No MIMEType in EXIF data

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Hello!

First of all: I thank you so much for the “memories” app. I wished for such an app since the old “gallery” was disposed off. Wish granted :slight_smile:

In my installation (self hosted, no docker, Nextcloud v28.0.2, Memories v6.2.2), there seems to be a mime type problem. For my many videos, I get this or similar messages in the logs:

"Failed to index file /markus/files/Videothek/Eigene/Bootstag1/mvi_2352.avi: No MIMEType in EXIF data: /markus/files/Videothek/Eigene/Bootstag1/mvi_2352.avi"

The same (at least) for mp4 and webm videos. I had a look at the exif data:

% exiftool Siwa-Ezio-Freya-spielen-mit-Karton/VID_20170606_185600587.mp4 | grep MIME
MIME Type                       : video/mp4

so the tag is there.

I read Mimetypes management and had a look: there’s a mapping for those files:

% grep -e '"\(mp4\|avi\|webm\)"' mimetypemapping.dist.json
        "avi": ["video/x-msvideo"],
        "mp4": ["video/mp4"],
        "webm": ["video/webm"],

But there is not a single mime type alias for a “video” type:

% grep video  mimetypealiases.dist.json && echo found || echo not found
not found

So, I have two questions (for now):

  1. Would it solve the problem to add a mime type alias?
  2. How would that look like?

Thanks a lot for your help :slight_smile:

cu
/me

P.S.: In the examples, I use avi, mp4, webm. That’s because a) I’m a bit lazy and b) the error is just the same.

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Hmm, Ping? No Idea, anyone? I can imagine that I’m not the only one with the problem…

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I have the same problem and have thousands of error messages in my nextcloud log from this.

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Same log messages. In my case, this is relevant

Sure enough, the video files in question on my end are corrupted somehow. Maybe an incomplete upload