Comment 1 for bug 507620

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Note: the errors mentioned by Simon are the "Error" and "Warning" messages output on stderr while reading an image file if libexiv2 fails to parse some metadata, e.g.:

Error: Directory Image: Next pointer is out of bounds; ignored.
Warning: Directory Image, entry 0x0000 has unknown Exif (TIFF) type 0; setting type size 1.
Error: Directory Unknown with 54333 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Directory Thumbnail, entry 0x0201: Data area exceeds data buffer, ignoring it.
Error: Directory Unknown with 8f64 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Directory Thumbnail, entry 0x0201: Data area exceeds data buffer, ignoring it.
Error: Directory Unknown with 53c1 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Directory Thumbnail, entry 0x0201: Data area exceeds data buffer, ignoring it.
Error: Directory Unknown with 42dd entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Directory Thumbnail, entry 0x0201: Data area exceeds data buffer, ignoring it.
Error: Directory Unknown with 7c8 entries considered invalid; not read.
Warning: Directory Thumbnail, entry 0x0201: Data area exceeds data buffer, ignoring it.
Error: Directory Canon with 1800 entries considered invalid; not read.