Exiv2 bug reports

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all

Some news about the Video metadata support plan :

1/ I investigated the ExifTool way. The time latency introduced by
QProcess to run Perl script is too much important. It's acceptable for
some image, but for a large collection scan, it's inacceptable. Even
if metadata support is excellent, i will forget Exiftool...

2/ I take a look to MediaInfo. A lib is available de facto under
Linux. Even project management (source code, compilation rules,
compiler support) is not strong from my point of view, the code must
be compilable for all bundle. It sound like this project is maintained
under Windows, and other platform only provided as well. I'm not sure.
The interface is not to much complicated to wrap with digiKam core. So
i will study this way for the future.

3/ No news from Exiv2 since the 0.26 release. Only few bugzilla
entries have been created with some response, but no more. Sound like
Exiv2 switch progressively in frozen mode. I hope that a new
maintainer will be found quickly. We really need to see the video
supported completed, at least for read only request.
NOTE: do not ask me to do this job, in parallel of digiKam...

My plan : as we already do for unsupported RAW file by Exiv2, we use
libraw to get some metadata that library is able to parse. All are
stored in Exiv2 container, so all the rest of digiKam don't need to be
touch.
I want to do the same for MediaInfo, with a Cmake optional compilation rule.

This will provide a minimal support of video metadata, in read only,
until a solution will be found with Exiv2 project.

Important : i need a new entry in digiKam bugzilla to add video
support through MediaInfo. Thanks in advance.

Voilà. Constructive comments are welcome.

Best

Gilles Caulier


2017-04-28 16:24 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
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> 2017-04-28 15:31 GMT+02:00 NeiNei <neinei at gmx.net>:
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>> Hi there,
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>> the long awaited release of Exiv2 v0.26 should be released today according
>> to http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/2830
>> However, I do not know wether or how it will change the situation for
>> DigiKam.
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> Nothing news with Exiv2 0.26, as i already use current code from svn server
> in all bundle (so pre 0.26 release)
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>> As far as I understood Gilles thoroughly checks for alternatives in order
>> to ensure a working, evolving and reliable metadata editor for DigiKam.
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> yes. No code is done yet. I plan to make some demo code soon with Exiftool
> c++ interface, when time permit.
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> Gilles
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