Title: Show video file names Last modified: September 23, 2020 --- # Show video file names * Resolved [sarumbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarumbear/) * (@sarumbear) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/) * Hi * I have a suggestion to make, if I may. * It is maybe normal for the images not to show the file names but I think it is imperative that video file names are displayed. Otherwise the thumbs may not necessarily explain what video it is. Besides, as we cannot select the thumbs. * Maybe you will consider adding an option for showing file names to the shortcode for individual galleries and possibly to the advanced setting as a global setting? * Thanks for listening. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fshow-video-file-names%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Marek Dědič](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marekdedic/) * (@marekdedic) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13446374) * Hi, is a caption under the video (when you open it) not enough? * I’d be willing to discuss and possibly add such a feature if a good proposal came through (I think using some other field than filename would be preferable) and someone the created a pull request with it… * Marek * Thread Starter [sarumbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarumbear/) * (@sarumbear) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13446392) * > is a caption under the video (when you open it) not enough? * Just imagine you are a production house and you are sending a client various versions. The thumbs will be the same. How would you know which is what version? Opening all videos one by one in order to find the version you want to see, is pretty cumbersome. Don’t you think? * This is how Google Drive displays. [https://snipboard.io/q64Jiz.jpg](https://snipboard.io/q64Jiz.jpg) * I think copying how they do will be the best option. I expect with their army of UI and UX experts they came up with a good solution 🙂 * > (I think using some other field than filename would be preferable) * What other field name you had in mind other than the file name? Where will that be entered? - This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [sarumbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarumbear/). * Plugin Author [Marek Dědič](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marekdedic/) * (@marekdedic) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13448166) * Hi, well, ok, I can see a use case where this might be useful. * As for the field to be used – e.g. for image captions we use the `description` field of the file, so probably that. * In the end, it boils down to the same as [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-captions-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-captions-2/)– we’d be open to this if someone made a pull request, but currently with our limited resources, it’s not a priority for us to implement this (we have more pressing stuff to implement). * Marek * Thread Starter [sarumbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarumbear/) * (@sarumbear) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13448240) * > As for the field to be used – e.g. for image captions we use the description > field of the file, so probably that. * The problem with that is, there are no practical ways to add such a metadata into an MP4 video using the readily available and used video encoding software. * > currently with our limited resources, it’s not a priority for us to implement > this… * I understand. * Plugin Author [Marek Dědič](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marekdedic/) * (@marekdedic) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13449586) * The description isn’t a property of the video file, rather a property of the file on G Drive. You can add it by opening the video and clicking on “Details”. * Thread Starter [sarumbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarumbear/) * (@sarumbear) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-video-file-names/#post-13449723) * I understand but as it is a meta that is specific to Google Drive, you have to use their interface to add it. Whereas people maybe simply syncing their computer’s, NAS’ file system to Google Drive. Description brings another layer to the process. 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