Where can I find the highest quality WRC onboards from recent years?

[wololord]

Hello,

I'm about to start work on a university project which will use machine learning and object detection to track the road and spectators from WRC onboard footage. The end goal is to track vicinity / elevation / position of spectators against the road in order to gauge if there are any dangerous spectator positions on a stage.

I'm searching for the highest quality onboard footage available from all rallies from the past ~ 5 years, and I'm not sure about which source would be the best. I've heard some complain about the broadcast quality on WRC+, so I'm not sure what their archived footage would be like. Red bull TV, YouTube are the other sources I'm aware of at the moment.

If anyone has any further suggestions I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

[NOT]

WRC+ onboard footage are top quality, and they have a huge archive, but you cannot download them.

[jaani8]

I think I can help, please DM.

[wyler]

Hello,

I'm about to start work on a university project which will use machine learning and object detection to track the road and spectators from WRC onboard footage. The end goal is to track vicinity / elevation / position of spectators against the road in order to gauge if there are any dangerous spectator positions on a stage.

I'm searching for the highest quality onboard footage available from all rallies from the past ~ 5 years, and I'm not sure about which source would be the best. I've heard some complain about the broadcast quality on WRC+, so I'm not sure what their archived footage would be like. Red bull TV, YouTube are the other sources I'm aware of at the moment.

If anyone has any further suggestions I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

try emailing wrc+ with the project description and with a letter from university, they should be interested!

[becher]

WRC+ onboard footage are top quality, and they have a huge archive, but you cannot download them.

Well one can screen record them.

[NOT]

Well one can screen record them.

yes if you have a 100 tb of hd space you can have 10 onboards in there....

[Myrvold]

yes if you have a 100 tb of hd space you can have 10 onboards in there....

Learn to compress and it will be fine.

[NOT]

Learn to compress and it will be fine.

then it will not be HD

[flat_right]

then it will not be HD

compression doesn't define if it is HD or not. Raw video or h265, both are in HD (if filmed so) but latter limits color depth, averages (sub samples) color, and throws away information to reduce the space it takes up.

As said here, use some screen record (kazam in linux for example can record in mp4 (h264)) or there are programs available which can be used to download all live onboard files from wrc site.

[J4MIE]

I would imagine for a University it would need to be a legit source.