Its powerful feature-set lends itself as an ideal solution for cataloguing large collections of media content. Specifically, it is aimed at collections that traverse multiple storage devices and where it is otherwise inherently difficult to locate a particular file in a collection.

Through its easy-to-use interface, it is possible to quickly and easily locate any file in your collection and play it back.

Videophile is a Direct Show-based application and, hence, it can play-back any media type for which your system has the necessary filters installed. My recommendation, if you are not already using it, is to have ffdshow installed, together with the Haali Media Splitter to handle MPEG-2 and Matroska streams.

You may wish to supplement this with either or both Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative for, respectively, the Realmedia and Quicktime formats, although there is some doubt as to the legality of these filters.

Features

  • Support for user's default Media Player
  • Auto-creation of Library, including thumbnail generation
  • Support for advanced Tagging, using hierarchies, links and synonyms
  • Ability to perform complex, compound searches in order to identify and locate files
  • Ability to create and playback 'highlight' segments from your files
  • Facilitates basic editing of files (through external applications, where installed)
  • Caters for collections that traverse many, offline storage devices
  • Ability to create and organise dynamic playlists
  • Support for a Bluetooth HID profile in order to use the application more conveniently when in TV-Out mode.
  • Ability to generate 'Poster' images of files (commonly used as previews by file uploaders)
  • Facilitates identification of duplicate files

What's New

  • [Functional] In Tile-Mode, when hovering the mouse, the user has the option to see a preview of the file as either a series of still images, or a condensed video preview
  • [Functional] Vee-Hive introduces the idea of 'Assets', which are a means of storing, in a sidecar file, any images/videos that have previously been extracted for some other purpose, e.g. the (just described) mouse-hover functionality, or the creation of Storyboards.
  • [Functional] 'References' may now be associated with either Tags or individual files. A Reference is essentially a link to something 'outside' of the Library. This might be a link to (say) a Word document, or a URL to a relevant website. References are regarded as a type of 'Asset'.
  • [Functional] Files may be moved to new locations within the file system
  • [Functional] Files may be re-named. This can be accomplished via either the File Inspector, or when in List-Mode.
  • [Functional] Items on the Crumb-bar may be dragged and re-arranged via the mouse, making it possible to quickly modify search expressions.
  • [Functional] Tab layouts can be 'remembered' on an individual basis (for example, one tab can be sorted, and in Tile-Mode, whilst another could be unsorted and in List-Mode).
  • [Functional] When sorting, columns can (optionally) be 'banded'. For example, everything over 1080p, is banded as 'Full HD'.
  • [Technical] Updated external components
  • plus many small improvements and bug fixes...