This screen real-estate hijacking has to be stopped of course. It turns out this icon is backed by the "StereoModeStatus" application. Cleverly named in a strange way by GoPro, so normal users would not associate it to the CodecStatus menu item.
There already is a nice article about the fact that this menu item is bad. And a step-by-step procedure to get rid of the icon. The suggested way could be improved tough.
Knowing that the menu bar icons are always backed with a running application, and knowing that this application must be started during the system startup (or user login), I went out to find the startup applications. There are a few places where applications can be configured to start automatically.
First one to look is in the System Preferences under Users & Groups. Next to the current user, you'll find a tab Login Items. No sign of GoPro here.
Next place is /Library/LaunchAgents/ to go there, open Finder press CMD+Shift+g, type the path and press enter.
There you'll find com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist, it contains the configuration that will start the StereoModeStatus with every system boot.
Simply delete this file (back it up if you want to be careful), and you will not see the CodecStatus menu icon after rebooting.
To get rid of the icon without rebooting, just select Quit Codecstatus from the menu.
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