Recording a Video

In this lesson we will learn how to record a video. TurtleBot has different image topics. We will work with /camera/rgb/image_raw.

NOTE: Sometimes recording a video does not work properly. In this case skip this lesson.

1. Launch Gazebo.

roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_world.launch

2. Open a new terminal and run:

roslaunch turtlebot_teleop keyboard_teleop.launch

3. In a new terminal run image_view.

rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/rgb/image_raw

4. Open a new terminal and make a directory.

mkdir ~/turtlebot_videos

5. Change directory.

cd ~/turtlebot_videos

6. Run video recorder.

rosrun image_view video_recorder image:=/camera/rgb/image_raw

You will see these strings in terminal:

[ INFO] [1453124521.982593277]: Waiting for topic /camera/rgb/image_raw...
[ INFO] [1453124522.175860991, 2771.980000000]: Starting to record MJPG video
at [640 x 480]@15fps. Press Ctrl+C to stop recording.

7. Move TurtleBot.

NOTE: The terminal with teleop launching has to be active all the time otherwise you won’t be able to operate the TurtleBot.

8. Press Ctrl+C to finish recording. You will see these strings in terminal:

^CINFO] [1453124549.590776602, 2799.370000000]: Recording frame 549
Video saved as output.avi

9. Launch video using vlc media player.

vlc output.avi

NOTE: You can use media player which you prefer.

10. Interrupt the processes. Close the terminals.

You can watch these steps in the video:

Recording a Video

You can read more about video_recorder on wiki_ros.