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I found the solution. The image_transport package was not fully installed; the plugins for type compressed and theora were not installed. So I built the remaining types from source, and it is working fine. I don't know why other plugins were not installed when they were supposed to be (e.g. when I typed the command sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-image-transport)

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