Hello,

i am currently trying to get a manta 609B from allied vision tech to work an an arm platform. Unfortunately no binary install is available yet. If i try to install it from source, the whole compilation process works well, but as soon as i try to start camera driver i get the following error:

[ERROR] [1439993319.314367411]: Failed to load nodelet [/prosilica_driver] of type [prosilica_camera/driver]: Failed to load library /home/odroid/test_ws/devel/lib//libprosilica_nodelet.so. Make sure that you are calling the PLUGINLIB_EXPORT_CLASS macro in the library code, and that names are consistent between this macro and your XML. Error string: Could not load library (Poco exception = libPvAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

I checked the the libraries. Both libprosilica_nodelet.so and libPvAPI.so can be found in the /devel/lib folder.

Thank you for your answers.

EDIT1: Changed to package avtvimbacamera and added the needed arm libraries. Result:

/home/odroid/test_ws/src/avt_vimba_camera/src/avt_vimba_camera.cpp: In constructor 'avt_vimba_camera::AvtVimbaCamera::AvtVimbaCamera()':
/home/odroid/test_ws/src/avt_vimba_camera/src/avt_vimba_camera.cpp:87:84: warning: delegating constructors only available with -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 [enabled by default]
 AvtVimbaCamera::AvtVimbaCamera() : AvtVimbaCamera(ros::this_node::getName().c_str()) {
                                                                                    ^
g++-4.8.real: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [avt_vimba_camera/CMakeFiles/stereo_camera_node.dir/src/nodes/stereo_camera_node.cpp.o] Error 4
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Linking CXX executable /home/odroid/test_ws/devel/lib/avt_vimba_camera/mono_camera_node
make[1]: *** [avt_vimba_camera/CMakeFiles/stereo_camera_node.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[100%] Built target mono_camera_node
make: *** [all] Error 2
Invoking "make -j8 -l8" failed

EDIT2: I installed the AVT Software - Vimba v1.3 ARMHard-Float. Now i can use my Manta G609B with the package avtvimba_camera on my odroid XU3 . Unfortunately there are some frame rate restrictions. Depending on the resolution it will lower the frame rate automatically:

[ INFO] [1440425646.889163949]: New PixelFormat config (manta) : 
    PixelFormat : Mono8 was Mono8
[ INFO] [1440425646.899412146]: Asking for feature AcquisitionFrameRateLimit with datatype float and value 8.86603
[ WARN] [1440425646.900022564]: Max frame rate allowed: 8.86603. Setting 8...

Any ideas?

EDIT3: So i realized that the Odroid XU3 has just a FAST Ethernet controller... But no problem, i switched to an XU4, which has an GIG Ethernet Controller. But as always i got into more troubles: I am using the same launch file on the XU3, even the same microsd card!! So basically same system! The cameranode crashes after some time and it shows a really strange behavior... If i don't subscriber to the camera topic it runs forever. If i subscribe, for example with rostopic hz to check the frame rate, it crashes after some time. If i use imageview, i get the following error message from time to time:

[ERROR] [1356999010.655579398]: Unable to convert 'mono8' image to bgr8: 'Image is wrongly formed: step < width * byte_depth * num_channels  or  1135 != 1280 * 1 * 1'

and then it crashes. The same stuff is running perfectly on my odroid XU3, but with a lower frame rate. Unfortunately i can't check the log file of the crash, because it doesn't exist. It looks a bit like some kind of packet loss on the Ethernet connection or? So i tested it with an USB3 to Gig Ethernet Adapter. Now i can get a higher framerates on the XU3, but the camera node crashes like on the XU4.

ANSWER: It turns out that the ethernet controller of the odroid is the bottleneck. It is only capable of a MTU packet size of around 4078.