I’m sorting and renaming old video files, and one of the pieces of information I need is the date the video was filmed. By default dolphin shows the date the file was created/modified/accessed, but not shot. I have verified this information exists on the file with the MediaInfo app, which shows what I need under the encoded and tagged dates. Is there a way to have dolphin also show that information for video files? Bonus points if it can convert the default timezone of the stamps (UTC) to local.
And yes, I am aware that I could create a custom script for the context menu that would find me that info. I may do that if needed. But I wanted to see if doing it this way works first.
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The difference is that created/modified/accessed timestamps are stored in the filesystem, for every file, while the info you want lies within the data of certain file types. You would need an extension/plugin to teach Dolphin how to recognize those file types, extract the info, and display it.
I think Thunar (the Xfce file manager) can do this, but I don’t know if such a thing exists for Dolphin.
If you don’t find one, you might not have to create a custom menu extension, since it looks like others have done this sort of thing already. For example: https://store.kde.org/p/1418250/