Digikam won't read Video Sidecars?

[Andrey Goreev]

I would try it on the latest pre-release 5.8.0 appimage first. There were many bugs fixed since 5.5.0 


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-------- Original message --------From: David Golden <vtdave88 at gmail.com> Date: 2017-09-19  8:23 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Digikam won't read Video Sidecars? 
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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