From 44149d187f960224f76f2eee870df508f40a46a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Stachl <286093+tstachl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:46:54 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat(server): enhance metadata reading for video files
 (#23258)

---
 server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts b/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
index 6073ddcb22..32882de0e0 100644
--- a/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
+++ b/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { BinaryField, DefaultReadTaskOptions, ExifTool, Tags } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 import geotz from 'geo-tz';
 import { LoggingRepository } from 'src/repositories/logging.repository';
+import { mimeTypes } from 'src/utils/mime-types';
 
 interface ExifDuration {
   Value: number;
@@ -103,7 +104,8 @@ export class MetadataRepository {
   }
 
   readTags(path: string): Promise<ImmichTags> {
-    return this.exiftool.read(path).catch((error) => {
+    const args = mimeTypes.isVideo(path) ? ['-ee'] : [];
+    return this.exiftool.read(path, args).catch((error) => {
       this.logger.warn(`Error reading exif data (${path}): ${error}\n${error?.stack}`);
       return {};
     }) as Promise<ImmichTags>;