[digiKam-users] Binary comments

[Martynas Brijunas]

Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
across this behaviour?

[woenx]

Yes, it happened to me too:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422240

El 22/6/20 a les 11:33, Martynas Brijunas ha escrit:
> Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
> all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
> across this behaviour?

[Martynas Brijunas]

the behaviour persists in the 7.0.0 official release as well. This
affects photos coming from various cameras, including Samsung
smartphones. Are there any configuration options to work around this
behaviour (not sure if this is a feature or a bug)? Thank you.

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 15:38, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Yes, it happened to me too:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422240
>
> El 22/6/20 a les 11:33, Martynas Brijunas ha escrit:
> > Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
> > all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
> > across this behaviour?

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

If this problem still exists, please share files on bugzilla entry to
investigate, and comment.

I'm 99% sure that the problem comes from the Exiv2 shared library
which deals with low level metadata contents.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 11:37, Martynas Brijunas <[hidden email]> a écrit :

>
> the behaviour persists in the 7.0.0 official release as well. This
> affects photos coming from various cameras, including Samsung
> smartphones. Are there any configuration options to work around this
> behaviour (not sure if this is a feature or a bug)? Thank you.
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 15:38, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it happened to me too:
> >
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422240
> >
> > El 22/6/20 a les 11:33, Martynas Brijunas ha escrit:
> > > Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
> > > all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
> > > across this behaviour?

[Martin J. Evans]

On 12/08/2020 10:48, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If this problem still exists, please share files on bugzilla entry to
> investigate, and comment.
>
> I'm 99% sure that the problem comes from the Exiv2 shared library
> which deals with low level metadata contents.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier

I don't have access to the bugzilla to comment and the bugzilla seems
fixed anyway.

I have version as shown attached on windows 10.

I also see binary comment since upgrade to 7.0.0 - see attached shot.

I can email some jpegs if it helps.

Martin

--

Martin J. Evans
Wetherby, UK

>
> Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 11:37, Martynas Brijunas <[hidden email]> a écrit :
>> the behaviour persists in the 7.0.0 official release as well. This
>> affects photos coming from various cameras, including Samsung
>> smartphones. Are there any configuration options to work around this
>> behaviour (not sure if this is a feature or a bug)? Thank you.
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 15:38, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Yes, it happened to me too:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422240
>>>
>>> El 22/6/20 a les 11:33, Martynas Brijunas ha escrit:
>>>> Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
>>>> all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
>>>> across this behaviour?

[Martynas Brijunas]

Hi Gilles,

thank you for looking into this. The file is too big for bugzilla.
Here is a public link to the photo:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvJkQjHuwG2jh_IBVnDgwn7pmSAUyQ?e=gJtwyY

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 10:49, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> If this problem still exists, please share files on bugzilla entry to
> investigate, and comment.
>
> I'm 99% sure that the problem comes from the Exiv2 shared library
> which deals with low level metadata contents.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 11:37, Martynas Brijunas <[hidden email]> a écrit :
> >
> > the behaviour persists in the 7.0.0 official release as well. This
> > affects photos coming from various cameras, including Samsung
> > smartphones. Are there any configuration options to work around this
> > behaviour (not sure if this is a feature or a bug)? Thank you.
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 15:38, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, it happened to me too:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422240
> > >
> > > El 22/6/20 a les 11:33, Martynas Brijunas ha escrit:
> > > > Hi, I am trialing digiKam 7.0.0-rc. Strangely, in the Thumbnail view,
> > > > all my photos have "binary comment" displayed. Has anyone else come
> > > > across this behaviour?

[Maik Qualmann]

I cannot reproduce the "binary comment" with my Linux developer version, but with the Windows version. Maybe my Linux Exiv2 is a version behind the Windows version. But you can see from the metadata that Exiv2 has posted here, that this string comes from Exiv2:

https://www.exiv2.org/sample.html

We will investigate the problem further.

Maik