Using the "Player" package

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If you want to get a camera running with ros, wrapping player is usually not the way to go. Instead, you should try to find a ROS driver that supports the camera.

We also have a Logitech Quickcam Orbit/Sphere (vendor/product ID 046d:08b5), and got it running by modifying the uvc_camera package. We didn't release it yet because the clean way to go would be to integrate our hack into the uvc_camera package instead of releasing yet another fork.

I've uploaded a snapshot here:

git clone <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/mguenthe/git/uos-camera_umd.git">http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/mguenthe/git/uos-camera_umd.git</a>

Update: I've uploaded the current version of the package here: https://github.com/mintar/uos-camera_umd . It runs on Fuerte, Groovy, Hydro. Still a very bad hack. :-)

What are you expecting it to do?

The ROS player package is mostly only used to support the Erratic robot.

At the University of Ulster we wrote wrappers for several player proxies. You can find them in our stack: Player Interface. The code does not have a proper documentation, but it should be straightforward to use. Please contact me if you need any information on how to use the code.