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+ <h1>Offloading GoPro Video 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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+ <code>sh wget --recursive --accept "*.MP4" http://10.5.5.9:8080/ </code>
+ </p>
+
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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.
+ </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.
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