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Posted: **18 Mar 2016 03:29**

Hi!

I use PasLibVlc 2.2.2 with Delphi 10 Seattle which works perfectly, thank you!

But how can I get the video TITLE (aka "movie name") which is displayed as an overlay when PasLibVlcPlayer1.TitleShow = True as a string?

So I don't want to display the movie title with the TitleShow property, but I want to get the movie title as a string, so I can show it in a TLabel, for example.

I couldn't figure out how to get the movie title as a string.

Could anybody tell me the trick? Many thanks in advance!

Posted: **18 Mar 2016 16:56**

In the meantime I have discovered how to supposedly get the video title:

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ThisPasLibVlcMedia := TPasLibVlcMedia.Create(VLCPlayer.VLC, VLCPlayer.GetMediaMrl);
try
  CodeSite.Send('===>>> Title', ThisPasLibVlcMedia.GetMeta(libvlc_meta_Title));
finally
  ThisPasLibVlcMedia.Free;
end;

However, this seems to have a bug as it does NOT GET THE MEDIA TITLE BUT:

• In the case of an MP4 file it gets the FILENAME instead!
• In the case of a Youtube video it gets the URL instead! (In a strange encoded format).

Posted: **25 Mar 2016 20:32**

OK, you need to PARSE:

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ThisPasLibVlcMedia := TPasLibVlcMedia.Create(VLCPlayer.VLC, VLCPlayer.GetMediaMrl);
try
  ThisPasLibVlcMedia.Parse;
  CodeSite.Send('===>>> Title', ThisPasLibVlcMedia.GetMeta(libvlc_meta_Title));
finally
  ThisPasLibVlcMedia.Free;
end;

However, this works only with LOCAL media files, not with Youtube videos. Why?

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