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Posted: **17 Apr 2012 11:19**

I have an app which generates a playlist to play certain parts of a single video (thanks to VLC start/stop parameters). So imagine having 5 playlist items but all referring to a single video, only different parts are played.

However, on VLC playlist window, only the video file name is being displayed, not the title defined in the xml file. Is it possible to customize this part thru scripting? if possible, anyone care to share a sample script?

Posted: **17 Apr 2012 20:52**

Hi! If you alter my Playlist randomizer a bit, you can have playlist generator that you want and then save a new playlist from VLC as .xspf or .m3u file. For example:

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function descriptor()
	return {
		title = "Playlist sampler";
	}
end
function activate()
	actual_playlist=vlc.playlist.get("playlist",false).children
	new_playlist={}
	for i, v in pairs(actual_playlist) do
		for j=120,v.duration,600 do
			new_title=v.name.."-"..j
			table.insert(new_playlist, {path=v.path, title=new_title, name=new_title, duration=v.duration, options={"start-time="..j, "stop-time="..(j+10)}})
		end
	end
	vlc.playlist.clear()
	vlc.playlist.enqueue(new_playlist)
	vlc.deactivate()
end
function deactivate()
end

As you can see, you can set new title for new playlist items. Have you tried VLC Extension: Sampler? Perhaps you will find something useful there.

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Set playlist item title based on the xml file?

Set playlist item title based on the xml file?

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