[Digikam-users] Wrong aspect ratio for videos / Maintenance usability

[Andreas Mair]

Hello Gilles,

meanwhile Gentoo put exiv2 0.24 into its portage tree and so I
installed it. This also required libkexiv2 to be rebuilt. digiKam now
displays that it's using exiv2 0.24. DigiKam is still v3.5.0.

So I tried a DB update. But I have problems using it:
1) I wanted to reread metadata from a single directory recursive,
where all my videos are located. But how do I do that?
I selected the directory in the "Process items from" section of the
maintenance window.
But what do I have to set for tags?
I tried with a single tag but then digiKam also updated pictures that
are not located in the directory I've set above. That's not what I
want.

2) Video metadata was not refreshed if the files had an XMP sidecar.

3) Video is still displayed using the wrong aspect ratio even if
digiKam now reports the correct aspect ratio of "16:9", width=1024 and
height=756.

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Andreas


2014-05-10 11:22 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 2014-05-10 11:10 GMT+02:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
>> Hello Gilles,
>>
>> thanks for your answer.
>> I'm quite surprised that it's because of exiv2, I never thought of
>> searching in that direction.
>>
>> Seems I have to wait until exiv2 v0.24 hits Gentoo's portage.
>
> Ah, you don't use yet Exiv2 0.24 ? this is why ratio look weird...
> only 0.24 support video files.
>
> Warning : as digikam register item width and height in database to
> compute ratio, you need to force DB to be updated with items metadata.
> There is a Maintenance tool for that. Else, ratio will not change in
> digiKam after a simple Exiv2 update...
>
> Gilles Caulier
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