's exactly the postprocessing that I was looking 
for (and I wasn't even aware of that nice Python rosbag API)!

I just had to filter out "rosout" because a few messages from way in the 
past delayed the real messages for too long, but otherwise all looks 
fine at a first glance.

Is that worth adding as a full script to rosbag, or at least to mention 
it in the wiki somewhere? I will definitely use that more often to get 
better screencaptures in RViz from bagfiles.

Cheers,
Armin

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