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foxglove_compressed_video_transport

  • Software
  • Perception
  • Library

A ROS 2 image transport plugin that encodes camera frames into Foxglove CompressedVideo messages using FFmpeg, so they can be recorded in rosbags and viewed in Foxglove Studio.

Made by ros-misc-utilities.

Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-misc-utilities/foxglove_compressed_video_tra… (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 5e475b3 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 5e475b3 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Encodes frames with FFmpeg libav encoders, defaulting to the CPU-based libx264 encoder.
  • Hardware-accelerated encoders such as h264_nvenc or h264_vaapi can be selected where available.
  • Encoding is configured through parameters under the foxglove block, including encoder, bit rate, and quantization limits.
  • The gop_size parameter must be set to 1 for Foxglove compatibility.
  • Output messages can be recorded in a rosbag for later processing.
  • The subscriber decoder is provided for testing only and is not supported.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 5e475b3.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
Newest commit
29 Jun 2026 on master
Latest release
None published on GitHub

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

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No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

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