Pictures database and library mode; scan EXIF and IPTC metadata tags into a SQL db

Hi,

I'm having problems getting the scan to work (0 images found). I'm on XBMCbuntu Eden. Please could you tell me how to delete the database so I can start again.

Thanks.

(2012-04-15 14:43)pedr0 Wrote:  Hi,

I'm having problems getting the scan to work (0 images found). I'm on XBMCbuntu Eden. Please could you tell me how to delete the database so I can start again.

Thanks.

The Database is in directory $HOME/.xbmc/userdata/Database and has the name MyPictures.db

(2012-04-15 16:41)Xycl Wrote:  The Database is in directory $HOME/.xbmc/userdata/Database and has the name MyPictures.db

Thanks.

I've been having trouble getting MyPicsDB to recognise my jpg files on an NFS network drive. But I've just re-read the op. Is it still the case that I need to mount network drives to a mount point (i.e. not just use the NFS in the Eden file browser list)?

(2012-04-16 00:26)pedr0 Wrote:  I've been having trouble getting MyPicsDB to recognise my jpg files on an NFS network drive. But I've just re-read the op. Is it still the case that I need to mount network drives to a mount point (i.e. not just use the NFS in the Eden file browser list)?

You cannot connect to a network share from python because python uses the normal file functions.
E.g. you cannot
Therefore you must mount the share

2nd hint:
Don't use multipath sources!

(2012-04-10 11:34)Xycl Wrote:  [quote='mgmartin' pid='1070337' dateline='1333954155']
Still seems to have issues under Linux.
I have to trap exceptcions in the picentry={...stat...} code to successfully scan the folders.

Which directory permission is missing x or r?
I need it to know in order to test the plugin within a vmware linux.

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The directory does not have "x".

Repos changed their location!

Link to repository: repository.xycl.abandoned.dharma
Direct link to MyPicsDB: MyPicsDb version 0.6.7

Version 0.6.8 released.
Update: Browse by Tags menu. This shows you all stored tags in a submenu like Persons, Keywords etc. From there you can select the desired content of the tags.
Hint: The menu uses 3 new tables which are not filled! In order to rescan your pictures without modifying them you must remove the source directory and readd it.


Edit: Please give feedback about performance and desired but still missing tags. E.g. from XMP only the person tag is imported.

Rescanning all images as I'm writing this, and will report results tomorrow.

FFY

Hi

First impression after a rescan is that it works as intended. I see a lot of different fields like GPS coordinates, caption, keywords and more. There seems to be errors with unicode characters in the caption field, but I will check this in more detail in a few hours.

Regarding the scanning of more XMP-fields - I did find this handy chart of the relationship between IPTC and XMP fields - it might prove useful?



(Found here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...6b83e05cd)

FFY

OK - back with some feedback.

I would really like to see all the various keyword fields scanned as previously mentioned. Right now I have to manually copy all information from one field to another to get the keywords added to the addon.

Title / Description seems to not be unicode-converted correctly. Below is an example of one of the images.

This is what the image description looks like in the addon:


And this is the raw XMP-data - as viewed by the exif-viewer at http://regex.info/exif.cgi:

FFY