PLUGINS FOR RECORDING VIDEO FROM AMBF CAMERAS

This repo has two plugins, an object plugin, and a simulator plugin that use FFMPEG to copy the viewport contents to an .MP4. The object plugin is attached to a camera in the ADF/camera.yaml file and the simulator plugin can launched directly with command line arguments. The MP4 file is saved in the directory from where ambf_simulator is launched from.

Compile and Build

cd <path to this directory/>
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

The make command will produce two library (.so) file, one is an object plugin and the other is a simulator plugin.

Run

a. Run the Object Plugin

Make sure ambf_simulator is aliased, or head to the directory where ambf_simulator is located. On Linux, this is ambf/bin/lin-x86_64/. Replace the <path to this directory> in the commands below with the absolute or relative location of this directory.

ambf_simulator -a <path to this directory>/ADF/camera.yaml -l1

b. Run the simulator plugin

ambf_simulator --plugins <path to this directory>/build/libworld_video_recording.so