Support viewing and cataloging videos in the lighttable

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Editing photos and editing videos is a very different thing, and I would not want to use the same tool for that (and I generally have next to no interest in editing videos anyway). However, cataloging videos and photos, tagging and geotagging them, giving them star ratings, and searching through that… is extremely similar.

Mostly, I take pictures. Occasionally, I'll shoot some videos as well along side. it is frustrating to me that I cannot use one tool to catalog everything.

EXIF and XMP are applicable to photos and videos. Everything I do in darktable other than photo editing, I wish I could do with one tool.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like darktable to support videos in the lighttable and map views, allowing me to import, view, tag, geotag, rate, metadata-edit, label, search, etc, the videos, in the same way and with the same tools as I do with photos. I have no expectation that the darkroom would be able to do anything with them (if somehow it works anyway, I wouldn't complain, but I'd have no expectation that it would).

In the lighttable, I'd expect that the "history stack" and "styles" modules are the only native ones which would need to be disabled. Everything else seems applicable.

Alternatives

If I keep the videos in the same folder hierarchy as the photos, I largely never see them again, because I access that through darktable, and it acts as if they weren't there.

If I keep them in a separate folder hierarchy, then I can easily find them, but they're now disconnected from the photo sessions during which they were shot.

I suppose I could keep them in the same folder hierarchy and use a different tool to organize/tag/rate everything, but:

• I haven't found a FOSS good tool for that
• I actually like using darktable's feature in that area, and don't particularly want to stop