Overview

This is a third party package with external documentation.

This experimental package is provided to paper over different versions of the library provided on various supported systems, especially Ubuntu Hardy with the ROS Box Turtle release. It will remain until support for those releases is dropped.

Future ROS releases will not support Hardy, which does not have particularly reliable 1394 kernel drivers, anyway.

ROS drivers

This package just wraps the libdc1394v2 library. It provides no ROS nodes.

The camera1394 ROS driver is a candidate for inclusion in the next ROS release, completely integrated into the image_pipeline. To run it with Box Turtle, check out this entire stack, it has internal dependencies including a copy of the libdc1394 package:

svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/branches/trunk_boxturtle/stacks/camera_drivers_experimental

Another generic Firewire driver with ROS bindings and many useful features can be found in the cameradc1394 package in the CMU repository. You can download the source with:

svn co `roslocate svn cameradc1394` cameradc1394