25 Feb
We’ve recently made it easier to indicate whether a file works or not by voting it up or down within the Graboid Video interface. This voting button is NOT for indicating whether you like the video or not, just whether you were able to view it. You can click on a title in your downloaded titles list, or in the search results list, and vote up or down. The results don’t show up immediately, only when we do a global content update, which is every 3-4 hours.
Please use the feature every time you download or stream a show, as the votes are a great indication for other users as to which files work the best.
One further note is that some users will be able to successfully view a file that others can’t, for one reason or another. With some files, Graboid Video may be unable to play them within the application, and you can view them in another video app, like VLC player, which is bundled with Graboid. This also allows you to directly manipulate the file in other ways, such as changing the audio track (for multiple language videos), turning subtitles on or off (for full DVD rips), and jumping around within the video using the progress bar.
If a file has multiple negative votes, you can be pretty sure it doesn’t work for anyone. But one or two negative may just mean some bad experiences, and if you’re a bit more of an expert on file types, decoding, etc., then you may still be able to get the file to play properly.
You get all this extra power by clicking on Reveal in the downloaded files list when you click on a title. That opens up the folder on your PC that contains the original file. Find the proper file, usually the largest one, and open it with VLC player.
please direct questions or requests for support to the Graboid User Forums. This blog is for general commentary and rants that aren’t rude. Other posts will be deleted.
5 Responses for "Voting Files Up or Down, and the Reveal Button"
The idea of voting is good but maybe you should have made this point at the beginning. The good thing about streaming was that you could take a quick look at the quality of the video or if it worked without using all the download time. I sometimes encounter this problem and it seems like a waste of time, if you are paying for a service you want consistency in quality. Also, download sizes have increased and downloads are appearing as 2CDs or 3CDs why cant we have them together?
I’am really glad you posted this. I have run across a number of video files that where marked by an X. (vote down). I downloaded it anyway and the video file worked. I hope now people will understand fully what the vote up and vote down buttons are used for.
could each entry have a serial number or something so when it do download a bad file you can make sure you don’t download that one again .
[Moderator: The entries actually are unique. So when you flag one using the vote up/down buttons, that particular version is permanently flagged.]
Absolutely you should make clear what happens with the voting - I burned 266mb thinking that streaming was a problem. Also, you should make it a choice to have the vlc take over all your preferences. I spent some time having things the way I wanted, and then to have my audio and visual files get pushed into another player was not a happy moment.
If I download something that does not work, X it, and then delete it do i get the mbs back to use ?
[moderator: Sorry, we're not in control of the content in any way. Use the votes (checkmarks or x's beside a title name) to determine if a file is likely to work before downloading. There are also many ways to make files work that may at first not seem to be openable. At a minimum, click 'reveal' after clicking a downloaded file's title and try playing the file in a viewer other than Graboid.
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