How to play a video at a random start time?

[chunter]

I know how to take a movie and just play a clip of it a specified start and stop time. Like this:

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<track> <location>file://D/Video/Movies/Turbo.mkv</location> <duration>5740736</duration> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:id>54</vlc:id> <vlc:option>start-time=3241.000</vlc:option> <vlc:option>stop-time=3294.000</vlc:option> </extension> </track>

What I would like to do is play a clip of a movie that has a random start time? Is this possible? Thanks

[mederi]

Here is one solution for VLC-2.0.x: Sampler.
Another solution is a playlist generator. Clipper is the manual playlist generator that could be enhanced with an automatic part for clips with random start time. Or you can try to write your own extension script: Scripting VLC in Lua.