Are video tags writed in files or only in digikam database ?

nonobio nonobio at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 13:37:54 GMT 2017


Hi,

Sorry for my late reply, i'm not used with mailing list ;)

Thanks for your reply :)

Bye

Le 22/12/2016 à 19:28, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Video file is problematic until... now.
>
> next release of digiKam as bundle will include Exiv2 0.26 pre release.
> This library is used in low level to play with file metadata. Exiv2 0.25
> introduced more than one year ago was able to read/write with video
> files, but code cannot be used in production yet. A lots of digiKam
> crash was generated.
>
> With next 0.26, more than 200 bugfixes have been introduced. Video
> support is more stable now.
>
> A work around this problem with current digiKam version is to use XMP
> sidecar.
>
> And yes, metadata for video files are always registered in database, in
> all cases.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2016-12-22 18:35 GMT+01:00 nonobio
> <nonobio at gmail.com
> <mailto:nonobio at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi,
>     It seems that tags aren't stored in video files, am i right ? (i
>     checked settings about write in files. It works for photos but not
>     for videos).
>     I'm on windows with Digikam 5.3.0.
>     Thanks
>
>





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