Managing Stills & Video across linux and windows clients

tedbar <tedbar-g/[email protected]> Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:32:24 +0000

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I am running Digikam, V8.7, on Linux (Mint) and Windows clients. They both access a MySQL DB on an Ubuntu server. This has some challenges, particularly around Tag management (probably captions too), however, I am not using Captions at this point.

To get both Linux and Windows clients working there are effectively two collections for Pictures and two for Video. I tried aliasing the paths to get both to 'see' the images/videos in a single collection but was unsuccessful.

Having two collections, Linux 'sees' one while Windows 'sees' the other.

For Pictures metadata (i.e. Tags) are written to the files and from time to time the DB is updated from information contained in the files. This works OK but is very slow on a moderate size collection.

With video files (AVI format) this does not appear to work. Checking the files using exiftool the tags do not appear to be written to the AVI files. 

How does Digikam store the Tag info for AVI files?

Is there a smart workflow for using both Linux and Windows clients, against a common DB, which allows Tags set using one system to be recognised by the other?

Thanks in advance.


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