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Applications / Re: EXIFTool
« on: April 24, 2025, 04:17:31 pm »
Hello,

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Because "EXIFtool_2-2.zip" (2005) is from Marcel Mueller and it is a .exe binary with it's source code.
ExifTool Perl Module (ExifTool_Perl_9-46.wpi) (2014) I have no idea how to use it.
Martin, according to its description this version from Marcel Mueller doesn't handle mp4 videos which is my basic intention.

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I downloaded https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-13.27.tar.gz, it doesn't even need installed. You should install some other Perl packages, see the README, then open ANPM, go to the available packages, scroll down to perl and you should be able to guess which packages supply stuff, eg the 1st 2 requirements,
Dave, thank you very much for this possibility.
I alread made a quickcheck and could successfully read the recording date of one of my mp4 videos. So it does what I want by using an up to date Perl installation :) :) :) and I don't need to worry further about the 9-46 WPI package any longer.

Background of my question is to treat the videos of my camera in a similar way as my jpg photos.
I have a REXX procedure which renames my photos in a sequence which follows the shooting timestamp of them.
PMView can easily set the file timestamp to the shooting timestamp in the EXIF data. So I don't have to care about the timestamps when the jpgs are written to my PC or when I have worked on them. Of course, PMView doesn't care for videos.
That is where the EXIFTool comes in. I now can read out the recording dates of my mp4s and I'm planning to use touch.exe to set the file date(s) accordingly.

Thanks Dave as well for your Dooble translations and all of you for your responses in this matter.

Hansi.

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Applications / Re: EXIFTool
« on: April 23, 2025, 09:38:40 am »
Hi,

thanks for all your suggestions so far.
I also guess, that the WPI tool only cares for other WPI installations, but not for RPM packages.
There are some Perl RPMs on my system, the one named "Perl" is on version 5.16.1-9.
Dave's suggestion to install Paul's Perl 5.8.8 WPI package was my first idea but it is not available (for me) anywhere.

So there seems no other way as to inspect the WPI package in its details, as Lars already suggested in the German OS/2 forum.
I'm not familiar with this and I will try to follow Steven's advice. This will take some time and whenever I succeed I will report it here.

Hansi




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Applications / EXIFTool
« on: April 22, 2025, 03:58:45 pm »
Dear friends of OS/2,

although I'm watching OS2World for many years I now have my first question to you:

I'd like to use the EXIFTool on my ArcaOS 5.1.1 to read the recording dates out of the mp4 videos from my camera.
On hobbesarchive I found a WPI file with version 9.4.6 of the tool. However, it doesn't install successfully.
It says that "Paul Smedley\Perl\Base\5\8\8\0" is missing (see attached screenshot). After this window the installation terminates.

I do have standard Perl libraries installed on my system but I don't know (or find) the requested version.
There are some other versions of the EXIFTool on hobbesarchive but neither of them can handle mp4 videos.

Does anybody know what to do to run this specific version of the EXIFTool?

Thanks
Hansi

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