Video playback with GPS coordinates/track synchronized still remains future? Not quite:

The prototype is already 2 years old i think by now. it all started when i saw people riding mountainbikes with a camera attached to their helmet. my first impression was – who is gonna watch these videos. The stuff i have seen before, the quality was pretty miserable and the footage quite boring due to the missing context.

Being active myself with outdoor sports i thought – ok action video can be thrilling if done right but what if you could combine video with geo coordinates to make a mashup of both?! Back then there did not exists any standard for embedding geo coordinates into video meta data/stream data frame by frame or whatever, … like EXIF for DSLRs.I guess nothing has changed in these regards. I suppose the only available way is to log coordinates in NMEA form while the the video is recording. Very well possible that there may be some recorders that already do that by now – would be nice because then you need only one device instead of having a external GPS logger. But before any of this will be available for action cameras some years will pass.

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