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Hi, there is a really cool program I found here: styxar.com/vidrand.htm

You choose a folder and it plays random parts of random videos in the interval that you specify (e.g. 10 seconds). It automatically gets the videos in subfolders and well and is almost perfect. Theres just one problem!!!! AVI only

Anyone know how to do this with vlc?

VLC itself doesn't have feature like that. But you could script it, so something like problem is that some files have incorrect timecodes or VLC cannot parse them. Files like that wouldn't work as one would expect.

This superuser question has a more complete example of how to achieve this with VLC

https://superuser.com/questions/81044/p ... -5-minutes

There are some software packages that have done this, but the ones I know of are abandonware... shell scripts never die

Styxar Video Randomizer (Windows, AVI only)
Voop (OSX, Quicktime only) http://metastatic.org/source/Voop/

python example for the scripting approach: https://superuser.com/questions/81044/p ... -5-minutes

Try VLC Extension: Sampler (PG)