<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>See the online doc :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#behavior-settings">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#behavior-settings</a></div><div><br></div><div>Exiftool is only used to write/read metadata from/to files. Internally the data is still hosted in the Exiv2 containers. Exiftool is able to handle these containers as well.</div><div><br></div><div>As ExifTool are Perl scripts, it's slower than Exiv2 which is C++ compiled, but the abstract layer to deal with file format is so far more advanced than Exiv2.</div><div><br></div><div>Playing with RAW and Video files for example with Exiv2 is poor quality, where ExifTool rocks. This is why this kind of option exists in digiKam...</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div><div>Gilles <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 25 mars 2025 à 08:42, Gmail - nonolemono <<a href="mailto:nonolemono@gmail.com">nonolemono@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Hello,<br>
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using Digikam 8.6.0 I would like to write metadata to raw files (CR2
in my case), but keep using exiv2 for others as it is faster an
works well.<br>
I'm not sure about the behavior of the settings: "Delegate to
ExifTool backend all operations"<br>
This make me think than exiv2 will not be used at all in that case,
but then if you click "If possible write metadata to RAW files" the
popup indicates that Exiftool will <b>only </b>be used for RAW
files.<br>
<br>
Could you clarify the behavior ?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
-- <br>
Bruno Léon<br>
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