[digiKam-users] exiv2 corrupted image metadata

[Hans-Peter Huth]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 22:08:50 +0100
Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Le dim. 21 nov. 2021 à 20:55, Hans-Peter Huth
> <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :
> 

See the reply on the Exiv2 bug tracker:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/2001

Does this help?

HP
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:32:13 +0100
> > Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >  
> > > Exiv2 is  a C++ low level library
> > > ExifTool is a Perl CLI tool.
> > >
> > > Implementations are completely different and not dependent.  
> >
> > Yes, shure. But isn't this a hint that the image as such is correct? Or
> > is Exiftool more tolerant against errors?
> >  
> 
> Exiftool is more mature than Exiv2 so code is more robust and can handle
> special conditions in metadata.
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 


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