Possible to write XMP sidecar for .AVI files only?

[Info Munky]

I'm experimenting with Digikam tags (keywords) on the video files in my
collection, and can see that tags are written to the IPTC container for
.MOV files, but where I have some older .AVIs, as far as I can see the
tags are only in the Digikam database, and not written to the file in
any way.

Have read a bit about XMP sidecars, and was wondering whether its
possible to generate (automatically) XMP sidecar for a specific MIME
type only (ie .AVI) as I don't want to globally generate XMP for JPG,
RAW, MOV etc.

Is this possible, or is there any alternative approach (apart from MIME
type conversion)?

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Look in Setup dialog, Metadata tab. All options to manage XMP sidecar are there.

Sidecar can be used for read only file. This include video.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 15:13 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <[hidden email]>:

I'm experimenting with Digikam tags (keywords) on the video files in my collection, and can see that tags are written to the IPTC container for .MOV files, but where I have some older .AVIs, as far as I can see the tags are only in the Digikam database, and not written to the file in any way.

Have read a bit about XMP sidecars, and was wondering whether its possible to generate (automatically) XMP sidecar for a specific MIME type only (ie .AVI) as I don't want to globally generate XMP for JPG, RAW, MOV etc.

Is this possible, or is there any alternative approach (apart from MIME type conversion)?

[Info Munky]

Thank you Gilles.

But I think those options are global, and as such do not allow me to use sidecar ONLY for .AVI?

On 17/01/17 15:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:

Look in Setup dialog, Metadata tab. All options to manage XMP sidecar are there.

Sidecar can be used for read only file. This include video.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 15:13 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <[hidden email]>:

I'm experimenting with Digikam tags (keywords) on the video files in my collection, and can see that tags are written to the IPTC container for .MOV files, but where I have some older .AVIs, as far as I can see the tags are only in the Digikam database, and not written to the file in any way.

Have read a bit about XMP sidecars, and was wondering whether its possible to generate (automatically) XMP sidecar for a specific MIME type only (ie .AVI) as I don't want to globally generate XMP for JPG, RAW, MOV etc.

Is this possible, or is there any alternative approach (apart from MIME type conversion)?

[Gilles Caulier-4]

No, there not yet some tune to customize sidecar by type mime. There are some entries in bugzilla to improve this...

Gilles Caulier 

2017-01-17 16:45 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <[hidden email]>:

Thank you Gilles.

But I think those options are global, and as such do not allow me to use sidecar ONLY for .AVI?

On 17/01/17 15:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:

Look in Setup dialog, Metadata tab. All options to manage XMP sidecar are there.

Sidecar can be used for read only file. This include video.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 15:13 GMT+01:00 Info Munky <[hidden email]>:

I'm experimenting with Digikam tags (keywords) on the video files in my collection, and can see that tags are written to the IPTC container for .MOV files, but where I have some older .AVIs, as far as I can see the tags are only in the Digikam database, and not written to the file in any way.

Have read a bit about XMP sidecars, and was wondering whether its possible to generate (automatically) XMP sidecar for a specific MIME type only (ie .AVI) as I don't want to globally generate XMP for JPG, RAW, MOV etc.

Is this possible, or is there any alternative approach (apart from MIME type conversion)?