VidHub -Video Library & Player

Update 2026.05.03 - Well after trying to like this application for roughly a month, I have to stick by my original review but with some added comments. It’s at best very frustrating to work with if you have your own large library. Regardless of naming files of series and episodes as required for scraping, the application just can’t seem to get them correct, keep them in order, and will quite often fail to recognize random episodes altogether. Also, it has a strange wonky behavior of not keeping rack of watched episodes thus throwing off all efforts to maintain a sequential watch schedule. I’ve tried rescanning, removing series and then reentering them, and just about everything short of pulling my hair out. Although it looks graphically lovely and seems to make sense, there are all kinds of GUI quirks that will drive you insane. Everything from limitations as to how you can manage your own collections of series and movies to layout of editing tools and where and how you can place a cursor and expect the app to react. Again, this is too bad, because of all the applications in its class I’ve investigated, this one actually makes tremendous sense. But it needs a lot of precision development to make it reliable on almost all levels. ORIGINAL REVIEW: VidHub is a very nice idea, and the GUI is pretty attractive but it is wonky as all get out. When creating a playlist it is very inconsistent when trying to enter shows or movies in a particular order. Regardless of how you set the sort, or enter shows in, one day it may work, the next it won’t. Or it may work with one playlist then not when you try to create another. As for the playlists themselves, once you enter a show in, it is immovable. There is no way to re-order them, The only way to do it is to delete all the shows already in a playlist or the playlist itself and start over reentering them all in again and then hope they actually appear in the order you wanted them. As attractive as the GUI is, it seems rather incomplete. There is very little you can do with the various elements as there are few contextual menus to apply. As a result you will spend a lot of back and forth, back and forth, between elements to create a play list…that is if you succeed at creating it the way you wish. At the very least, when creating a playlist one should be able to click and move shows about and place them in any order you wish, but this is not the case. Also, the app does not seem to handle old classic films, foreign films, or older television shows all that well. And trying to find a way to enter the information in a way that will work for you is very tedious and not well thought out. Sometimes shows/films are misread and there does not seem to be any information on them that the app can find even though they exist on IMDB and other platforms. In these cases there is no way to enter in correct information other than the EDIT INFO area, which is very wonky and doesn’t provide much ability to change things. In these cases you just have to accept a weirdly listed item that won’t be catagorized in either the TV or Movie areas but sit lonely in a catch all category named “Other”. It would also be a good idea to provide the length in time a playlist runs. But there is no length provided for the tv shows/films either which is odd. The app is a bit of a trudge, but it does look nice. The concept is great, but the follow through needs a bit of work. I would pay for it, but not until such issues were addressed. The only other reason I would not pay for it, would be for the same reason I wouldn’t pay for any app; which would be if it was only available by subscription. Nope… it’s bad enough Apple plays that game with all their devices and in many different ways to entrap you in Apple’s ecosystem. And to be honest, I doubt I’ll be purchasing anymore apple products after this last iMac, and migrate to Linux. After 32 years of supporting Apple, these past ten to fifteen years have left me questioning the company’s ethics. That and the many many many very creative ways it has gone about ensuring that its customers must continue to pay and pay not just at the first purchase of a system, but throughout its lifetime. Which from what I’ve heard recently is being shortened considerably to force new purchases.

Excellent app overall, but there’s a bug I noticed after the recent update. When watching a video with embedded subtitles, they can’t be enabled. If I select them, it always reverts back to the “Disabled” setting. Thus, I need to download external subtitles. Could you look into this? Thanks!

视频无法正常播放！（现已修复）