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Greetings all,

I am trying to determine how to generate a dynamic playlist for a FOLDER full of only JPG's. In other words, I want to point VLC, via a playlist, to play/loop all the jpg's in a specific folder. I have had success with music and video formats, but jpg dynamic lists allude me.

From a bare bones [.xspf] playlist file:

*** Only use one of these lines used at a time in my xspf test file ***
<location>file:///C:\Content\Music\</location> This works. Entire directory contents loops.(many MP3 music files)

<location>file:///C:\Content\Video\</location> This works. Entire directory contents loops.(many video format files)

<location>file:///C:\Content\Images\</location> This does NOT work. VLC opens an empty playlist window and waits.

While I can create a playlist comprising of JPGS's, it needs to happen automatically / Dynamically, as the content of the IMAGEs folder changes. I suspect/expect that VLC/playlist will need to be restarted, in order for the dynamic playlist to be refreshed. Not a biggie for me.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Andy

By default, VLC ignores files with image extensions in directories. You need to change the prefs.

I've scoured the pref section. I can not see where image extension in directories are set. I have seen references in other posts from years ago, to "NOT" ignoring jpgs in the file module it. I can only assume the settings structure has changed over the years. Any chance you can enlighten me how to navigate to that setting?

Thank you in advance.
Andy

can i specify the time for which each file will be played/displayed before switching to next one. Like display the image1 for 5 min and then go to next one in the playlist.

:image-duration=300

:image-duration=300

Can you help me with where i need to specify this in the code below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/">
<title>Playlist</title>
<trackList>
<track>
<location>C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\images\</location>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>