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- <h1>Offloading GoPro Footage the Easy Way!</h1>
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- 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.
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- 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:
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-sh wget --recursive --accept "*.MP4" http://10.5.5.9:8080/
- </code>
- </pre>
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- 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.
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- <p>Some things I would like to change/add:</p>
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- 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>
-
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- 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.
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