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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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89ebe97 --- /dev/null +++ b/unix/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +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. + + + |