What's the second argument to process_and_upload? A file path, or, a list of files?

[komali2]

I just spent a day recording both timelapse pictures, and, gps tagged video on my gopro hero 11. Both are now in a folder called 100GOPRO.

I installed mapillary tools and per the documentation want to run process_and_upload. The instructions I interpret as meaning, "The process_and_upload command can take two arguments: the first is where the static photos are stored, and the second is where the video files are stored with a wildcard filter for the kind of video file that should be selected."

So,

mapillary_tools process_and_upload 100GOPRO 100GOPRO/*.mp4

I get this error:

2025-02-08 17:58:26,521 - ERROR   - MapillaryFileNotFoundError: Import file or directory not found: 100GOPRO/*.mp4

Should I use bash expansion to instead expand the not-first-argument to be a list of files? I'm within a linux environment (arch).

[bob3bob3]

I remember being confused by this some years ago but don't remember exactly what I did. I think it needed a fully qualified path name and the static image interim/output folder a trailing / There may have even been quoting involved.

eg

mapillary_tools process_and_upload "/home/user/output/100GOPRO/" "/home/user/input/100GOPRO/"

Looking at the current version CLI help though "process_and_upload" seems to be just for static images whereas "video_process_and_upload" has the minimal 2 directory arguments for both input and output. It also seems that the input mp4 folder is the first argument though, not the 2nd.

ie see;
mapillary_tools video_process_and_upload --help
mapillary_tools process_and_upload --help
I have always found this info more reliable than the README.md

Sorry I cant be more specific. I suggest some experimentation on a copy folder and using --dry-run

Cheers

[ptpt]

@komali2 process_and_upload, process or upload accepts a list of paths that you would like to process or upload.

Some systems expand 100GOPRO/*.mp4 to a list of mp4 files under the folder, but some treat it as file named 100GOPRO/*.mp4 literally. Maybe check something like ls 100GOPRO/*.mp4 or dir 100GOPRO/*.mp4 and see if it's expanding correctly?