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Dear all,
I would like to play random segments of random videos that can be found within a certain folder. From what I could understand reading here and there, the main problems come from playing random segments. For this reason I'm writing a bash script in order to pass the videos I want to play to VLC.

Here's some questions:

1. This doesn't do the trick since only the last start and stop time are applied to each videos. using :start-time doesn't work either. Is there any way to make --start-time and --stop-time item-specific?

2. Since I couldn't get the line at step 1 to work, I will probably re-launch VLC with each video file. This is not ideal since it takes time between a video and the following to re-start VLC. Besides, the final result is not continuos. Here comes another problem though: I cannot set VLC to fullscreen manually after the command in bash because, as I said, it will be restarted after each video. Now, using the -f flag results in the movie playing fullscreen with the shadow of the VLC playlist window on top of it… is there any workaround for this?

Thanks a lot

You could use playlist.
http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=149688

Thanks.
This seems exactly what I needed.

On the other hand, I'd like to keep working on my script so if anyone could answer my questions that would be great!

Thanks again

Actually, it does NOT work. It plays the same segment from every movie and not a random part even if Random Position is checked.

Anybody managed to make it work the way I would like it to? If yes, could you please post the workflow?

Thanks