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

[Gilles Caulier]

2014-06-20 9:58 GMT+02:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
> Nobody?
>
> 2014-06-16 7:50 GMT+02:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
>> 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?

>From an album, select all item and go to Caption and Tags right
sidebar. On the bottom there is a drop down menu with option to
re-read metadata

>> I selected the directory in the "Process items from" section of the
>> maintenance window.
>> But what do I have to set for tags?

nothing. It's to process items from virtual albums.

>> 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.
>>

Perhaps it's already reported to bugzilla. not sure...

Gilles Caulier

>> 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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