Digikam won't read Video Sidecars?

[meku]

I believe this is a bug, I filed a report some time ago:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375570

On 20 September 2017 at 12:23, David Golden <vtdave88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all!  I am trying to move from manually managing my photos (both
> cell and DSLR) via bash scripts, folders, and exiftool, to using Digikam.
> However, one problem I am encountering is getting cell videos properly
> integrated.
>
> Right now, when I dump from my cell to my hard drive, I use a bash script
> to add basic metadata.  For photos it gets added directly to the file, but
> when I started Exiftool recommended not writing to videos, so I save the
> info in a sidecar with the same filename, but adding ".xmp" to the end
> (e.g. video.mp4.xmp).  The tags are:
>
> [XMP]           CreatorCity                     : mycity
> [XMP]           CreatorCountry                  : USA
> [XMP]           CreatorAddress                  : myaddress
> [XMP]           CreatorPostalCode               : 12345
> [XMP]           CreatorRegion                   : mystate
> [XMP]           CreatorWorkEmail                : myemail
> [XMP]           Description                     : brief description
> [XMP]           Title                           : Video.mp4 | 2015-07-03
> 09:55:18 -0400
> [XMP]           Headline                        : folder title
> [XMP]           Source                          : myname
> [XMP]           CopyrightStatus                 : Protected
> [XMP]           ImageFileConstraints            : Maintain Metadata
> [XMP]           Copyright                       : © 2015 by me, all
> rights reserved
> [XMP]           CreateDate                      : 2015:07:03 13:55:18
>
>
> I have Digikam set to read from and write to sidecars.
>
> When I move a new folder into the Pictures directory tree and load
> Digikam, it correctly reads the metadata from the picture.  It does *not*
> read the metadata from the video sidecar.  All the appropriate fields are
> blank within Digikam.  However.  if I edit the copyright info within the
> Information tab, it changes the copyright tag within the XMP, *and* it
> completely wipes out the other info (such as Creator...) within the
> video.mp4.xmp
>
> How can I get Digikam to properly read my video sidecars.  Right now I am
> forced to keep any folder containing videos out of Digikam to avoid
> destroying information.
>
> I'm using Digikam 5.5 under openSUSE Tumbleweed
>
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