Comment 13 for bug 1814014

I didn't have much luck downgrading to 0.9.1, due to dependency issues with pymq. However I did some more checks on the imported files. From the logs, it appears that metadatavideo.py is failing to find the date/time in the videos, so RPD is falling back on exiftool. I ran the following script to view the metadata of the imported files:

for i in $(find <import_directory_name> -name "*.mp4"); do echo $i; exiftool -time:all -g1 -a -s $i; done

This appeared to confirm that the videos' metadata was as shown in RPD. However running the same script on the original video files shows correct metadata with accurate timestamps for the date/time the video was taken.

Could the importance of this bug be raised to a higher level, as it appears to be rather more serious than the original report suggests? If the video metadata is being stripped that's quite destructive and cannot be recovered.