<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>What tool is creating xmp sidecar files for the video files at the moment? Exiv2 ?</div><div><br></div><div>But anyways, there has to be something else in the FOSS world that can handle the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Video format is just too different from the image format so it is tough to find a tool that can handle both very well. Exiftool came pretty close to that but it still lacks of ability to write many of tags.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2017-03-11 6:06 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Exiv2 bug reports </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">I currently rebuild all digiKam bundle with Exiv2 video metadata support disabled.<div><br></div><div>At least all crashes inside Exiv2 about video file will disappear.</div><div><br></div><div>Another question is about the future of Exiv2. Look well in this message :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1280#note-6">http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1280#note-6</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Robin Mills will left the project in December. Following the other message in Exiv2 bugzilla :</div><div><br></div><div>1/ Exiv2 don't care about digiKam.</div><div>2/ Exiv2 drop all UPSTREAM reports from digiKam.</div><div>3/ Exiv2 will not spare more time to finalize video support.<br></div><div>4/ Exiv2 think about to drop video implementation from the library.</div><div>5/ Exiv2 future goals do not follow the digiKam requirements.</div><div><br></div><div>What's the next stage ?</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-11 12:46 GMT+01:00 jdd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org" target="_blank">jdd@dodin.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Le 11/03/2017 à 12:24, Gilles Caulier a écrit :<br>
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Last point : Robin is retired. He have certainly more free time<br>
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don't think so :-(. I'm also retired and never had so much work for family ("dad, now that you are retired, can you do that for me..."<br>
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I I'm tiring faster :-(<br>
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me has a man who make a mess. This point of view is just inacceptable.<br>
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of course, I know your involvement and greatly appreciate it :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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