[Libexif-devel] Re: Re:Re: Canon extensions in libexif

[Paul I. <i_p...@ya...>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:46:03 -0700, Daniel M. German wrote:

> 
> 
>  Paul Ionescu twisted the bytes to say:
> 
>  Paul> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:05:24 +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
>  >> Paul Ionescu wrote:
>  >>> Hi list,
>  >>> 
>  >>> I noticed that the canon extensions for exif are not decoded by
>  >>> libexif. Maybe they are proprietary extensions, but I don't know for
>  >>> sure. Is anyone interested in adding them, or already working to
>  >>> adding them to libexif ?
>  >>> 
>  >> They were working, but may be they are broken. Don't you see info in
>  >> makernote data ?
> 
>  Paul> I see that makernote has "Unknown data": Paul> Format 7 "Undefined"
>  Paul> 1208 bytes unknown data
>  Paul> Should I report this as a bug somewhere ? Paul> Should I send some
>  samples of my canon pictures somewhere for testing ?
> 
> 
> There are several fields that nobody really knows what they are. This
> might be one of them.

Maybe there are several fields that nobody knows about them, but we should
just skip only them, not all the makernote data.
The exiftool does it, as it displays most of the interesting Canon info in
my tested picture.

Thx,
Paul