[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 351142] New: digikam does not obtain date of origination from exif metadata of video files

[gomi2013 at mailup.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351142

            Bug ID: 351142
           Summary: digikam does not obtain date of origination  from exif
                    metadata of video files
           Product: digikam
           Version: 4.12.0
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: libkexiv2
          Assignee: digikam-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: gomi2013 at mailup.net

For photographs, digikam obtains the date that the photo was taken from the
exif metadata of the image, and then falls back to using the creation date of
the file if exif metadata is unavailable.
Currently it does not do the same for videos, it just uses the file creation
date.
I suggest that it should scan the metadata of videos to obtain the creation
date.
The following exiv2 tags could be looked for:

Xmp.video.DateTimeOriginal
Xmp.video.DateUTC
Xmp.video.ModificationDate
Xmp.video.DateTimeDigitized



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Add a video file to an album
See what date digikam has assigned to it


Actual Results:  
Digikam uses the file creation date as reported by the operating system

Expected Results:  
If there is a creation date recorded in the video file's metadata, digikam
should use that.

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