How to stop Digikam writing to MOV files?

[Maik Qualmann]

Yes, we implemented a fallback to ExifTool, even when ExifTool wasn't active, 
because Exiv2 cannot write certain image types. This issue has now been fixed 
in git/master; when sidecars are enabled for read-only files, there is no 
longer a fallback to ExifTool.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 9. August 2026, 19:10:18 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Thomas:
> Wow! I hope this is not the case. I do not want DK to touch any of my
> files unless I explicitly want that... Please tell me this is a weird
> bug and not intended behavior.
> 
> On 2026-08-09 15.56, meku wrote:
> > I discovered in Digikam 9.1 now writes metadata to MOV files using
> > exiftool, even though the config settings to use exiftool are not
> > selected.
> > 
> > Other video file types such as MP4 still write to sidecar as expected.
> > 
> > I don't want to update video files, and the previous behavior just
> > used sidecars for all videos. Is there a setting to stop Digikam from
> > making updates to MOV using exiftool?
> > 
> > Thanks.