MovieScanner For Mac

MovieScanner offers you the possibility to quickly visualize details about the video files included in your database with minimal effort. The utility extracts data about the movie resolution, audio track, or subtitles.

To extract all this information, MovieScanner relies on the FFProbe tool that is part of the FFmpeg project designed to handle video and audio processing. The utility brings to the table a minimalist user interface that helps you deal with the tool in an intuitive manner.

Keep in mind that MovieScanner has a quite precise task: it will extract details about the media file to help you determine the difference between two similar files, but that is all. MovieScanner is not intended to help manage your videos collection in any way.

To get started, just load the files you want to analyze either individually, or by making use of the “Add Folder” function. MovieScanner will automatically scan the supported file formats and display the entries in list mode.

For each file, you get to see the file name, extension, size, resolution, the image size, the screen ratio, the format used for the video and audio stream, and the file’s duration.

MovieScanner integrates a simple search tool, but the list can also be sorted by different criteria: file name, file extension, file size, or movie path. If you modify the files in any way, just press the "Refresh List" button to view the adjustments.

Bottom line, MovieScanner provides a graphical user interface for using an open source tool to get information about the files included in your movie collection. Keep in mind though that the app only displays the information: any processing has to be handled by third-party solutions.