Problem displaying webcam on Beaglebone Black ROS Hydro

asked 2014-06-12 09:48:15 -0600

Alvin
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Hi everyone,

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and ROS Hydro installed on a Beaglebone Black and I am trying to connect a webcam to it. When I do lsusb, i see the webcam listed and it is recognized as /dev/video0. However, when I run:

rosrun usb_cam usb_cam_node

I get this error at the bottom:

[ INFO] [1402520069.293107674]: Camera name: head_camera
[ INFO] [1402520069.296888674]: Camera info url: 
[ INFO] [1402520069.301380049]: usb_cam video_device set to [/dev/video0]

[ INFO] [1402520069.304736965]: usb_cam io_method set to [mmap]

[ INFO] [1402520069.307870465]: usb_cam image_width set to [640]

[ INFO] [1402520069.311110715]: usb_cam image_height set to [480]

[ INFO] [1402520069.314403132]: usb_cam pixel_format set to [mjpeg]

[ INFO] [1402520069.317508174]: usb_cam auto_focus set to [0]

[swscaler @ 0x3f640] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[ INFO] [1402520069.502437715]: using default calibration URL
[ INFO] [1402520069.506553799]: camera calibration URL: file:///home/ubuntu/.ros/camera_info/head_camera.yaml
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.
[swscaler @ 0x3fee0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv422p to rgb24.

Is there a way to fix this conversion issue? Googling hasn't helped me much with this. I appreciate any kind of help...thanks!

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Does your webcam work on a pc running similar ubuntu version? if not, the problem is probably not with the beagle. in a quick scan of the kernel source webcams are controlled by drivers/usb/gadget/webcam.c, which doesn't do data conversions. There is no beagle specific camera code except for cameras on capes. Can you change the camera to some other mode, and retest? Finally as the other responder points out the messages are prefixed by 'INFO', which in Unix usually means they are not fatal.

miltmobley ( 2014-06-29 16:17:00 -0600 )edit

It works! I just had to view the images from a laptop instead

Alvin ( 2014-07-09 10:47:51 -0600 )edit

Alvin, What were your setting with Rviz? Thanks, Brent

Morpheus ( 2016-01-14 11:19:21 -0600 )edit

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I finally realized that! So while I ran usb_cam on the beaglebone, I ran rviz on a laptop to view the published images from usb_cam. So even with the conversion msg popping up, I can still view the image from the webcam.

Alvin ( 2014-07-09 10:45:25 -0600 )edit

When this error/warning appears one can't have access to the compressed topic. Is there any solution for that? I want to make a rosbag, however the uncompressed topic makes bagfiles really big really fast.

nvoltex ( 2015-02-24 11:04:06 -0600 )edit

@nvoltex that message is normal; it probably isn't related to your problem. Please ask a new question.

ahendrix ( 2015-02-24 21:53:33 -0600 )edit

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