Re: Digikam-users Digest, Vol 161, Issue 15

[Michael Levin]

> Did you try the Tag Manager available in Tag menu.

        yes, but I don’t see how to make a new category and put tags under (inside) of it - how do I do it?

thank you!

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>   1. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Rafael Linux)
>   2. Re:  MTS video metadata (Guy Rutenberg)
>   3. Re:  Basic question on Tags (Gilles Caulier)
>   4. Re:  MTS video metadata ([hidden email])
>   5. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Rafael Linux)
>   6.  Can't find tools for panorama (Guy Rutenberg)
>   7. Re:  The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle digikam"
>      appears twice in htop (Maik Qualmann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 06:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Rafael Linux <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> digikam" appears twice in htop
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> Sorry, as I told in other posts, I have not direct access to retrieve info
> when I want to (is the user job machine), so I just now have access and can
> clarify some questions:
> - I launch only ONE time Digikam (at Plasma start). In this case, I killed
> all instances (Digikam and MySQL) and launch it manually again. Result is
> the same: A lot of Digikam and MySQL threads.
> - Plasma monitor (ksysguard) only shows 1 Digikam task and 1 mysqld
> instance. Is "htop" (from command line) who shows really all those threads.
> Maybe is normal .... but I really don't know.
> - When we got Digikam to respond (after launching manually and wait "X"
> minutes), user *only clicked* "Advanced search" ... and that was the worst
> decision ....  Digikam advanced search window opened but just  "freezed"
> doing who knows, and unfortunately that implies Digikam main window is
> freezed too, so user can't work with application (20 minutes ago now).
>
> Digikam is working, as you can see in attached image, taking 25% of CPU
> processes resources, but no Digikam windows contents are showed at all.
>
> I think these issues are related to the growing database. We are reaching
> 398.000 images (we started at +300K) but our database is increased all days
> by 20 to 100 (estimated) new photos (mainly JPG) every work day.
>
> Any suggestion?
> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/digikam_-_advanced_search_freezed_Digikam.png>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:49:15 +0300
> From: Guy Rutenberg <[hidden email]>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
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> Hi,
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> From: Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]>
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>> power of open source <[hidden email]>
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:09:10 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
>> I found a sample video from this camera on the web. In fact, FFmpeg does
>> not
>> find the date in the file. Exiftool displays a date. All other parameters
>> such
>> as video codec, audio codec, etc. are recognized.
>>
>>
> It seems ffmpeg fails to extract most of the metadata as well, as it
> doesn't recognize thing like camera model as well.
> I think about a workaround by copying (using ffmpeg) the video to another
> container format which is better supported by ffmpeg/digikam and then
> copying the metadata using exiftool.
>
> I've tried:
>  ffmpeg -i video.mts -c copy video.mp4
>  exiftool -tagsFromFile video.mts video.mp4
>
> But still digikam won't read the creation time and other metadata. Any
> other recommended format?
>
> Thanks,
> Guy
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:00:56 +0200
> From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
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> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Basic question on Tags
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> Did you try the Tag Manager available in Tag menu.
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> Best
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> Gilles Caulier
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> Le lun. 8 oct. 2018 à 12:21, Michael Levin <[hidden email]> a écrit :
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>> Is it possible to re-arrange the Tags hierarchy? I’d like to make a new
>> group of Tags so that its member Tags are not visible unless I expand it,
>> but can’t seem to figure out how to create a new group.
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> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:35:15 +0200
> From: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] MTS video metadata
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> Le 08/10/2018 à 13:49, Guy Rutenberg a écrit :
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>> I've tried:
>>   ffmpeg -i video.mts -c copy video.mp4
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> copy do only what is said, copy exactly, same as rename...
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> converting to mp4 may dio the job, but I never tested for metadata
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> http://dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.UsingHtml5
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> jdd
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 08:03:22 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Rafael Linux <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> digikam" appears twice in htop
> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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> I just discovered what's difference between how HTOP and KSysguard shows
> task. While "htop" shows all threads, Ksysguard only shows all task threads
> if you put mouse pointer over the task name, then it will show how many
> threads have that task (see attached image). So that it's normal, despite I
> was wondering how it was possible.
>
> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/Digikam_-_ksysguard_processes_tooltips.png>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:24:54 +0300
> From: Guy Rutenberg <[hidden email]>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [digiKam-users] Can't find tools for panorama
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> Hi,
>
> I'm running 6.0beta using the appimage. It seems that digikam fails to find
> the binaries needed to create panoramas or stacked images. Those are
> autooptimiser, cpclean, enblend, enfuse, make, none etc. Oddly enough it
> does find cpfind... All those binaries are installed and available in
> /usr/bin. Trying to click on the "Find" button and point it to the right
> binary doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Guy
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:33:10 +0200
> From: Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] The task "/usr/bin digikam -qwindowtitle
> digikam" appears twice in htop
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> I now have over 320k images and over 1100 albums in my collection. With the
> help of this script (https://loteks.de/tausende-zufaellige-bilder-mit-fortlaufenden-namen/) and additional code that automatically creates folders,
> I have now created 300k random images, 500 folders x 600 images. My computer
> is an already "older" AMD with 2 cores with 8GB memory, a SSD for the system
> and an HDD for the images. An actually already longer planned update, I still
> push in front of me, since he is still enough for me. The local MySQL DB is on
> the SSD. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with kernel 4.18.9 and Plasma KF5.50. DigiKam is
> compiled from git/master itself. Of course, the first scan takes a while. Now
> the times:
>
> Start until the GUI is visible (last time the album mode was set): 10 seconds.
>
> New item scan in the status bar: 22 seconds.
>
> Change the sort order in albums with 600-2000 images: no delay.
>
> The albums and images can be browsed without delay.
>
> Search for keywords where the result is around 2000 images: 1 second.
>
> Now the extreme, the search for images without keywords, here so 300k images.
> The Icon view is able to display this number of images, takes 3 minutes and
> digiKam use itself 1.3GB memory. Changing the sort order of this view takes 4
> minutes. Here I will try to optimize further.
>
> For me an interesting self-test and I think digiKam is also suitable for such
> a collection.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2018, 15:03:22 CEST schrieb Rafael Linux:
>> I just discovered what's difference between how HTOP and KSysguard shows
>> task. While "htop" shows all threads, Ksysguard only shows all task threads
>> if you put mouse pointer over the task name, then it will show how many
>> threads have that task (see attached image). So that it's normal, despite I
>> was wondering how it was possible.
>>
>> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/t376179/Digikam_-_ksysguard_proce
>> sses_tooltips.png>
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