[ros-users] Videre camera and cameradc1394

[Jack O'Quin]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Antons Rebguns <arebgun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I actually just had the same problem. What I found out is that the firewire
> camera works fine with libdc1394 that is provided with Ubuntu (or latest
> version 2.1.2 from sourceforge) but not with lidc1394 package included with
> ROS. That is, running exactly the same code works fine libdc from Ubuntu's
> repos, but not with the version of libdc included in ROS.
>
> I've modified the Makefile of libdc1394 package to download a tarball from
> sourceforge and it seems to work fine. I was able to connect to my stereo
> cam and get images. Dominik, could you try that Makefile and let me know if
> that fixes you troubles? Also make sure you have rw access to /dev/raw1394.
> Every time you plug in the camera this file will be owned by root, unless
> you have some rules setup to change the group and/or permissions.

FYI (this may be a separate problem): I found a build dependency bug
in the libdc1394v2 ROS package yesterday. It needs libraw1394-dev
installed, otherwise it builds without it and generates a segfault on
connection.

  https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/3971
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 joq