FolderVideoPlayer

Plays your own video library from any SMB share or NAS - browse by poster frame, tag favorites, resume where you stopped. Demo built in.

FolderVideoPlayer plays the videos you already own - straight from your own NAS - on the biggest screen in the house.

Point it at a folder on your SMB file share and every video inside plays back to back, with poster frames so you browse by picture, not by filename. Nothing is copied to the Apple TV: video streams from your share over your local network, a piece at a time.

Browse your library

• Poster frames for every video, generated from the file itself - folders with names like 240_300_0QiT5-G141-.mp4 finally look like something
• Smart thumbnail caching - every frame is saved on your Apple TV and on your share, so browsing stays fast even in libraries of 5,000+ videos, and once a thumbnail is made it's never made again
• Sort by name, date or size, with the direction remembered across folders
• Play All plays a folder through to the end, then loops or shuffles

Tag it your way

• Tag videos from the TV with one click - Favorites, and any tags you like
• Tags sync with the FolderVideoPlayer Mac app through your own share - nothing goes through a server or the cloud
• If several people use the same NAS, everyone's tags stay separate automatically

Made for the Apple TV

• Native transport controls, Siri Remote gestures and Now Playing
• Resume picks up where you stopped
• Different Apple TV user profiles get their own tags automatically

Try it without a NAS Built-in demo clips let you explore every screen before you connect a server.

Supported formats: MP4, M4V and MOV.

Privacy: no accounts, no analytics, no servers of ours. Your videos and your tags never leave your own network. Saved server passwords stay in the system Keychain on your Apple TV.