Hi, with the switch to DigiKam 8.4.0 I noticed, that DigiKam is somehow treating timestamp of Video files differently. For example a video from my iPhone (.MOV, MPEG-4). When opening in DigiKam 8.4.0 the "Date of Recording" displayed in the preview is wrong. It seems that it shows the "Modification time. This is usually the date when the file was copied to disk. Doing this with the same file in DigiKam 8.3.0 it show the correct date. Somehow 8.4.0 is reading not the correct (or different) Metadata for videos. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Delete digikamrc 2. Start 8.4.0 with a clean configuration and choose the foder containing the video as the library 3. The video is showing the wrong date 4. Delete digikamrc 5. Start 8.3.0 with a clean configuration and choose the foder containing the video as the library 6. The same video is showing the correct date OBSERVED RESULT - 8.4.0 is showing a different date. Maybe the modification date. EXPECTED RESULT - It should show the same date in both DigiKam versions SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows:
Fixed with Bug 490552 in digiKam-8.5.0 Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1) > Fixed with Bug 490552 in digiKam-8.5.0 > > Maik Thanks for your quick response. I just checked with version 8.5.0 (weekly snapshot - https://files.kde.org/digikam/digiKam-8.5.0-20240917T070205-Qt6-Win64.exe) The behaviour is still the same. Or is your fix maybe not included in this version? THX.
Have you reread the metadata of the affected video files? If so, please upload a video sample so we can reproduce the problem. Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #3) > Have you reread the metadata of the affected video files? > If so, please upload a video sample so we can reproduce the problem. > > Maik I have investigated a bit further and found the issue / workaround. Not sure if it is a bug or works as designed. When I install digikam from scratch where is always an error that it couldn'f find exiftool. As Reading Metadata is done with exiftool, this obviously doesn't work well and the wrong date is displayed at least for video files. When I configure now the path to exiftool a simple refresh with F5 is still not doing the trick, but by doing a "refresh metadata from files" in the album menu is working and now the metadata is reread with exiftool and correctly displayed. I think it is more or less works as designed.
Yes, ExifTool was broken in digiKam-8.4.0. But it should work in digiKam-8.5.0, assuming the path settings were not changed. And yes, ExifTool must work for video metadata. F5 just looks for new items and updates the thumbnail. It doesn't re-read the metadata, but it's true that it's more commonly suspected. Maik
Thanks for your support and explanation. I mark this one as resolved.