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The content I see browsing my local network (SMB share) from VLC for Apple TV is mostly identified by filename, including the extension, rather than the title of the content. In one instance, it seemed VLC actually read the "title" tag from an MKV file and displayed the content title rather than the filename while browsing. Interestingly, it also sorted the file properly -- the title began with "The" but it was properly sorted by the next word after "The," while the filenames sort alphabetically so that "The" appears with the T files. I haven't been able to reproduce that behavior with any other files. Is VLC supposed to read the metadata? Is there something I need to do to get it to read the title tag from all of the files? Is there any explanation for why it worked only with this one file, while they are encoded the same way with the same type of metadata tags?

VLC uses TMDB https://www.themoviedb.org/ API https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

In my case, it seems to working fine in fetching the cover art from TMDB for most items, but only rarely does it display the item title without a filename extension. Is this a bug?