Re: [Tracker] exiftool vs gstreamer

[Alexey Fisher <bug-track fisher-privat net>]

Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 10:40 +0000 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> On 22/03/10 10:30, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> > After a lot of testing i found that exiftool can extract more metadata
> > than gstreamer do.
> > Current gstreamer can't handle any files produced by digital cameras,
> > exaftool can. It handle even ogg, mov, avi, many image formats ...
> > But it can't handle mkv files.
> > So my question is: what longterm solution is better, to add mkv to
> > exiftool or to add exif to gstreamer?
>
> As a guess, I would say GStreamer. I don't know the state of development 
> with exiftool, but GStreamer as a framework is quite widely adopted.


Please do not make answers like: I do not know what is it but i think it
is bad.
here is link to exiftool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

"ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line
application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide
variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats
including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop
IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital
cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf,
Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica,
Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony."