Version: 2.0.0 (using KDE 4.7.0) OS: Linux In digikam 2.0 it is not possible to add geolocation information to mp4 videos. When trying to save it, a "Failed to open file" error pops up for every file. It worked fine in version 1.x Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to add geolocation info to a mp4 video Actual Results: An error dialog pops up Expected Results: The geolocation metadata is added to the file
Hi, the problem here is that we do not currently support writing metadata into movie files. The coordinates are saved in the database, however. In previous pre-2.0 versions, no metadata was written to movie files, either, but there was no warning. For now, you can use sidecar files instead of storing the metadata in the movie files directly, but there were recently some bugs reported about correct handling of coordinates in sidecar files, like bug#280058. Regards, Michael
*** Bug 292484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Video file metadata is currently implemented in Exiv2 library used by digiKam in background. Gilles Caulier
Also Micheal comment about to use XMP sidecar is the only way to work with Video metadata in writing mode. There is nothing to do to improve this state in digiKam implementation. All future improvements must be done in Exiv2 shared lib. Gilles Caulier