Re: [Openexr-devel] EXIF meta data attributes in headers

[Brendan Bolles]

On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Lars Borg wrote:

> An advantage of using XMP as the native metadata format, is that you can move 
> the entire XMP blob into other file formats that support XMP.


But do any non-Adobe programs use XMP?  We could also embed the binary EXIF 
data (possibly zipped) as an attribute if programs are more likely to support 
binary EXIF.  XMP has the advantage of being human-readable.  Both have the 
disadvantage of not being easily parsed into individual parts without another 
library - individual attributes would be easier.

I agree it would be great to get more camera metadata standardized in OpenEXR.  
I use a custom attribute to embed binary ICC profiles.  I would certainly love 
it if the OpenEXR library were to make it standard.



Brendan