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Video file/title names fine with version 3.4.1 Beta 3. Thank you.

Regrettably VLC3.4 beta still has the same issue effectively rendering it unusable on a Android TV with a NAS.

Oh NO. Just downloaded VLC 3.4 beta on my Sony TV from Google Play Store and it has exactly the same problem as 3.3.4 causing VLC to gradually become unusable with a NAS as played file names all become the same unintelligible name . Iv'e been patiently waiting since January 2021 for VLC 3.4 which I ...

ok thx, will see if I can get it on my TV. Release candidate stage sounds promising.

Is it possible to get a beta version of 3.4 on my Sony Smart TV with the file names fix? Nine months now and still no ETA for 3.4 release, I keep checking and 3.4 milestone been 87% for ages.

Actually it is going back more than three months since v3.3.4 was released in Jan '21. My Sony TV only offers me the current version in Google Play Store (v3.3.4) which gradually becomes unusable as played file names all become the same name. Would be nice to get an ETA as no way of telling the vers...

Good news about the nightly build. Is there anyway to get that on my Sony TV? Version 3.3.4 with the issue is the only version in the Google Play store.

I expect this is the problem: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156326 And is a known issue tracked here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/1434 No ETA for fix which is surprising as it is a showstopper given that one-by-one, once played file names change to a...

I expect this is the problem: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156326 And is a known issue tracked here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/1434 No ETA for fix which is surprising as it is a showstopper given that one-by-one, once played file names change to a...

Rich85 I'm now using Nova Video Player (app install on TV), it plays whatever I throw at it. It took me a while to get everything added to my library as the metadata scrape needed some manual intervention. You could try Plex but will need install on NAS and app on TV. Intend to go back to VLC when ...

Is there anyway of finding out when this might be fixed and updated for TV as it is a showstopper? I sort of think VLC is not updated that often for the PC, but not sure about the Android version.

I expect this is the problem: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156326 And is a known issue tracked here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/1434 I'm not sure when our TV's will get a fixed updated VLC version; the TV downloads the latest version when it become...

Oh dear, just realised this is a much bigger problem than I originally thought. The history file (title) name problem I mentioned above I have always noticed since installing VLC on my TV about six months ago. Now I have noticed the same problem with video file/title names when browsing my NAS. They...

When I stream video from my QNAP NAS using UPnP to the VLC app on my Sony AF9 (android o/s) TV the video file name is not shown in the history. What I see is stuff like: x-matroska,pn=,ext=.mkv or mp4,pn=AVC_MP4_HP_HD_AAC,ext=.mp4 If I copy the same video files and play from a USB stick attached to ...