Possible to write XMP sidecar for .AVI files only?

[Info Munky]

Thank you Gilles.

But I think those options are global, and as such do not allow me to use 
sidecar ONLY for .AVI?


On 17/01/17 15:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Look in Setup dialog, Metadata tab. All options to manage XMP sidecar 
> are there.
>
> Sidecar can be used for read only file. This include video.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-01-17 15:13 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <info.munky at gmx.com 
> <mailto:info.munky at gmx.com>>:
>
>     I'm experimenting with Digikam tags (keywords) on the video files
>     in my collection, and can see that tags are written to the IPTC
>     container for .MOV files, but where I have some older .AVIs, as
>     far as I can see the tags are only in the Digikam database, and
>     not written to the file in any way.
>
>     Have read a bit about XMP sidecars, and was wondering whether its
>     possible to generate (automatically) XMP sidecar for a specific
>     MIME type only (ie .AVI) as I don't want to globally generate XMP
>     for JPG, RAW, MOV etc.
>
>     Is this possible, or is there any alternative approach (apart from
>     MIME type conversion)?
>
>
>

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