Passing options to ExifTool

[Quintasan]

I tried using f2 -f '.*.mp4' -r '{{xt.MediaCreateDate}}{{ext}}' -f ':' -r '-' -f ' ' -r '_' to process my video files but one of the files apparently had no MediaCreateDate set.

Manually inspecting the file using exiftool yielded

❯ exiftool 2022-04-24/2022-04-24-12-31-09-0000531.mp4
ExifTool Version Number         : 11.88
File Name                       : 2022-04-24-12-31-09-0000531.mp4
Directory                       : 2022-04-24
File Size                       : 2.4 GB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2022:10:24 02:40:46+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2022:10:24 18:46:02+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2022:10:24 18:43:11+02:00
File Permissions                : rwxrwxrwx
File Type                       : MP4
File Type Extension             : mp4
MIME Type                       : video/mp4
Major Brand                     : MP4  Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003]
Minor Version                   : 2.0.0
Compatible Brands               : isom, iso2, mp41
Warning                         : End of processing at large atom (LargeFileSupport not enabled)

Turns out, you can enable it by addding -api LargeFileSupport=1 to the command line:

❯ exiftool -api LargeFileSupport=1 2022-04-24/2022-04-24-12-31-09-0000531.mp4
Media Create Date               : 2022:04:24 10:31:09
Media Modify Date               : 2022:04:24 10:31:09

Can we make this LargeFileSupport an optional flag or something?

[ayoisaiah]

Interesting...

What version of Exiftool are you using? It works for me without the LargeFileSupport option and the file I used is 4 GB.

Anyway, to your point...I can provide a F2_EXIFTOOL_CMD that you can set in the environment to override the default.

How does that sound?

[Quintasan]

@ayoisaiah My exiftool is 12.40. Do you have ~/.ExifTool_config file? As far as I am concerned, this is disabled by default unless you enable it via -api flag or via the config file.

That said F2_EXIFTOOL_CMD would be the best way out of this since Exiftool might introduce some other options in the future :)

[ayoisaiah]

@Quintasan No, I don't have that config file so perhaps it is a difference between the versions.

Btw, the F2_EXIFTOOL_CMD solution is not going to work as I forgot that I wasn't running the command directly. Will explore other options

[ayoisaiah]

@Quintasan Fixed by #66

You will be able to configure Exiftool like this in the next release:

f2 --exiftool-opts '--api LargeFileSupport=1' ...