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A short description of the issue:
Video file name sets into YYYY-MM-DD by force. But image file does not.

A small code sample that reliably reproduces the issue. The sample should run as-is or with minimal setup.

python3 & requests

import requests
url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads'
h = {
'Content-type': 'application/octet-stream',
'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % ACCESS_TOKEN,
'X-Goog-Upload-File-Name': 'my_video_file_name.webm',
'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': 'raw'
}
r = requests.post(url, headers=h, data=open('my_video_file_name.webm', 'rb').read())
upload_token = r.text
url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate'
h = {
'Content-type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % ACCESS_TOKEN,
}
j = {'albumId': ALBUM_ID, 'newMediaItems': ['simpleMediaItem': {'uploadToken': upload_token}]}
r = requests.post(url, headers=h, json=j)

The calls to the API that lead to the error. Include the sequence of calls, including request headers and body.
Do not include any personal information, authentication secrets, media item or album IDs.

Uploading bytes response

X-GUploader-UploadID: UPLOAD_ID
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 531
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:04:11 GMT
Server: UploadServer
Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="44,43,39,35"
UPLOAD_TOKEN

Creating a media item response

Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Vary: Origin, X-Origin, Referer
Content-Encoding: gzip
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:04:17 GMT
Server: ESF
Cache-Control: private
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="44,43,39,35"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
"newMediaItemResults": [
{
"uploadToken": UPLOAD_TOKEN,
"status": {
"message": "OK"
},
"mediaItem": {
"id": MEDIA_ITEM_ID,
"productUrl": PRODUCT_URL,
"mimeType": "video/mp4",
"mediaMetadata": {
"creationTime": "2018-09-08T07:04:13Z",
"width": "640",
"height": "640"
},
"filename": "my_video_file_name.webm" // Actual file name. But it will replace.
}
}
]
}

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Upload video file by photos API.
2. Check on web browser or get album contents after a few minutes.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? If you see error messages, please provide them.
Uploaded file name and extension.

Please provide any additional information below.
Since Aug 31, 2018.