[digiKam-users] Migrating from Windows, can Digikam read embedded video tags?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Yes, the video tags will be readable under Windows. In background it's
ffmpeg C API used to parse video file metadata.

In the future, we will use exifTool instead. It will be more powerful.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 15 janv. 2022 à 22:23, Will Rose <will.rose at outlook.com> a écrit :

> I've been a long time user of Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Photo
> Gallery because it was the easiest program to use to embed tags inside
> image and video files.
>
> I followed the Digikam Windows compatibility guide and though it works
> great for photos, I don't see much for videos. I have a lot of old WMV,
> MPG, and MOV files that have been tagged using Photo Gallery. The tags show
> up in the interface as "Descriptive Tags", and also show up in Windows
> Explorer as "Tags" if I check the file properties, but nothing shows up in
> Digikam. If I try to add tags to those files with Digikam, they write to
> external XMP files. Is there a way to get Digikam to write or at least read
> those Windows-embedded video tags? If I can at least get it to read, I can
> search for those old tags with Digikam if I'm looking for something
> specific that I've tagged in the past 15 years. Going forward, writing is
> less important, though ideally I would also like to write to these files.
>
> Thanks.
>
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