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diff --git a/unix/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md b/unix/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md deleted file mode 100644 index 89ebe97..0000000 --- a/unix/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ ---- -permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}" -title: The Best Way to Transfer GoPro Files with Linux -categories: - - technology -tags: - - gopro - - camera - - video - - download - - linux - - wireless -published_date: "2019-07-04 21:54:49 +0000" -layout: post.liquid -is_draft: false -excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n" ---- - -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. - -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, `10.5.5.9`, 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 `wget`. 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: - -```sh -wget --recursive --accept "*.MP4" http://10.5.5.9:8080/ -``` - -This tells `wget` 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. - -Some things I would like to change/add: - -- Download all image files as well; should be easy, just another `--accept` -- Initiate parallel downloads -- Clean up the directory afterwards so I just have one level of depth - -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. - - - |