[ros-users] Digital Camera 1394 in ROS?

[Kurt Konolige]

All -

I would recommend a driver that uses libdc1394, since this package has
a lot of functionality, and is actively supported.

Cheers --Kurt

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/10/2010 6:17 PM, Jack O'Quin wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Blaise Gassend
>>
>>> set_camera_info shouldn't affect rviz's ability to view the image. It is
>>> only used to calibrate the camera. One thing that might prevent rviz
>>> from viewing the image is if the image is encoded using an unsupported
>>> color encoding. Have you tried doing a:
>>>
>>> rostopic echo image_topic/encoding
>>>
>>> That would show you how the colors are encoded.
>>
>> I'm looking at it right now (using Patrick's driver).  It's publishing
>> "rgb8". It also does not currently provide CameraInfo.
>>
>> The rviz doc seems to say it needs CameraInfo, but does not mention
>> which color encodings it supports.
>>
>> Where can I find that list?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> A few quick things
>
> 1) I can use it with rviz.  Jack, I'll shoot you an email tomorrow with
> the rviz config that I use.  Remind me if I forget.
>
> 2) My driver started as a port from Player, but I've replaced and added
> a lot of functionality (e.g. Bayer filtering) with built-in libdc1394
> functions.
>
> 3) Jack, once you get into this, I might bend your ear to help me do the
> same for a unified Swissranger 3000/4000 driver.  I have a version that
> I expanded from Rasu's 3K driver that adds new functionality for 4K
> devices.   I also have a color camera/pointcloud registration node )with
> calibration utility) that would probably go in this stack (but could be
> used for stereo cameras).  I haven't looked around recently to see if
> others exist, but I don't remember seeing anything that worked in ros
>  >=0.9 several months back.
>
>
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