Hi Eduo,
Ah. Somehow I saw that the "SubFlix" link didn't work and thought OSS was referring to Flixtools. I just noticed it's supposed to be the same thing even though the name of the topic is misleading.
Yes, the original version was called SubFlix but that was about a year ago. It became Open Subtitles - FlixTools. (Or just FlixTools) and it even has it's own Forum.
1.-Is there an official place to send feedback or should the forums be used?
Either
[email protected],
[email protected] or this forum. Whatever you think is best.
And yes... feedback is more than welcome.
2.-Is there a way for it to only download missing subtitles? Currently it says it won't overwrite "SRT" but subtitles can be in multiple formats and languages. I need to be able to drop a folder and have it search and download only missing subs.
No, not really but I can try to come up with something. The only issue I can think of is that a subtitle can be there as subtitle.srt or subtitle.en.srt. In the last case, I know the English subtitle is there already but I'm not sure how to handle things if you (for example) want both Spanish and English but there is already a file: subtitle.srt.
3.-Is there a way to preview a subtitle? There's tons of mismatched subtitles in OSDB so being able to check the contents would be useful.
That's on the Todo list but I'll move it up.
4.-For the same reason: Is there a way to modify a search manually? When hash doesn't work (I assume it uses hashes) and search is done by name because the database is incorrect (a common example is episode numbering, where the numbering is different), it's not possible to search for alternatives easily (I solved this in SolEol by pulling the proper season and episode from the hash and then searching for that IMDBID)
Under the file list, next to the + and - is a looking glass icon. If you click that, you'll open the manual search. See:
https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtop ... 35&t=15723
5.-OS limits that affect other clients seem to be ignored for Flixtools. Is this temporary or will it be how it works?
I'm not sure what you mean with that. The 24hrs quota?
If you hover your mouse over your username at the bottom (in the current latest 2.1.4) you'll see how much quota you have left. If you've reached your quota for the day, the green/red connection dot in the lower right corner turns into a yellow triangle with a exclamation mark.
I haven't updated SolEol in a while and I'm considering recommending Flixtools for my users that want to use an alternative, but there's the stuff above that makes me hesitant, as they're used to those things already.
I understand. All I can recommend is to just try it out and if something is missing, let me know and I'll make it work somehow.
FlixTools is under active development and it currently has some additional features like auto sync suggestion, convert/add to iTunes etc. There is much more to come but it takes some time to build. Although some features are not active in the free version, the download and upload will always be available. I'm currently working on localizing into different languages and a Windows version is planned as well.
Hope this helps.