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Questions - exiftool

exiftool shows incorrect Duration for MP3. How does that happen?

Downloaded seven MP3 files from a website. exiftool says the Duration is two minutes. Opened it in an audio editor and find that it is actually four minutes. Opened a (non-downloaded) MP3 file in the...
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WGroleau

mp3

duration

exiftool

id3-tag

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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There should be an (approx) in the exiftool output after the Duration value. Duration is not an embedded tag, it's a value that's calculated on the fly by exiftool. If you add the -G (-groupNames) o...
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StarGeek

exiftool doesn't write to the file sometimes with popen()

file does not save sometimes. can someone please tell me the reason for it. pipe = Popen(f'exiftool.exe -p "lib/ExifTool/gpx.fmt" -S -ext mov -ee "{video_file}" >> "temp...
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Yasiru Withanage

python-3.x

subprocess

popen

exiftool

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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The warnings you received (and the failure to write) are caused by one of the following: Tags ExifTool found in your videos that it doesn't recognize and therefore won't write (but can still read). T...
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Camden

Exiftool export JSON with Python

I´m trying to extract some metadata and store them in a JSON file using Exiftool via Python. If I run the following command (according to the documentation) in the CMD it works fine, generating a temp...
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aGiral

json

python-3.x

export

exiftool

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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I believe the problem is that file redirection is a property of the command line and isn't available with subprocess.run. See this StackOverflow question. For a exiftool solution, you would use the -...
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StarGeek

Exiftool - changing PENTAX related EXIF tags to Pentax

I just discovered that GIMP 2.10 removes JPG EXIF data because of the "PENTAX" in uppercase present in the EXIF data (the bug is described here and here). Tried Exif Pilot freeware and found...
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Juhele

cmd

jpeg

batch-processing

exiftool

Votes: 0

Answers: 2

Latest Answer

Using exiftool, you could use this command exiftool -api "filter=s/PENTAX/Pentax/" -TagsFromFile @ -Model -Make /path/to/files/ The -api Filter option will do a regex substitution changing P...
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