Insta360 One R (and probably others) GPS Extract Tool

This is a very simple tool based on the works of ExifTool which extracts GPS data from one or more 360 degree video files from an Insta360 One R camera with the GPS remote (and probably others).

For this to work correctly, you must record your videos with the 360-degree module, and use the GPS remote to add the data.

Building

Use .net 6.0. To build a framework-dependent version, run

dotnet publish -c Release Insta360GPXExtract

You will find your executable in Insta360GPXExtract/bin/Release/net6.0/publish.

You can also build standalone EXEs like so:

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true Insta360GPXExtract

This, for example, builds a 64-bit Windows version.

To quickly build all common versions, run build.bat or build.sh scripts. You will then find the framework-dependent version in build/fw and stand-alone runnable versions in the other sub directories of build.

Using

This program is command-line driven. The following options are understood:

• -i - Input path. This can either be a file or a directory. If a directory is given, all files conforming to the naming pattern VID_yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_00_nnn.insv are used.
• -o - Output path. How this is used depends on whether only a single file will be written. If multiple files are written, this is always used as a directory. If the directory does not already exist, it is created. If only a single file is written, and the path points to a directory that already exists, a file with the same name as the input file, with an additional .gpx extension, is created. If nothing exists at this path, it is treated as a file. If another file already exists at this path, it will be overwritten.
• -r - Recurse through the input directories. This will recursively traverse all directories given with -i and use all suitable files which are found. If only files are given with -i, this is ignored.
• -s - Single file. If given and multiple input files are resolved, they are processed in order, sorted by their timestamp. For a correct GPX file, make sure that none of the files overlap.

Example usage:

Let's say you dumped multiple SD cards into the directory D:\Insta360Videos, one subdirectory for each card. Then,

Insta360GPXExtract -i D:\Insta360Videos -o D:\Insta360Videos\track.gpx -r -s

will assemble one track.gpx file from all suitable .insv files found.

To do

• Better approach to find the Insta360 trailer, current one is a bit brute-force
• Support videos shot with 1-inch module