video tagging

[Gilles Caulier]

In fact, to be clear, all digiKam video management is already implemented
as photo since a while.

digiKam is able to write in video file since 4.12.0, but... as metadata low
level management is fully delegate to Exiv2, well at least 0.25 with right
compilation option to support video files must be enabled.
Warning, they are bugs in Exiv2 which will be fixed in 0.26.

I ask to Exiv2 team to release more frequently the library but without
success. All is always postboned.

So i recommend to use XMP side car for read only files (this include video
files in this case). In all case the video metadata in database will be
store without any problem. We don't use Exiv2 to play with database.

Gilles Caulier

2016-10-22 17:52 GMT+02:00 Henrique Santos Fernandes <sf.rique at gmail.com>:

> Gilles,
>
> So latest digikam is able to writers the tags to video files or not? Sorry
> I could not understand!
>
> I'm migrating machines and in afraid of losing all videos metadata =/
>
> Thanks
>
> Em Sex, 21 de out de 2016 06:22, jdd <jdd at dodin.org> escreveu:
>
>> Le 21/10/2016 à 09:29, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>> > Yes, it possible, and it's the way that video are handle by digiKam
>> > until now.
>> >
>> > The problematic is not in digiKam UI or database, but in Exiv2 which
>> > start to manage better and better video metadata take a while to be
>> > stabilized. 0.25 still have some problems, but next 0.26 will be really
>> > better, but take a while to go out...
>>
>> ok, thanks :-))
>>
>> jdd
>>
>>
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