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Background:
We are using VLC to play multiple short films in multiple languages in a theater in a museum. We are looking to add film and language select capabilities for our visitors via custom app and http. Currently we have a looping playlist setup that goes film_1 English -> film_1 French -> film_2 English -> film_2 French -> loop.

Desired functionality:
We would like to keep the default playlist as above but if a visitor selects a film and language it will play all of the films in the selected language beginning with the selected film and then once complete return to looping the default playlist. For example visitor selects film_2 in English a new playlist will be loaded which will play film_2 English -> film_1 English -> return to default playlist and loop.

Questions:
1. Does VLC support multiple prebuilt playlists?
2. Does VLC support jumping between playlists via http?
3. How difficult would it be for a software developer who is unfamiliar with the VLC api to add these features?

Alternate solution:
The alternate solution I see which I am not convinced is the best option is having the language selection app build and empty and rebuild the playlist each time a visitor makes a selection.

Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.

You could try to create playlist files with the desired order of films. Then you can switch between the prepared playlist files with the plugin.

You could try to create playlist files with the desired order of films. Then you can switch between the prepared playlist files with the plugin.

Thanks for the suggestion da2424 I'll look into implementing it that way.