#1 : 17/11-24 19:45 Simon Creamer
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Just upgraded to version 4 (4.05 and 4.06) and found that video (MKV) related scripts and tags that used to work in version 3 only seem to work for the first file now. As a test, I tried keeping things simple and found that even that doesn't work:
New name: <Height><Inc Nr:1> -> With MKVs: first file works, others just show the incremented number. With JPGs: works fine for every file. If I delete EXIFTOOL.EXE from the aren folder then: With MKVs: None show any height. With JPGs: all work. So, looks like an issue calling exiftool repeatedly? (I tried updating exiftool from the exiftool website but then none of the MKVs work so that didn't help. I also tried using the version of exiftool from my 3.x reinstall and even that didn't work.) |
#2 : 18/11-24 08:04 Kim Jensen
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Reply to #1:
The current version relies on Exiftool for MKV support. The next version (4.07) will have native support for MKV, which will help you a lot in this case. ExifTool can be very slow at times which results in timeouts if it takes too long. If the file is large, timeout is more likely. I am working hard to add native support for as many file formats as possible, without the need for Exiftool. |
#3 : 19/11-24 16:34 Simon Creamer
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Reply to #2:
I'm glad to hear that the tags might be supported natively in the next version but I think that there's something else at play here. By opening a command prompt and running exiftool on a directory of 42 MKV files, I can see the values of every tag in under 2 second total (and I suspect that a good deal of that is just me being slow hitting stop on the stopwatch). Even if it took 2 seconds per file, it wouldn't explain how the first file always works then the others don't (I think that I read that you had allowed 8 seconds or something as a timeout value?). |