Get it on the screen you own.
FolderVideoPlayer is two apps that share one library — the player that runs on your Apple TV, and the free Mac companion that manages it. Same shares, same tags, same thumbnails. Pick the one that fits how you watch.
The player, on the big screen
Your whole library on the TV — thumbnails that stay instant at 5,000+ videos, tags that find anything, and resumes where you stopped. No accounts, no cloud, nothing to sign up for.
- Browse any SMB share — Synology, QNAP, Windows, macOS, Linux
- Find it by tag, not by the file name you forgot
- Thumbnails made once, kept — browsing never slows
The manager, on your Mac
The free companion that keeps a huge library manageable from a keyboard — tag in bulk, clear the duplicates eating your disk, and pre-build the thumbnails your TV then shows instantly.
- Tag from the Mac — it appears on your Apple TV, no save step
- Plays a whole folder on loop — QuickTime won't even play two
- Finds duplicates, never deletes — keepers pre-chosen, reason shown
- Suggests tags from what's already true — date, camera, 4K or 720p, GPS place
- Pre-builds the poster frames your Apple TV then loads instantly
Both apps read the same library.
Tags and poster frames live in a small .FolderVideoPlayer folder on your own share. Point both screens at the same share and whatever one of them tags, the other finds — no cloud, no syncing, nothing leaves home.