Image transport for compressed video messages

[rcodddow]

Currently I am not aware of any way to generate foxglove CompressedVideo messages or convert CompressedVideo messages to sensor_msgs/Image. Is there a compressvideo image transport plugin that you could make available ?

Im not against writing my own as the blog post suggests forking the ffmpeg_image_transport package and making the necessary changes to the message structure. However, I would like to avoid this if possible.

[jtbandes]

I believe someone else in the community has already worked on this: https://github.com/angsa-robotics/ffmpeg_image_transport

[berndpfrommer]

I just finished a package that does that. Submitted to rosdistro for indexing.

[defunctzombie]

This is awesome! Any desire to collaborate on a blog post to do a mini tutorial on how to use the package?

[berndpfrommer]

Sure, we can do, but I'd like to see the package at least tested before announcing it to a wider audience. I haven't used foxglove yet so I don't know if it works as expected. We need to make sure the encoding parameters are set correctly.