There are many good ideas in the thread. However, the following is a simple, elegant, and quick way to solve an obvious pain point of many users:
While the following definitely makes sense, particularly the suggested work around, it:
- Misses the point that sometimes the details displayed aren’t even clear enough to distinguish between different encodes. Even where it is possible to distinguish, showing the file name would provide welcome additional info about the encode
- Doesn’t detract from the basic point that simply including the file name would greatly improve the the UX for this, admittedly non-standard, use case. Even though this isn’t the purpose of this feature, the current work around of having to split all movies where this is an issue is a lot of overhead and complexity which could easily be avoided with a very simple and elegant enhancement (including the file name as per @xanderstrike’s mock up). While this overhead might be worth it in some cases, for many others it isn’t.
At a minimum @xanderstrike’s suggestion should be implemented. Enhancing functionality beyond this (as per other suggestions in this thread and as per Multiple Cuts Of Movie) may or may not be worthwhile, but there isn’t a good reason not to implement this basic functionality.
