I would prefer having all the data embedded in the file itself. In that case I can open the media on any device including mobile devices (Android) and read the metadata e.g. location.
Also, as of today, digiKam cannot read Media Creation Date from mp4 / mov files and uses File Creation Date instead. So now the database is all messed up.
It has been this way for years and I don't believe anything is going to change at exiv2. Still images and video formats are just too different which is why Bento4, Atomic Parsley, Media Info and another projects were born.
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Date: 2017-02-27 11:55 PM (GMT-07:00)
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Subject: Re: Reading / writing MP4 metadata
On mardi 28 février 2017 05:44:23 CET Andrey Goreev wrote:
> Hello digiKam developers,
>
> I was wondering if this tool can be integrated in digiKam:
> https://www.bento4.com/
>
> Looks like it can extract and insert all sorts of metadata including GPS
> location to/from mp4 files.
>
> See the last post in this thread:
> http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=7826.0
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
> AG
Looking a bit at this (as exiftool is not really relevant for Digikam) I found this: http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/813 (about 5 years old). Looks like video metadata is even more of a mess than the photo metadata ('makernote'...).
And that project only used video directly from camera's (so no transcoding to other formats/containers): http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/1189.
Also, do you really want to write into (possibly unique) video files (eq. to photo RAW images), or could a sidecar XMP do the trick? I guess that comes down to asking how often you use those metadata *outside* of digikam.
Remco
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