Playlist in a text file with mixed media types

[techtx]

Hi,

Newbie question:

I'm trying to setup a "playlist" that contains media files of mixed types (such as a dvd file, avi file, mkv etc.) and have them be played like a regular playlist.
For example, let's say I want a playlist of ALL action sequences from a list of movies that I have in my collection and would like them to be played one after the other. This is how far I was able to get by myself:

I've created a windows .bat file that has a single line in it:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" dvd://"E:\Movies\DVD\XYZ1"@2:5 :stop-time=45 dvd://"E:\Movies\DVD\ABC1"@5:9 :stop-time=670 file://"E:\Movies\HD\ABC2.mkv" :start-time=4535 :stop-time=4701

As you can see, when I double click this ".bat" file, it invokes VLC and plays movie XYZ1 first starting from chapter 5 of title 2 and ends after 45 seconds, then goes to movie ABC1, plays that for 675 seconds from the specified point and so on. I'm trying to see if I can just create a "playlist" called fav_action.txt organized like this:

dvd://"E:\Movies\DVD\XYZ1"@2:5 :stop-time=45
dvd://"E:\Movies\DVD\ABC1"@5:9 :stop-time=670
file://"E:\Movies\HD\ABC2.mkv" :start-time=4535 :stop-time=4701

and just pass this playlist to the VLC command line. My .bat file would then look like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "fav_action.txt"


Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

[VLC_help]

XSPF playlists do support something like that but I ain't sure if that works with VLC.

[rogerdpack]

XSPF playlists do support something like that but I ain't sure if that works with VLC.

Appears that using the command line (with : prefixed options) or using XSPF both work as desired.

http://betterlogic.com/roger/2010/11/vl ... ist-in-vlc