I usually use "rostopic echo" to capture messages to a file and then "rostopic pub" to republish them at my leisure. rosbag seems like what you are looking for but you specifically say you don't want it. Why is that? Dave On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ivan Dryanovski wrote: > On 17-Oct-12 18:19, Brian Gerkey wrote: > >> hi Ivan, >> >> Have you looked at rosh's bagys? >> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosh/**Overview/Bagys >> >> > Hi Brian, > > I was not aware of that, thanks for pointing it out. > > Actually I am less interested in the serialization mechanism itself. Any > format would do, but the useful part for me would be the ability to display > it in rviz. > > Providing rviz displays with an URI option for a bagy seems like a > reasonable solution. > > This could also be extended to support binary messages, when the bagy YAML > format is not needed (large, non-human-readable messages). > > > Ivan > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/**listinfo/ros-users >