Date for all Videos is the filesystem file modify date

[Victor Lobo]

Hi,

I am a new user starting out with KPhotoAlbum. On initial setup,
KPhotoAlbum processed my photos and videos and found around 10,000 videos.
I observe that KPhotoAlbum assigned to each of those videos the filesystem
File Modify date. My expectation was that KPhotoAlbum would assign a date
from the video metadata (CreateDate, DateTimeOriginal...) since most of my
videos have that populated and those dates are correct (as compared to file
modify date).

This behavior can also be observed in the KPhotoAlbum demo. The demo
contains a video "movie.avi" with DateTimeOriginal value "2006:10:29
14:33:55" reported by ExifTool. digiKam also displays  "2006:10:29
14:33:55".  If I do one of the below then KPhotoAlbum assigns the file
system file modify date (current date) to the video instead of "2006:10:29
14:33:55":
1. Select the movie file in the demo and then do (Maintenance --> Read Exif
Info from Files... --> Check ONLY "Update Image Date" --> OK)
OR
2. Copy the movie file from the demo to a new KPhotoAlbum database

Is assigning the file modify date to all videos the expected functionality
in KPhotoAlbum? If not, then what should I do to enable KPhotoAlbum to
assign dates to videos from the video metadata?

I am on Opensuse Tumbleweed; KPhotoAlbum 5.11.0 (same behavior seen in
5.10.0).


Thank you,
Victor Lobo
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