Linking gopro 3 videos to laps, hard to select correct video

[vmbray]

Did a full work cycle at autocrosss the other day - the gopro integration on android worked perfectly! This was actually a revelation because the gopro getting turned on and off spares the battery and now one battery will easily last the day. Since fiddling with cameras takes away from the focus of the day this is a major step forward. Here's a video if you're in the mood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfSJ0g8U3g

It would be really helpful for gopro 3 users if the video list showed the filename, especially when entered from lap list. This is sort of troubleshooting and sort of feature request but seems more like troubleshooting I guess?

When linking videos, I went to lap list, touched the placeholder for the master video, and used the video+ button at the very top. This brings up the video list and you see duration, size, date etc. The issue I had was that the videos are not in order of filename and you don't see the filename. Due to the gopro not reporting the time of day correctly the user really needs the filename to be able to easily pick the right video (I made sure the gopro memory was clear so I had just the five videos).

This results in having to back out of lap list, and go to the video list and bringing up the details of each video to see the filename, making a note of the duration or filesize, and then going back to lap list. I think this would be solved if the filename was in the video list summary - the user could pick the video based on the sequential order compared to the lap list and go on to overlay the video.

Thanks Harry!

[Harry]

Thanks for the feedback. The problem is indeed the missing timestamp. It is delivered by HERO4 cams and allows to select the correct video automatically (using a pretty complicit time synchronization and some heuristics on video delays etc). For the HERO3, the timestamp is not reported. I have filed that request to GoPro already. For all HEROs, information on the filename of the last or current recording is not available at all. So I understand the request, but LapTimer doesn't know the name either (and need to go the timestamp path).

- Harry

[vmbray]

Okay I think I understand and it's probably futile to hope they will fix that. All I'm suggesting is to show the filename in the video list, or at least sort by the filename so that we can simply link the video.

Maybe add an option to set the video list to sort by filename? There are an awful lot of hero3 cams out there and mine is working fine