video meta data

Hello :-)

I, of course, use Digikam for tagging photos. It's nearly the only use I
have of DigiKam, if you don't see showphoto as the same software,
because of course I do most of my editing with showfoto.

I do *not* manage videos with digiKam. The video workflow have little to
do with the photo one.

That said, I would like to have some software to tag videos as I do for
photos.

I know digikam can display some videos (but seemingly not flv), but may
be digiKam is not the right tool for this :-).

do you know some graphical software that manage video meta data?

I edit my videos with kdenlive and I may be able to edit meta data
there, but it's far from friendly for this

thanks
jdd
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[Philip Johnsson]

I have not any answer to your main problem but Digikam can show flv video files if your media backend support it. Usually your backend would be gstreamer (but can be something like vlc, xine etc. check your kde settings for what you use) so if you don't have the codec plugin that support flv then install the packages. Then go in to digikam settings and the MIME types. justg add flv as known movie file extension and hit ok. now digikam should display the flv video in digikam...

Hope that helps some...

/Philip

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:16 PM, jdd <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello :-)

I, of course, use Digikam for tagging photos. It's nearly the only use I have of DigiKam, if you don't see showphoto as the same software, because of course I do most of my editing with showfoto.

I do *not* manage videos with digiKam. The video workflow have little to do with the photo one.

That said, I would like to have some software to tag videos as I do for photos.

I know digikam can display some videos (but seemingly not flv), but may be digiKam is not the right tool for this :-).

do you know some graphical software that manage video meta data?

I edit my videos with kdenlive and I may be able to edit meta data there, but it's far from friendly for this

thanks
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Le 23/07/2015 18:21, Philip Johnsson a écrit :

> and the MIME types. justg add flv as known movie file extension and hit
> ok. now digikam should display the flv video in digikam...

oh, yes, it laked the flv type mime, thanks

now it plays.


that said, there is always the meta data problem, I *can* write metadata
with digiKam (or Dolphin) but theses meta data don't seems to be written
to the file (may be it's not even possible)

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

digiKam use Exiv2 to write metadata.

Since 0.24, video support have been introduced in read/write as experimental, but very bugous...

Last 0.25 fix some important problem as serious crashes about video data reading. Considerate to use this release in priority with digiKam, especially with video files. This want mean that DB registration about video files will work as for photo.

About Video write support it's not wrapped in an optional compilation option while all problem will be fixed.

All digiKam is already ready to manage video as photo since a while, especially about DB and search tool. Exiv2 is late for that.

In all cases, as for RAW files, i recommend to use XMP sidecar with video files. The metadata management from digiKam will be transparent for video as photo.

Gilles Caulier 

2015-07-23 19:18 GMT+02:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 23/07/2015 18:21, Philip Johnsson a écrit :

and the MIME types. justg add flv as known movie file extension and hit
ok. now digikam should display the flv video in digikam...

oh, yes, it laked the flv type mime, thanks

now it plays.


that said, there is always the meta data problem, I *can* write metadata with digiKam (or Dolphin) but theses meta data don't seems to be written to the file (may be it's not even possible)

jdd
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Le 24/07/2015 08:06, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

> In all cases, as for RAW files, i recommend to use XMP sidecar with
> video files. The metadata management from digiKam will be transparent
> for video as photo.

oh, yes, of course. Is it possible to do this only for videos?

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[Fabian Frank]

Am 24.07.2015 um 08:31 schrieb jdd:
> Le 24/07/2015 08:06, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>
>> In all cases, as for RAW files, i recommend to use XMP sidecar with
>> video files. The metadata management from digiKam will be transparent
>> for video as photo.
>
> oh, yes, of course. Is it possible to do this only for videos?

This is a good question - or a good feature request :-)
Was thinking about this some times already.

Best.
Fabian.

>
> thanks
> jdd
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Yes and no. XMP sidecar can be written for all files in Read Only mode. This include RAW and Video.

Look in Setup/Metadata config panel for details.

We have a project this year, under development by a student working on GSoC 2015 to improve tunes in this metadata control panel. We will be able to set finely all settings about data to read write everywhere.

Gilles Caulier

2015-07-24 9:16 GMT+02:00 Fabian Frank <[hidden email]>:

Am 24.07.2015 um 08:31 schrieb jdd:

Le 24/07/2015 08:06, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

In all cases, as for RAW files, i recommend to use XMP sidecar with
video files. The metadata management from digiKam will be transparent
for video as photo.

oh, yes, of course. Is it possible to do this only for videos?

This is a good question - or a good feature request :-)
Was thinking about this some times already.

Best.
Fabian.

thanks
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Le 24/07/2015 09:51, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Yes and no. XMP sidecar can be written for all files in Read Only mode.
> This include RAW and Video.
>
> Look in Setup/Metadata config panel for details.

pretty nice, didn't get this setup before :-)

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