Topic: MovieScanner gives you a quick overview of Movie File Details for Windows or Mac

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MovieScanner gives you a quick overview of Movie File Details (For Windows or Mac).

https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/moviescanner/

MovieScanner – Quick overview of Movie File Details (Win/Mac)


Every now and then you’d like to see if the movie of video file that you have is the one with a particular resolution, or the one with subtitles embedded, or not. Specially when you’ve ripped your DVD collection in the past and now you’re doing the same with your Blu-Ray collection.

For this purpose I threw together a simple front-end for FFProbe, a tool from the ffmpeg project, which rather quickly scans a movie file for it’s details.

MovieScanner is completely free, and available for Windows and MacOS X. Under Linux however I ran into some impracticalities … so no Linux version. Sorry.
Keep in mind that it was written for personal use and to try a few things with Lazarus Pascal, so don’t expect any super miracles.


Quick Overview of Movie File Details

MovieScanner was not designed with cataloging you movies in mind – there are plenty of great programs out there that will do the trick.
It’s also not a program that identifies your movies and/or find additional clipart or information from places like the IMBD or TheMovieDB (MacOS X users: I highly recommend ViMediaManager).

The only purpose this program has is to quickly analyze your video file or files and determine things like resolution, if it’s widescreen or not, audio tracks, embedded subtitles, etc.

This way you can compare the different versions you have without going into a media player and identify the differences between the two files you’re looking at.

This program however does not compare the two, it just lists the specifications of each video file.

Another reason for me to create this program was to do some tests and experiments with Lazarus Pascal. Things like how to use SQLite, how to work with external programs (FFProbe) and how to create my own DBGrid from scratch.

https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/moviescanner/

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