rosbag2video.py
rosbag to video file conversion tool
by Maximilian Laiacker 2020
post@mlaiacker.de
with contributions from Abel Gabor 2019
baquatelle@gmail.com
ffmpeg is needed and can be installed on Ubuntu with:
sudo apt install ffmpeg
ros and other stuff
sudo apt install python3-roslib python3-sensor-msgs python3-opencv
rosbag2video.py [--fps 25] [--rate 1] [-o outputfile] [-v] [-s] [-t topic] bagfile1 [bagfile2] ...
Converts image sequence(s) in ros bag file(s) to video file(s) with fixed frame rate using ffmpeg
ffmpeg needs to be installed!
--fps Sets FPS value that is passed to ffmpeg
Default is 25.
-h Displays this help.
--ofile (-o) sets output file name.
If no output file name (-o) is given the filename '<prefix><topic>.mp4' is used and default output codec is h264.
Multiple image topics are supported only when -o option is _not_ used.
ffmpeg will guess the format according to given extension.
Compressed and raw image messages are supported with mono8 and bgr8/rgb8/bggr8/rggb8 formats.
--rate (-r) You may slow down or speed up the video.
Default is 1.0, that keeps the original speed.
-s Shows each and every image extracted from the rosbag file (cv_bride is needed).
--topic (-t) Only the images from topic "topic" are used for the video output.
-v Verbose messages are displayed.
--prefix (-p) set a output file name prefix othervise 'bagfile1' is used (if -o is not set).
--start Optional start time in seconds.
--end Optional end time in seconds.
./rosbag2video.py camera_and_state.bag
rosbag2video, by Maximilian Laiacker 2020 and Abel Gabor 2019
############# COMPRESSED IMAGE ######################
/image_raw/compressed with datatype: sensor_msgs/CompressedImage
frame= 77 fps= 13 q=28.0 size= 1280kB time=00:00:00.96 bitrate=10922.2kbits/s speed=0.156x