Nearly every picture taken by my Android phone has a comment added "dav" in the metadata. I'd like to understand why and if possible stop the comments from being added. They appear to be in EXIF and some other metadata field.
Images taken with fast shutter [hold down shutter release to take a series of images, used for action shots] have the letters "bst" added instead of "dav".
The phone is a Huawei Honor5C (NEM-L51) running Android 6 and EMUI 4.1. I download the photos using Digikam on Kubuntu to my desktop. Even when I strip the "dav" comments from the EXIF comment field, when I upload to Facebook the "dav" comment is read and appears attached to the images; the actual text is in the
XMP:Caption, EXIF:Image Description, and IPTC:Comment metadata fields.
It's strange, unwanted, and annoying.
Update: On further investigation, opening in gwenview and looking at metadata, the strings "dav" and "bst" arrive with images via EXIF:Image Description and digikam had been set to harmonise that with other metadata sections. So it's less mysterious, just one EXIF field is being written.
Asked by pbhj
(141 rep)
Apr 10, 2018, 01:38 PM
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