We are happy to announce that the Desktop Uploader and mapillary_tools now have native support for uploading video files in GoPro and CAMM formats enabling denser capture and easier workflows.
Video capture allows for a much higher framerate than timelapse images and is now the recommended method of capture when you’re using moving vehicles like a car or bicycle. Video also creates more overlap between frames which enables Structure from Motion to generate better 3D reconstructions of the environment which is important to accurately estimate the location of objects. Mapillary can now process video files natively and sample them automatically for both regular and time lapse videos (for example to show one frame every 3 meters).
We would love to hear your thoughts!
Boris
Product Manager, Mapillary
With from Zurich, Switzerland
… the GoPro Fusion was particularly power hungry in video mode. It’s not so much of a problem for the MAX. Power consumption for a video recording is slightly greater than compared to timelapse mode due to the extra processing power required by the camera.
A GoPro MAX battery will last for around 2 hours for continuous recording in good conditions (not too cold), versus about 2.5 hours in timelapse mode.
I gave it a try with my GoPro 11. Sadly the uploader won’t upload the first 8 minutes of a 20 min video. I extracted the gpx file with exiftools, and it seems totally fine. Do you have any idea what could be the problem?
Strange - are you receiving an error of some kind? (what exactly do you mean by “won’t upload the first 8 mins”?). Could you share a link to the file for us to take a look? (If you don’t have access to a file sharing service, PM your email and I’ll send you a onedrive folder you can upload to).
The uploaded sequence will look same as the preview in DU.
It looks like the first 8 minutes were indeed lost, and it’s likely to be GPS anomaly at around 8th minute. Could you extract metadata with ExifTool by running
Absolutely - both image and video capture have their place. Video is particularly good when you are moving too fast for the camera to take frequent photos (e.g. in a car)
Google has a public tracker for the Street View API and I think if you were to report this there it would redirected to the right engineers. I think it’s best coming from you as the one who discovered the issue as well as if they have follow-up questions (though feel free to reference Mapillary).
Okay 3 o’clock in the morning I give up after a very very long search. Does anyone have a product link to CAMM dashcams? I have tried everything: google amazon AliExpress forums ask friends ask Twitter but now im running out of idears. It seems to be untraceable. As if the brand had never existed…
Hi @hiwi234 - sorry for the confusion, CAMM is a metadata standard for video (kind of like exif is for photos). It’s supported largely by higher-end 360 cameras like Ricoh Theta X or Insta360 Pro2. No dashcams support it yet as far as I know, however there are more manual workflows currently for various dashcams to extract images from video. We’ll look to make this process simpler in the future as well for dashcams.
Just got my new gopro was looking here to remind myself of what format to use for uploads. IIRC in the past there was a script or three to run, correct? Did that work on MP4s? Just curious.
Anyway, I’m literally going to head out for a lunch walk and get some mapping to try uploading tonight. Cheers.
@allen and @tastrax with this new native video support you no longer need to run any scripts, you can just select the GoPro video file in the desktop uploader and upload it directly.
We recommend using video mode if you are driving, video time-lapse if you are biking, and photo time lapse if you are walking. Take a look a the updated recommendations at https://help.mapillary.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012674619
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