I've posted this on the Synology forums, and also googled and faqed etc., but haven't got an answer. A search on the Synology forums indicates that others have asked the same question and only gotten crickets in return. So I'm going to rub EmpegBBS genie lamp and see if anyone here knows this one...

I just got a new Synology DS214play NAS. It's pretty nifty so far. But it's got one major breaking bug. When you copy video files to the NAS, their "DS Video" app tries to automatically search the internet for metadata about the video files. It's terrible at this job.

It took the file "Cosmos - 09 - The Lives of the Stars.avi" - that's Carl Sagan by the way - and gave me metadata for a movie about porn stars called "The Secret Lives of Adult Stars".

It lets me correct it after-the-fact, but I want to shut off the automatic metadata gathering now, early, before I upload all my files onto this thing, so I don't have to keep correcting these things. So far it's been wrong about 5 percent of the time for the few sample groups I've sent to it.

Anyone know how to do thia? Shut off this feature on a Synology? Or, alternatively, how I can possibly selectively "break" this misfeature through some kind of hacking or editing or port blocking?