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+<?php
+$title = "Offloading GoPro Footage the Easy Way!";
+if (isset($early) && $early) {
+	return;
+}
+include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/head.php');
+?>
+
+<p>
+	Transferring files off of most cameras to a Linux computer isn't all
+	that difficult. The exception is my GoPro Hero 4 Black. For 4th of July
+	week I took a bunch of video with the GoPro, approximately 20 MP4 files,
+	about 3GB each. The annoying thing about the GoPro's USB interface is
+	you need additional software to download everything through the cable.
+	The camera doesn't just show up as a USB filesystem that you can mount.
+	The GoPro does have a micro-SD card but I was away from home and didn't
+	have any dongles or adapters. Both of these solutions also mean taking
+	the camera out of its waterproof case and off of its mount. So here's
+	what I did.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+	GoPro cameras, after the Hero 3, can open up an ad-hoc wireless network
+	that lets you browse the GoPro's onboard files through an HTTP server.
+	This means you can open your browser and scroll through the files on the
+	camera at an intranet address, <code>10.5.5.9</code>, and download them
+	one by one by clicking every link on every page. If you have a lot of
+	footage on there it kinda sucks. So, I opened up the manual for
+	<code>wget</code>. I'm sure you could get really fancy with some of the
+	options but the only thing I cared about was downloading every single
+	MP4 video off of the camera, automatically. I did not want to download
+	any of the small video formats or actual HTML files. Here's what I used:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+        <code>
+sh wget --recursive --accept "*.MP4" http://10.5.5.9:8080/
+		</code>
+      </pre>
+
+<p>
+	This tells <code>wget</code> to download all of the files at the GoPro's
+	address recursively and skips any that don't have the MP4 extension. Now
+	I've got a directory tree with all of my videos in it. And the best part
+	is I didn't have to install the dinky GoPro app on my laptop. Hopefully
+	this helps if you're looking for an easy way to migrate lots of footage
+	without manually clicking through the web interface or installing
+	additional software. The only downside is if you're moving a whole lot
+	of footage, it's not nearly as quick as just moving files off the SD
+	card. So I'd shoot for using the adapter to read off the card first and
+	only use this if that's not an option, such as when the camera is
+	mounted and you don't want to move it.
+</p>
+
+<p>Some things I would like to change/add:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>
+		Download all image files as well; should be easy, just another
+		<code>--accept</code>
+	</li>
+	<li>Initiate parallel downloads</li>
+	<li>
+		Clean up the directory afterwards so I just have one level of depth
+	</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+	I could probably write a quick and dirty shell script to do all of this
+	for me but I use the camera so infrequently that it's probably not even
+	worth it.
+</p>