# Video Support Arrives to Mapillary **URL:** \ **Category:** Contributing and equipment\ **Created:** [January 26, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703 "2023-01-26T12:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/1 "2023-01-26T12:24:55Z")
Hi folks, We have a new blog post out today. Please take a look: **[Video Support Arrives to Mapillary](https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2023/01/26/video-support.html).** > We are happy to announce that the [Desktop Uploader](https://www.mapillary.com/desktop-uploader) and [mapillary\_tools](https://github.com/mapillary/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](https://opensfm.org/) 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 ---
**Author:** ![Amiga4000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/amiga4000/32/68224_2.png) [@Amiga4000](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Amiga4000)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/2 "2023-01-27T06:49:04Z")
Ohh, processing video instead of pictures for SfM is a progress. Also it gets around the loss of information while deoding images from video., Great ---
**Author:** ![Magnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Magnet](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Magnet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/3 "2023-01-27T07:31:21Z")
For me is the bigger update that I’m finally able to update from the microsd card. I will try to use video capturing within the city but outside it would drain my GoPro battery to fast. ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/4 "2023-01-27T08:24:24Z")
Super, give it a try @Magnet. Depending on which GoPro you have the battery life impact for video may not be significant. According to our friends at @trekview ([https://guides.trekview.org/trek-pack/v2/camera-modes](https://guides.trekview.org/trek-pack/v2/camera-modes)) > … 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. ---
**Author:** ![Magnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Magnet](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Magnet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/5 "2023-01-27T12:51:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/6 "2023-01-27T13:07:43Z")
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). cc: @nikola @tao ---
**Author:** ![Magnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Magnet](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Magnet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/7 "2023-01-27T13:41:09Z")
I think I might have been wrong. I’m uploading my video right now and will give an update when it’s finished. My statement of it losing the first 8 minutes is just based on the uploader preview. ![preview](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/mapillary/original/3X/6/c/6c4fc68346070c49353fc49e6f6aa8b465a3013e.png) ![real_map](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/mapillary/original/3X/3/e/3ef2b1b4646ae4fe2cf236d2db2cd40a7e350c4c.png) ---
**Author:** ![tao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@tao](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/tao)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/8 "2023-01-27T21:27:45Z")
> [@Magnet](#): > > I think I might have been wrong. > I’m uploading my video right now and will give an update when it’s finished. > > My statement of it losing the first 8 minutes is just based on the uploader preview. 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 ```auto exiftool -b -ee3 -X GOPRO11.MP4 ``` and share the output with us? ---
**Author:** ![Magnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Magnet](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Magnet)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/9 "2023-01-28T08:23:24Z")
Sure [GX019036.txt - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LDI-H99RavOWhq9Ct4-jEqsM-KvuUzga/view?usp=share_link) ---
**Author:** ![tao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@tao](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/tao)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/10 "2023-01-30T18:42:04Z")
Thanks @Magnet this will be super helpful. Will update here this week. ---
**Author:** ![4004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/bbce88/32.png) [@4004](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/4004)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/11 "2023-01-31T16:20:44Z")
Good news, given how many people seem to be using video capture as the primary method. Not for me though, I prefer storage management with photos, as well as no image fidelity and device/battery performance loss to video decoding. ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/12 "2023-02-01T13:49:05Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/14 "2023-02-02T11:19:20Z")
Interesting, thanks for sharing that @GITNE! 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). You can file the issue at [https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=316970&template=1019235](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=316970&template=1019235) ---
**Author:** ![hiwi234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hiwi234](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/hiwi234)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/16 "2023-02-06T13:50:04Z")
Next pls support AZDOME and 70mai cams 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hiwi234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hiwi234](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/hiwi234)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/17 "2023-02-07T02:13:22Z")
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… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/18 "2023-02-07T08:39:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/allen/32/137_2.png) [@allen](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/19 "2023-02-08T17:59:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tastrax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/tastrax/32/68356_2.png) [@tastrax](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/tastrax)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/20 "2023-02-08T22:20:54Z")
@allen Personally I use 1/2 second images rather than video as I run two cameras (zero plus 90 degrees) as per [Mapillary and GoPro devices - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvEvcoVkc8l_s01bpzV_9viAo_pqP6i0p9zSKzz4dhk/edit?usp=sharing) I suspect a similar workflow for video if using the desktop uploader. For the command line tools try here [GitHub - mapillary/mapillary\_tools: Command line tools for processing and uploading Mapillary imagery](https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary_tools#usage) ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/boris/32/71767_2.png) [@boris](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/21 "2023-02-09T10:50:19Z")
@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](https://help.mapillary.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012674619) ---
**Author:** ![filipc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/filipc/32/1103_2.png) [@filipc](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/filipc)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703/22 "2023-02-09T17:56:34Z")
I have the impression that the video mode adapts better to changing light conditions. [Next page](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/video-support-arrives-to-mapillary/6703.md?page=2)