Any chance of using sidecar files for video date/time metadata?
Hi again. For the last week I've been organising my media archive and Immich has been a great help with that (thanks to everyone that helped!) However, through my previous posts here I've learnt that I can only change the date/time of videos by editing the CreateDate tag via ExifTool. This changes the hash of the video and would require me to delete and reupload the videos.
For pictures, using DigiKam and saving changes to an XMP file updates the date/time just fine. Are there any plans for Immich to support the same for videos?
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We've run into a blocker with an upstream project that we are waiting on a fix for, but yes. The idea is to use exiftool and the existing sidecar loading logic for all media. Currently it only uses ffprobe for metadata.
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/2908
ffprobe and exiftool handle video created dates differently and this is causing some problems with our testing.
thanks for the update!