The Shotwell developers need small AVI files created by diverse cameras to improve metadata handling of such videos. If your camera creates AVI, consider uploading a short video in their wiki.
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Shouldn't these changes go into gstreamer? Why are they reinventing the wheel?
anon, you'd get a better answer asking on their list. I think they have investigated the gstreamer approach but I am not sure why it does not yet meet their needs.
anon, I mean if they want this feature now, they cannot wait till it is available in gstreamer and in distros.
@anon: I think the shotwell developers want to get an overview what needs to be changed in gstreamer and are very much in favor of changing things directly there. For example, they filed this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634999 (already fixed in master).
The background of this issue is that each camera manufacturer stores their AVI metadata a bit differently, and of course we want to support as many cameras as possible. We wouldn't be able to implement this feature without your help. Thanks so much to everyone who sent in a video for us to test with!
As anonymous said in the first comment, it would be ideal if GStreamer took care of parsing date/time metadata from video files. As marcelstimberg points out this has been added to GStreamer, but that fix won't be available in time for Shotwell 0.8.
I just grabeed all the files uploaded so far and checked the metadata with gstreamer (gst-discoverer-0.10 -v *.avi *.AVI >disco.txt) and everything gets well extracted. I also checked the debug log (GST_DEBUG="*riff*:4" GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 gst-discoverer-0.10 -v *.avi *.AVI >/dev/null 2>debug.log) to see if there are unhandled metadata fields and none found so far.
I will happly help fixing missing metadata fields if some are found in the future. Also to let you know, we have nice xmp support in gstreamer and if needed that can be easily added to avi files.
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