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Tools like rostopic hz and rostopic bw are useful for determining how quickly your device is publishing data. If the bandwidth is too high, your system may be having trouble storing it fast enough.

You say the pointclouds are being recorded as video. With image_transport, compressed JPEG video can be recorded by appending /compressed to the topic name.

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