Scanning through a folder recursively to detect the overall bit rate of video files with a certain extension.

Get the overall video bit rate of multiple video files.py

import ffmpeg # pip install ffmpeg-python (not to be cinfused with python)
import psutil # pip install psutil (might require wheels, which might be incompatible with versions above Python 3.9)
import os
import glob
import csv

# The path in which you would like to look for video files
directory = 'M:\VIDEO\MOVIES'

# The file types you want to check
exts = ['*.mp4', '*.mkv']

# Make a list of files by recursve search
input_files = [f for ext in exts for f in glob.glob(os.path.join(directory, '**', ext), recursive=True)]

# Make sure FFmpeg is not running
if not ("ffmpeg.exe" in (i.name() for i in psutil.process_iter())) == True:

	# For each file...
	for each in input_files:

			# Use ffprobe (part of FFmpeg) to make a dict of metadata for the file
			probe = ffmpeg.probe(each)

			# Limit the dict of metadata to the video stream specifically
			video_stream = next((stream for stream in probe['streams'] if stream['codec_type'] == 'video'), None)

			# Find the bitrate value in the dict
			bitrate = int(probe['format']['bit_rate'])

			# If the bit rate is larger than 8 Mb/s...
			if bitrate > 10000000:
				print(each)
				print('The overall bit rate ', '(', round(int(bitrate)/1000000, 2), ' Mb/s)', ' is higher than 10 MB/s.', '\n', sep='')
				
				data = [each, bitrate]

				header = ['File', 'Bit rate in bytes']
				with open('Files exceeding the bit rate limit.csv', 'a', newline='') as f:
					writer = csv.writer(f)
					writer.writerow(data)


			else:
				print(each)
				print('The overall bit rate is lower than 10 MB/s.', '\n', sep='')