Digging into video files for geolocations
So far I’ve found geolocations in XML metadata that my actioncam stores on disk as seperate .XML files and I’ve found them in JPG files. When I showed the cool maps I made to my father, he asked if I could create maps from his holiday videos. So that he can show cool maps in his video compilations.
Where do locations get stored in video files?
My father has a Sony PJ650VE video camera that makes videos in AVCHD format. Even the camera itself can show you a map of a video location. So I knew it should store geolocations somewhere. But looking on disk I saw no handy metadata files for me to read. So where did the locations go?
I learned that video formats like MP4, Quicktime (.mov) and AVCHD have EXIF metadata stored in them, just like JPG files. Luckily I had all the videos my father had made of our trip to the east coast of the USA in 2013. So I had lots of examples of AVCHD files to work with.