I have image_view running but I cant seem to send a recorded bag file I got from kinect I just get a lot of crap dumped to the screen #!/usr/bin/env python import roslib; roslib.load_manifest('beginner_tutorials') import rospy import rosbag from sensor_msgs.msg import Image def bagread(): pub = rospy.Publisher('image', Image) rospy.init_node('kinectsender') bag = rosbag.Bag('/home/chris/bagfiles/kinectDepthVideo.bag') for topic, msg, t in bag.read_messages(topics=['/kinect/depth/image_raw']): pub.publish(Image(msg)) bag.close() if __name__ == '__main__': bagread() -- Chris Aluminium Replacement Parts @arpartsau