Exiftool related tags only work for the first mkv in the list?
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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?).
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?).