Create a bag out of 16 bit images

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Hi,

I want to store a mono16 depth image to a bag The instructions here work for bit depth of 8 bits per pixel (either for mono or rgb8) but not for mono16 or 32FC1.

I'm getting an error from bag.py

field data[] exceeds specified width [uint8]

Where the problem occurs, the field_val is 1574 and the maxval is 256

How can I serialize a 16 bit image into bytes, and write it into the bag?

Thanks, Avner

EDIT1

Thanks for your answer @PeteBlackerThe3rd. With your answer here and the answer here I was able to use the example code as a base with the following changes:

diff grabdepth.orig.py grabdepth.new.py 
> 
> from PIL import Image as Image1
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<         np.save("./dframe"+str(i)+".npy",numpy_image)
<         cv2.imwrite("./dframe"+str(i)+".jpg", image_normal)
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>         np.save("/tmp/tmp1/dframe"+str(i)+".npy",numpy_image)
> 
>         # ok - workaround for bug in Pillow (https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/2970) for uint16 (via uint32)
>         ar32 = numpy_image.astype(np.uint32)
>         im1 = Image1.fromarray(ar32) # or more verbose as Image.fromarray(ar32, 'I')
> 
>         im1.save("/tmp/tmp1/dframe"+str(i)+".png")
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> 
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<         rospy.Subscriber("/camera/depth_registered/image_raw",Image,checkdepth)
<     
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>         rospy.Subscriber("/camera/camera/depth/image",Image,checkdepth)

With this, I successfully extracted 16 bit depth images from the bag into 16 bits-per-pixel image files.