File names do not show in shared files using Ubuntu 20.04 Media Sharing
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and enabled Media Sharing. My TV and other devices see the shared media and plays them well when I try. However, I cannot see the filename, only some stuff which I think part of the metadata of the files. For example, things like SDH
or English, Dutch
or something like that. The following picture shows some these files when I browse them on the VLC Player:
I tried to find a soluion and found out that the DLNA server is something called Rygel. I tried the following: I editedrygel.conf
under ~/.config/
, changed extract-metadata
to false
. I, then deleted the media-export.db
file under ~/.cache/rygel/
. Disabled and then enabled the Media Sharing. It did not make a difference.
Is there anything I am missing? I only want to see filenames, I don't care about metadata.
Solution 1:
I found the cause of the issue but not unfortunately no solution - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/-/issues/598. I guess we will need to wait till they fix this bug. From the bug descritption: "Between versions 1.14 and 1.16, there has been a change either in gst-discoverer itself or in some underlying part of gstreamer, which causes gst-discoverer to now leak title tags from subtitle tracks into "main" title track, which in turn causes problems in applications that rely on gst-discoverer."