[ros-users] Firewire camera synchronization

[Jack O'Quin]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Thomas Moulard
<thomas.moulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Patrick Mihelich
> <mihelich at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> image_pipeline is still due for a significant overhaul before Diamondback.
>> That was scheduled for November, but got pushed back as I've been busy with
>> other things. Approximate synchronization in stereo_image_proc will
>> definitely happen in Diamondback.
>
> Ok, thanks!
>
> Just to make things clear: it will still not be a good solution for
> firewire camera users
> as images will still be unsynchronized. Only one process grabbing two
> cameras will solve
> this issue with high end firewire cameras such as the Flea2 which send
> automatically synchronized frames
> when the acquisition is done atomically.
>
> Hopefully, adding the possibility to use camera1394 as nodelets may
> help solving this problem in a clean way.
> Is it still planned for DiamondBlack?

Yes.

I'm wishing for nodelet support in the image_pipeline soon, so I can
test with it.
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 joq