Convert the audio_capture and audio_play nodes into rclcpp components. The benefits this would have, while still maintaining backwards compatibility (non-functional change) are:
Allow for intra-process communication when nodes are running in the same component container - removing the copy overhead between publishers and subscribers in the same container (think capture and play running the same container with less latency - especially important for relatively heavy audio msg)
Allow for the nodes to be loaded/unloaded dynamically. For my current use-case, we want to record audio files for n seconds, instead of using a separate node to capture /audio and save to a wav file, we can utilize the already implemented gstreamer pipeline in this package to run the node for n seconds and save a wav file in this manner.
@knorth55 let me know if this is something you would be interested in - I can make the change, test and submit a PR if so!
Feature Request:
Convert the audio_capture and audio_play nodes into rclcpp components. The benefits this would have, while still maintaining backwards compatibility (non-functional change) are:
@knorth55 let me know if this is something you would be interested in - I can make the change, test and submit a PR if so!