Digikam won't read Video Sidecars?

[David Golden]

Tried both the 5.7 appimage and the pre-release 5.8.0-01 appimage.  Digikam
continues to ignore any existing video.mp4.xmp file instead of reading the
metadata; changing information within Digikam destroys the existing info.

Expected behaviour would be for Digikam to read the metadata from the xmp
file and import it just as it would for an image file

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would try it on the latest pre-release 5.8.0 appimage first. There were
> many bugs fixed since 5.5.0
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- 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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