Playback random selection from multiple videos

[pdchandler]

I came across an interesting post here: http://superuser.com/questions/81044/pl ... -5-minutes

The author wanted to find a way of doing the following: show small samples from a video playlist randomly and continuously; for instance, every five minutes it would choose a random 5-minute sample from a random movie in the playlist and display it, and once that clip is over, it should choose another clip and do some sort of fade/wipe to the chosen clip.

This is just what I'd like to be able to do!

Without resorting to a script (such as described in the above), does VLC have a way of doing this? If not, can I request this feature?

Regards,

[ivoire]

I think it can be done from an external script (like in the thread you pointed out). Or it can be done as an extension to vlc (lua extension). Or it can be an application build on top of libvlc (really easy to do).