Uploaded them here: http://chronial.de/bin/filebot-lang-patch.7z

The DetectLanguage() Api of OpenSubtitles does not return ISO 639-2/T language codes, but ISO 639-2/B ones. At the moment FileBot can’t handle this as it has only a list of ISO 639-2/T language codes.
This does not get noticed a lot, because B and T are only different for a few languages ( See ...

OT, but my ocd forced me ;): Applying this patch will center the text at the top of the screen:

Index: source/net/filebot/ui/HeaderPanel.java
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--- source/net/filebot/ui/HeaderPanel.java (revision 2524)
+++ source/net/filebot/ui ...

Ah, there it was :). Surprising that I missed that code. But are you sure about the true parameter for getFiles here?
frame = new SinglePanelFrame(it).publish(new FileTransferable(args.getFiles(true)));

As recursive (-r) is probably not set, this will just recurse once. But since the ...

I just think the gui should do something sensible when it gets a list of files as arguments. On Windows and Linux that is definitely “use those files”. I have no experience at all with macs, though.

Anyways, here is a patch that preloads the rename list with any files that were given on the command ...

There might be a misunderstanding about the point of such a feature. The idea is not to add a new way of how to use the gui, but just to create a more efficient way of starting it for simple tasks.

The feature in question is only useful and sensible if there is not already an instance of FileBot ...

I did find that thread during my search, but from how I understand it those script will just perform the given action without me being able to check whether I like the results, right? That’s the main point why I would like to have a graphical interface here.

But I’ll have a look, maybe I’ll get ...

Is there a specific reason for this or has it just not been done yet?

Is there a way to create a shortcut that starts the gui for a given folder / list of files?
I want to create an entry in my folder context menu that starts the gui for that folder. Just to be clear, I know how to create context menu entries, I just didn’t find any way to start the gui and scan a ...