In the film folder, all movies are sorted in individual folders, as is the tv-shows → season → xx_001, xx_002
The thing is, if I go into the FILM-folder, and if I want to have a look at JUST MY FILMS in grid view with nice cover-art, it is not possible!! All I get is a bunch of “folder”-icons… I would have to go into each subfolder to see the actual movie-file, and thus the actual coverart.
On the other hand, if I sort “all video files”, I do get all the films cover-art - mixed up with hundres of tv-episodes!!!
How have you guys out there organised your files??
In the film folder, all movies are sorted in individual folders, as is the tv-shows → season → xx_001, xx_002
The thing is, if I go into the FILM-folder, and if I want to have a look at JUST MY FILMS in grid view with nice cover-art, it is not possible!! All I get is a bunch of “folder”-icons… I would have to go into each subfolder to see the actual movie-file, and thus the actual coverart.
On the other hand, if I sort “all video files”, I do get all the films cover-art - mixed up with hundres of tv-episodes!!!
How have you guys out there organised your files??
I have my folders organised the same as you.
However, I use ThumbGen to create folder thumbs that show when viewing it as a grid view.
MKV is great, but I have a bunch of old avi’s, mov’s and other with srt-subtitle files…
Not as sure about the .mov because I never tried, but you can open up MKVmerge and input the .avi and the .srt and mux them together into a .mkv. You don’t have to recode anything.
I’ve muxed many .avi files that are divx/mp3 into a .mkv container, and there’s no issue at all playing them back. Takes about a minute (depending on the file and on your computer).
Ok; this sounds like a “terminal”-thing, without any real GUI. Not for me then - no expert, and hate hazzles :)
As it turns out, dumping all audio-files and sub-title files in one folder might seem messy from the computer; but on the HUB it only shows the video files anyway, so no problem…
And also found out that HUB doesnt support *.sub files - any workarounds for this?
…And also found out that HUB doesnt support *.sub files - any workarounds for this?
It DOES support that EXTENSION, but like anything else, the .SUB extension is just too vague. You have to know what format is inside that file.
Most often, .SUB refers to “SUB/IDX,” format, which is also known as VobSub, I believe. If it is that format, I think you also need to have the separate IDX file.
If mkvtoolnix GUI is working for you on your mac, it will handle the sub/idx pair (or at least it should… it muxes in sub/idx files in the Win version).
Also, I’m on mac.