[Digikam-users] Best practice for storing and tagging movies

[Andreas Mair]

Hi Simon,

what digiKam, libkexiv2 and exiv2 versions do you have installed?
I have the strong feeling that you need (at least) a recent exiv2
(v0.25) that supports video files.

Best regards,
Andreas


2015-12-01 11:44 GMT+01:00 Simon Cropper <contact at simonchristophercropper.com>:
> On 01/12/15 21:00, jdd wrote:
>
> Le 01/12/2015 10:47, Simon Cropper a écrit :
>
>
> *** Anyone have any ideas thank you? Not sure others received
> notification a few days back as I have recently changed my email ***
>
> What is the current best practice for managing movies with digikam. I
> could not find anything specific on the online manual.
>
>
> video management is very different from photo management. All what Digikam
> can do is read videos eventually. I don't think he would have to do anything
> else.
>
>
> I don't see how it differs. Author, time taken, tags. I would not expect
> digikam to import any data from the video just save any user created
> metadata to an associated XMP file. Just like what people do when they
> create a JPG of the video and associate the image with that video.
>
>
>
> On my system -- Ubuntu 14.04 64bit with Mate Desktop -- the videos can
> be run ok and each video has a thumbnail. In particular I am interested
> in storage of metadata. I don't want to store metadata in the video file
> but in an associated XMP file.
>
>
> I know of no standard to do so - but would be glad to prove wrong, so it's
> pretty useless
>
>
> What's wrong with just saving the database data (e.g. tags) to the file in
> an image format rather than a video format. I agree that there is currently
> no standard but who cares as long as the data can be exported and imported.
>
>
> (I have seen your first post, but expected also an other answer)
>
>
> Thanks for letting me know, I thought it got lost.
>
>
> jdd
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