I am trying to use the official GoPro API, using python, in order to capture live stream from my GoPro Hero 3 Camera.
http://goprohero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/API/
I saw that when connected to GoPro wifi, stream is also available through an HTTP url : http://10.5.5.9:8080/live/aamba.m3u8
I opened this video stream through VLC, so I can watch it directly. There is a pretty big latency (~5/6 seconds). The stream is also pretty laggy, it often crashes or lag.
How could I improve this ? Someone already experienced GoPro python API ?
you can use ffmpeg with small -probesize (reduces analyzing duration and lowers the latency) and the lag would be reduced to under 2 seconds.
ffplay -probesize 32 "http://10.5.5.9:8080/live/amba.m3u8"
by the way as far as I know there is no official GoPro API and all these libraries are provided by community (the one you are using is written by Josh Villbrandt.