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I am building a local server that makes some series episodes and other content available so that I can watch them through VLC. The server itself is working fine, but one detail has been bothering me: the file titles are lost due to the way the URL is structured.

Basically, my server saves the file path in the database, and each file has a unique ID. When I enter the server link to watch in VLC, it is in the following format: "localhost:3000/episode/watch/<id>". The problem is that VLC is using the end of the URL as the title of the file. For example, if I access the URL "localhost:3000/episode/watch/17918", the title of the episode will also be 17918 (see photo below).

I would like to use a custom title without having to change the URL. Is there a way to do this? I couldn't find an answer by searching on Google.

VLC only falls back to file name if there is no title meta-data, so the question doesn't really make much sense. VLC should display the title if there is one. That's up to the server, no matter how you look at it.

VLC only falls back to file name if there is no title meta-data, so the question doesn't really make much sense. VLC should display the title if there is one. That's up to the server, no matter how you look at it.

How can I set the "title" metadata you said? Is this a response header?

That depends on the container. Again, it's up to the server, so this is not the right place to ask for the specifics.