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Hallo

new user here. I did read most of the help and a lot of forum posts, and it is working very well on my Samsung H5500, thanks.
In fact, this far outperforms Windows 8 build in mediaserver (not even in the same league) or even Plex and Serviio, which I find simply too convoluted to simply install in my laptop, they seem more targeted toward a full dedicated mediaserver. And it seems the only one that can play my DVD from my laptop drive (dvd-menus would be nice though)

Anyway, kudo's aside, I do have a few questions:

- Automatic subtitle download. It seems to have been added last summer, with a clear pointer to the "navigation/share" tab to activate it. And it still features in the compatitive comparison matrix. But I cannot find the actual option anywhere. Was it removed again from the product?

- Is there a way to "push" an arbitrary video file from the PC. So rightclick and "send to renderer" context menu? Probably not, but it would make a nice option. So you can send any file you just got, regardless if it is in a shared drive already. I have other DLNA utility (vGet) that nicely does this, but consoludation is good.

Thanks

Hi cybermaus, thanks for the praise
The automatic subtitle download is the option "Hide the Live Subtitles folder", just untick that and click Save.
I'm not sure exactly about the file pushing but the other developers have added a bunch of new things to 5.0.0 and that may have been one of them.

Hi

You are correct, not hiding the subtitle folder works. And suddenly I understand how the transcode folder works too. Those # folders are a fake folder to simulate menu's. Very clever, I did not realize that before. Thanks for the tip.

One additional remark though: The names in the #subtitle# folder are too long. Unneededly so. One already descends into a foldername with the moviename, so each subtitle "menuchoice" does not need to be the moviename concatenated with the subtitle name. Especially on long movie names, it causes the filenames to be all identical, because the differentiating subtitle part drops of at the right.

Example:

In folder #subtitle# I have folder name "the desolation of Smaug [xvid] [lots of other tags]"

And inside that, I have lots and lots of "the desolation of Smaug [xvid] [lots of other tags] {subr..."
with the rest after "..." not visible.

Of course some will have english, some german, some french. I have to go through them all to try.
But really, why does every file has the first part when the parent folder already designates that?

Interestingly, the #transcode# folder is smarter, it indeed does not repeat the original file name. Maybe best do the same to the #subtitle# folder?
Just a thought.

Thanks