Possible to write XMP sidecar for .AVI files only?

[Gilles Caulier]

No, there not yet some tune to customize sidecar by type mime. There are
some entries in bugzilla to improve this...

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 16:45 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <info.munky at gmx.com>:

> 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>:
>
>> 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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