Using random video filters.

[Baka no Kami]

I'm throwing a house warming party in a few weeks and doing a mad scientist theme. I have a Mythbuntu box running my TV that uses VLC for playing videos off the network.

What I was thinking about doing is taking about 20 old B&W mad-sciencey movies I have, cutting the boring parts and audio out, cutting it into 30sec clips and then setting VLC on random.

Then I started thinking about getting a little more in depth and every so often have one of the clips run with a filter like invert or motion blur. The only way I could come up to do that is to write a script that would pick a random number and based on that start VLC with or without a filter. Of course this would mean VLC would have to close and be restarted by the script at the end of each clip.

Will this work? Or alternately has anyone tried to do something like this before and found a better way?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, you can use RC control interface and choose filters. But maybe the psychedelic filter will be cool for you.