[digiKam-users] Digikam-users Digest, Vol 161, Issue 15

Michael Levin mlevin77 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 8 21:02:30 BST 2018 

> Did you try the Tag Manager available in Tag menu.

	yes, but I don’t see how to make a new category and put tags under (inside) of it - how do I do it?

thank you!


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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Rafael Linux)
>   2. Re:  MTS video metadata (Guy Rutenberg)
>   3. Re:  Basic question on Tags (Gilles Caulier)
>   4. Re:  MTS video metadata (jdd at dodin.org)
>   5. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Rafael Linux)
>   6.  Can't find tools for panorama (Guy Rutenberg)
>   7. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Maik Qualmann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 06:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Rafael Linux <rafael.linux.user at gmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> 	digikam" appears twice in htop
> Message-ID: <1538996995319-0.post at n4.nabble.com>
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> Sorry, as I told in other posts, I have not direct access to retrieve info
> when I want to (is the user job machine), so I just now have access and can
> clarify some questions:
> - I launch only ONE time Digikam (at Plasma start). In this case, I killed
> all instances (Digikam and MySQL) and launch it manually again. Result is
> the same: A lot of Digikam and MySQL threads. 
> - Plasma monitor (ksysguard) only shows 1 Digikam task and 1 mysqld
> instance. Is "htop" (from command line) who shows really all those threads.
> Maybe is normal .... but I really don't know.
> - When we got Digikam to respond (after launching manually and wait "X"
> minutes), user *only clicked* "Advanced search" ... and that was the worst
> decision ....  Digikam advanced search window opened but just  "freezed"
> doing who knows, and unfortunately that implies Digikam main window is
> freezed too, so user can't work with application (20 minutes ago now).
> 
> Digikam is working, as you can see in attached image, taking 25% of CPU
> processes resources, but no Digikam windows contents are showed at all.
> 
> I think these issues are related to the growing database. We are reaching
> 398.000 images (we started at +300K) but our database is increased all days
> by 20 to 100 (estimated) new photos (mainly JPG) every work day.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/digikam_-_advanced_search_freezed_Digikam.png> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:49:15 +0300
> From: Guy Rutenberg <guyrutenberg at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> 	power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
> Message-ID:
> 	<CADfV-LEz+1e=-6_yLdbedFa9wyK5o=zLmQwFny56fkCzxXtoGg at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:09:10 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
>> I found a sample video from this camera on the web. In fact, FFmpeg does
>> not
>> find the date in the file. Exiftool displays a date. All other parameters
>> such
>> as video codec, audio codec, etc. are recognized.
>> 
>> 
> It seems ffmpeg fails to extract most of the metadata as well, as it
> doesn't recognize thing like camera model as well.
> I think about a workaround by copying (using ffmpeg) the video to another
> container format which is better supported by ffmpeg/digikam and then
> copying the metadata using exiftool.
> 
> I've tried:
>  ffmpeg -i video.mts -c copy video.mp4
>  exiftool -tagsFromFile video.mts video.mp4
> 
> But still digikam won't read the creation time and other metadata. Any
> other recommended format?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guy
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:00:56 +0200
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> 	power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Basic question on Tags
> Message-ID:
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> Did you try the Tag Manager available in Tag menu.
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le lun. 8 oct. 2018 à 12:21, Michael Levin <mlevin77 at comcast.net> a écrit :
> 
>> Is it possible to re-arrange the Tags hierarchy? I’d like to make a new
>> group of Tags so that its member Tags are not visible unless I expand it,
>> but can’t seem to figure out how to create a new group.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:35:15 +0200
> From: "jdd at dodin.org" <jdd at dodin.org>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
> Message-ID: <92457ab0-a4b8-0350-1f4d-fd929d0caa6f at dodin.org>
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> Le 08/10/2018 à 13:49, Guy Rutenberg a écrit :
> 
>> I've tried:
>>   ffmpeg -i video.mts -c copy video.mp4
> 
> copy do only what is said, copy exactly, same as rename...
> 
> converting to mp4 may dio the job, but I never tested for metadata
> 
> http://dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.UsingHtml5
> 
> jdd
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 08:03:22 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Rafael Linux <rafael.linux.user at gmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> 	digikam" appears twice in htop
> Message-ID: <1539003802729-0.post at n4.nabble.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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> I just discovered what's difference between how HTOP and KSysguard shows
> task. While "htop" shows all threads, Ksysguard only shows all task threads
> if you put mouse pointer over the task name, then it will show how many
> threads have that task (see attached image). So that it's normal, despite I
> was wondering how it was possible.
> 
> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/Digikam_-_ksysguard_processes_tooltips.png> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:24:54 +0300
> From: Guy Rutenberg <guyrutenberg at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> 	power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: [digiKam-users] Can't find tools for panorama
> Message-ID:
> 	<CADfV-LG8vat1oAo_teV1-7KpCHCy-qY_sUqe_RG4FwthbJbGtw at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 6.0beta using the appimage. It seems that digikam fails to find
> the binaries needed to create panoramas or stacked images. Those are
> autooptimiser, cpclean, enblend, enfuse, make, none etc. Oddly enough it
> does find cpfind... All those binaries are installed and available in
> /usr/bin. Trying to click on the "Find" button and point it to the right
> binary doesn't work.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guy
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:33:10 +0200
> From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> 	power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> 	digikam" appears twice in htop
> Message-ID: <9754441.VtgaGaGeGc at linux-tpgn>
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> 
> I now have over 320k images and over 1100 albums in my collection. With the 
> help of this script (https://loteks.de/tausende-zufaellige-bilder-mit-fortlaufenden-namen/) and additional code that automatically creates folders, 
> I have now created 300k random images, 500 folders x 600 images. My computer 
> is an already "older" AMD with 2 cores with 8GB memory, a SSD for the system 
> and an HDD for the images. An actually already longer planned update, I still 
> push in front of me, since he is still enough for me. The local MySQL DB is on 
> the SSD. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with kernel 4.18.9 and Plasma KF5.50. DigiKam is 
> compiled from git/master itself. Of course, the first scan takes a while. Now 
> the times:
> 
> Start until the GUI is visible (last time the album mode was set): 10 seconds.
> 
> New item scan in the status bar: 22 seconds.
> 
> Change the sort order in albums with 600-2000 images: no delay.
> 
> The albums and images can be browsed without delay.
> 
> Search for keywords where the result is around 2000 images: 1 second.
> 
> Now the extreme, the search for images without keywords, here so 300k images.
> The Icon view is able to display this number of images, takes 3 minutes and 
> digiKam use itself 1.3GB memory. Changing the sort order of this view takes 4 
> minutes. Here I will try to optimize further.
> 
> For me an interesting self-test and I think digiKam is also suitable for such 
> a collection.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2018, 15:03:22 CEST schrieb Rafael Linux:
>> I just discovered what's difference between how HTOP and KSysguard shows
>> task. While "htop" shows all threads, Ksysguard only shows all task threads
>> if you put mouse pointer over the task name, then it will show how many
>> threads have that task (see attached image). So that it's normal, despite I
>> was wondering how it was possible.
>> 
>> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/Digikam_-_ksysguard_proce
>> sses_tooltips.png>
>> 
>> 
>> 
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