Hi!
This is my first time working with metadata. I'm trying to get date & time information from trail camera videos. I'm working with the package camtrapR on R, but it seems there's a problem with the videos (I tried to attach one, but it is too heavy).
> videos <- file.path("~/Desktop/Analisi/Video/")
> datatime <- recordTable(inDir = videos,
+ IDfrom = "directory",
+ video = list(file_formats = c("jpg", "mp4"),
+ dateTimeTag = "QuickTime:CreateDate")
+ )
timeZone is not specified. Assuming UTC
A01: 2 images 1 duplicates removed |===== | 25%
Error in (function (intable, deltaTimeComparedTo, columnOfInterest, recordDateTimeCol = "DateTimeOriginal", :
Could not read any Exif DateTimeOriginal tag at station: A01 Consider checking for corrupted Exif metadata.
Suggestions?
Thank you so much,
Marco
You can put the video on a file hosting site such as Google Drive or Dropbox and create a share link.
But there may not be much we can do here because any R package has been created by a 3rd party. I don't think any of the regulars here work with R.
The error output seems to be indicating it can't find a DateTimeOriginal tag in the video. But DateTimeOriginal is an uncommon tag for video files.
You can use this command on the command line to view all date/time tags in the video
exiftool -time:all -G1 -a -s file.mp4