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

[Simon Cropper]

On 01/12/15 22:33, Andreas Mair wrote:
> 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.

Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.13.3
digiKam: 4.14.0

exiv2 0.25 001900 (64 bit build)

libkexiv2: 2.4
>
> 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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