I just added many video files (mp4) to a folder in digiKam collection and noticed that xmp sidecar was created for only one file. If I for example add geolocation to the file that has xmp I get no GUI error and GPS coordinates being added to the sidecar. Here is the output of the terminal: --- digikam.geoiface: "setting backend googlemaps" digikam.geoiface: "ROADMAP" digikam.geoiface: located data: QUrl("file:///usr/share/digikam/geoiface/backend-googlemaps.html") digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 10 % digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: isReady() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/backends/backendgooglemaps.cpp:402" digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 50 % digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.general: 0 1 digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.general: 1 2 digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 100 % digikam.geoiface: Map Loading Completed: true digikam.geoiface: "ROADMAP" digikam.geoiface: "backend googlemaps is ready!" digikam.geoiface: "googlemaps:8" digikam.geoiface: 8 digikam.geoiface: QVariant(QPersistentModelIndex, QModelIndex(0,0,0x0,Digikam::GPSImageModel(0x4033410))) QSize(32, 58) digikam.geoiface: QVariant(QPersistentModelIndex, QModelIndex(1,0,0x0,Digikam::GPSImageModel(0x4033410))) QSize(32, 58) digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lat() < currentBounds.second.lat() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:256" digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lon() < currentBounds.second.lon() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:257" digikam.geoiface: "level 4: 0 non empty tiles sorted into 0 clusters (0 searched)" digikam.geoiface: start updateclusters digikam.geoiface: end updateclusters digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161023_191434_x264.mp4: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.metaengine: MetaEngine::metadataWritingMode 3 digikam.metaengine: Will write Metadata to file "/mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161023_191434_x264.mp4" digikam.metaengine: Cannot save metadata to image using Exiv2 (Error # 11 : /mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161023_191434_x264.mp4: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.metaengine: Metadata for file "20161023_191434_x264.mp4" written to file. digikam.metaengine: Will write XMP sidecar for file "20161023_191434_x264.mp4" digikam.metaengine: wroteComment: false digikam.metaengine: wroteEXIF: true digikam.metaengine: wroteIPTC: true digikam.metaengine: wroteXMP: true digikam.metaengine: Metadata for file "20161023_191434_x264.mp4" written to XMP sidecar. digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.general: 0 1 digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lat() < currentBounds.second.lat() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:256" digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lon() < currentBounds.second.lon() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:257" digikam.geoiface: "level 4: 0 non empty tiles sorted into 0 clusters (0 searched)" digikam.geoiface: start updateclusters digikam.geoiface: end updateclusters --- If I try to add geolocation to another file from this folder I get the error "Failed to open file" after pressing "Save". No sidecar being created. Here is the output of the terminal: --- digikam.geoiface: "setting backend googlemaps" digikam.geoiface: "ROADMAP" digikam.geoiface: located data: QUrl("file:///usr/share/digikam/geoiface/backend-googlemaps.html") digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 10 % digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161015_093414_x264.mp4: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161015_093414_x264.mp4: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: isReady() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/backends/backendgooglemaps.cpp:402" digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 50 % digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.general: 1 2 digikam.general: 0 1 digikam.geoiface: Maps Loading Progress: 100 % digikam.geoiface: Map Loading Completed: true digikam.geoiface: "ROADMAP" digikam.geoiface: "backend googlemaps is ready!" digikam.geoiface: "googlemaps:8" digikam.geoiface: 8 digikam.geoiface: QVariant(QPersistentModelIndex, QModelIndex(1,0,0x0,Digikam::GPSImageModel(0x3a3d000))) QSize(32, 58) digikam.geoiface: QVariant(QPersistentModelIndex, QModelIndex(0,0,0x0,Digikam::GPSImageModel(0x3a3d000))) QSize(32, 58) digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lat() < currentBounds.second.lat() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:256" digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lon() < currentBounds.second.lon() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:257" digikam.geoiface: "level 4: 0 non empty tiles sorted into 0 clusters (0 searched)" digikam.geoiface: start updateclusters digikam.geoiface: end updateclusters digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /mnt/data/FamilyPictures/2016/2016-10/20161015_093414_x264.mp4: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.geoiface: ---- digikam.general: 0 1 digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lat() < currentBounds.second.lat() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:256" digikam.geoiface: "ASSERT: currentBounds.first.lon() < currentBounds.second.lon() - /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/digikam-5.5.0/core/utilities/geolocation/geoiface/abstractmarkertiler.cpp:257" digikam.geoiface: "level 4: 0 non empty tiles sorted into 0 clusters (0 searched)" digikam.geoiface: start updateclusters digikam.geoiface: end updateclusters --- I did try creating an empty sidecar manually but I got the same error and no information was written to it. All files have same writing permissions. All videos taken on same camera. digiKam set to write to sidecar for read-only images. Any ideas on why is this happening?
Please let me know if you need any further information from me to investigate the issue. I think this issue might be related to this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366247
Git commit eff4ffdf83c336c28b8398c5c24f7010aa69895b by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 23/05/2017 at 19:11. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. ignore loading error of metadata if sidecar file writing enabled FIXED-IN: 5.6.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +7 -1 utilities/geolocation/editor/items/gpsimageitem.cpp https://commits.kde.org/digikam/eff4ffdf83c336c28b8398c5c24f7010aa69895b
Hello Maik, thank you for fixing this. I will test it as soon as an updated 5.6 appimage available. My only concern is why is the error popping up for some files while there is no error for other files. All files in the folder are very similar (same camera, same encoding, etc.)