[ros-users] Digital Camera 1394 in ROS?

Kurt Konolige konolige at willowgarage.com
Thu Mar 11 20:37:29 UTC 2010


I like the basic idea of Gstreamer, but the dc1394 plugin is marked
"bad" (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html)
and there isn't an active link to it.

Cheers --Kurt

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jeff Rousseau <jrousseau at aptima.com> wrote:
> Gstreamer ships with pretty much any modern distro: Ubuntu, Fedora,
> Gentoo, etc...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GStreamer
>
> It isn't very GNOME-specific either, it ships in embedded devices like
> the Palm Pre, and the Nokia 770 and Nxx Internet tablets.  A bunch of
> KDE projects use it as it's audio backend as well (usually through Phonon)
>
> Jeff
>
>
> Blaise Gassend wrote:
>>> On your last point, I understand your reluctance to add *yet another*
>>> dependency to the camera_stack and probe is very likely to generic to
>>> be considered a part of a camera stack proper. Still, it is very
>>> flexible and can be very useful for building imaging toolchains with
>>> ROS. This should be even more true once the nodelet interface has
>>> solidified.
>>>
>>
>> For me, the question would be how widespread gstreamer is. If it is part
>> of all supported distributions, then having a system dependency on it
>> isn't a problem for me. Even if gstreamer is not available on a system,
>> that will only cause problems when compiling the package that needs
>> gstreamer, so only people that need that particular package will have a
>> problem.
>>
>> Blaise
>>
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