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ExifTool => Bug Reports / Feature Requests => Topic started by: js29pub on August 03, 2011, 04:55:45 PM

Title: Feature Request: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata
Post by: js29pub on August 03, 2011, 04:55:45 PM
I wanted to request a feature: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata.

I saw that it is labelled as Read only in the Supported File Types, but tried it anyway:

exiftool -DateTimeOriginal+=3 Clip04.dv
Error: Writing of DV files is not yet supported - Clip04.dv

My main interest is in the DateTimeOriginal field, to correct situations where I had the date/time set incorrectly while recording.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Feature Request: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata
Post by: Phil Harvey on August 04, 2011, 07:24:03 AM
Thanks for this suggestion, but I don't think that exiftool will be writing any video formats in the near future due to the complexity of the formats, the vast number of different video formats, and the large file size.

- Phil
Title: Re: Feature Request: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata
Post by: js29pub on August 04, 2011, 12:56:29 PM
I see.  So I gather it's not as simple as just replacing a single field (which exiftool already knows how to read) with a new value and spitting out the rest of the file with identical bits?
Title: Re: Feature Request: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata
Post by: Phil Harvey on August 04, 2011, 08:44:06 PM
It would be that simple if that is all exiftool did, but exiftool is designed to be much more flexible and powerful than that, and I don't like the idea of adding half-assed write support.

- Phil
Title: Re: Feature Request: Writing DV (Digital Video) metadata
Post by: js29pub on August 04, 2011, 10:22:36 PM
I see, makes sense to not want to do something half-baked.  Thanks.