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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>Done.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/issues/820" target="_parent">https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/issues/820</a><br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><br></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_parent">Gilles Caulier</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" target="_parent">digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-12 18:06 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" target="_parent">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>Is there a chance to have that option released in future? I think it is a must have option since digikam is DAM tool and all cameras are capable of recording videos nowadays.<br></div><br>Per this webpage: <a href="http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/Supported_video_formats" target="_parent">http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/<wbr>exiv2/wiki/Supported_video_<wbr>formats</a> Exiv2 can read but can't write. They also say "Write metadata support for RIFF, Matroska and partial metadata
write support for Quicktime video formats will be included in subsequent
releases."<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes, progress to support video metadata is too slow. I already reported this wish in Exiv2 team, but the state is to delay to 0.27 some improvements in this way.</div><div><br></div><div>At least we need 0.26, which is not yet released since more than one year. This one fix more than 200 bugs, especially to stabilize video reading metadata. </div><div><br></div><div>Note that current Exiv2 0.26-svn is included into digiKam bundles.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div>But there might be another tools out there that are already capable of reading/writing video files' metadata, e.g. exiftool ,ffmpeg, etc.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>exiftool is perl tool. So no way to use it as well in C++.</div><div><br></div><div>ffmpeg is very interesting and as we use QtAV framework which is a Qt5 based interface to ffmpeg, this is the right alternative to, at least provide a better support of video metadata in read mode. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div>I am particularly interested in reading/writing the following tags:<br></div>- Creation date<br></div>- Rating<br></div>- Keywords (tags)<br></div>- People (if possible)<br></div>- Geolocation (exiftool can do that see: <a href="http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=5977.0" target="_parent">http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/<wbr>exiftool/forum/index.php?<wbr>topic=5977.0</a> )<br><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Right now digikam seems to be unable reading/writing metadata from/to video files.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>if you use digiKam based on Exiv2 0.25, yes. Bundle can be a better way to start, it's not perfect, but better...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Please let the group know your thoughts.<br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, contacting QtAV team to introduce a metadata interface for video file is the way to go. QtAV is hosted in GitHub. Please report this wish to QtAV bug tracking. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div></div></div>
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