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I have written a subscriber to one of the image topics and I have set my buffer to 1 using:
subscriber =rospy.Subscriber("/camera/rgb/image_mono/compressed",CompressedImage, callback, queue_size=1)
However my subscriber still lags behind. Any idea what might be causing this? Am I setting the queue size correctly?
It sounds like the lag you're seeing is caused by the image processing that you're doing.
If you're seeing one new image displayed by your algorithm every 5-10 seconds, then it's probably working properly, and the lag you see is the result of your processing time.
Asked: 2014-10-16 18:41:17 -0500
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Last updated: Oct 17 '14
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How much lag are you seeing? How are you measuring it?
Does it also lag if you display the pointcloud in RViz?
@ahendrix Its about 5 to 10 seconds of lag. Basically when I look at the screen it shows images of things that happened 5 to 10 swconds ago.
@BennyRe I tried it on on image_view and theres no lag but that is because I do a lot of processing on the image before I display it (cv2.imshow) . Now I cannot process at the rate that the publisher is publishing and so what I want to do is drop any messages that arrive while I am processing.