Date for all Videos is the filesystem file modify date

[Victor Lobo]

Thank you Johannes for the response and work around! I will attempt to
apply the workaround.
I have opened bug# 472520 as requested.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472520

Thanks!
Victor





On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 8:21 PM Johannes Zarl-Zierl <johannes at zarl-zierl.at>
wrote:

> [Sending again because I noticed you are not on this list]
> Hi Victor,
>
> Sorry for the late response - my internet connection during the past week
> was
> somewhat spotty.
>
> Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2023, 00:50:59 CEST schrieb Victor Lobo:
> > I am a new user starting out with KPhotoAlbum. On initial setup,
> > KPhotoAlbum processed my photos and videos and found around 10,000
> videos.
> > I observe that KPhotoAlbum assigned to each of those videos the
> filesystem
> > File Modify date. My expectation was that KPhotoAlbum would assign a date
> > from the video metadata (CreateDate, DateTimeOriginal...) since most of
> my
> > videos have that populated and those dates are correct (as compared to
> file
> > modify date).
> >
> > This behavior can also be observed in the KPhotoAlbum demo. The demo
> > contains a video "movie.avi" with DateTimeOriginal value "2006:10:29
> > 14:33:55" reported by ExifTool. digiKam also displays  "2006:10:29
> > 14:33:55".  If I do one of the below then KPhotoAlbum assigns the file
> > system file modify date (current date) to the video instead of
> "2006:10:29
> > 14:33:55":
> > 1. Select the movie file in the demo and then do (Maintenance --> Read
> Exif
> > Info from Files... --> Check ONLY "Update Image Date" --> OK)
> > OR
> > 2. Copy the movie file from the demo to a new KPhotoAlbum database
>
> I was pretty sure that this used to work. I probably did not notice
> because
> usually the file modification time is the same as the time in the
> metadata. In
> either case, I see this as a bug that needs to be fixed.
>
> > Is assigning the file modify date to all videos the expected
> functionality
> > in KPhotoAlbum? If not, then what should I do to enable KPhotoAlbum to
> > assign dates to videos from the video metadata?
>
> It is expected functionality, but until the issue is fixed you may want to
> adjust your file modification dates as a workaround:
>
> exiftool -FileModifyDate\<DateTimeOriginal movie.avi
>
> or for a whole directory tree:
> find /Images -regex '.*\.\(avi\)\|\(mp4\)' -exec exiftool
> -FileModifyDate\<DateTimeOriginal \{\} \;
>
>
> > I am on Opensuse Tumbleweed; KPhotoAlbum 5.11.0 (same behavior seen in
> > 5.10.0).
>
> Thanks for reporting the issue! If you could post the same information as
> in
> your mail as bug on bugs.kde.org for kphotoalbum, that would really help
> me...
>
> Cheers,
>   Johannes
>
>
>
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