I have been using an app named flixtools from http://flixtools.com/, It got me really curious about how it searches for the movie name. I renamed the movie file with some random text and yet it finds the correct name of the movie for finding subtitles. From a developers view I wanted to understand how it is able to find the real name of the movie file.
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Simply put : the movie name is in the file's metadata.
Most media formats (jpeg, mp3, mp4, etc...) are structured so that, along with the image/music/video data, there are some metadata about the photo/music track/tv show/movie that the file contains.
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