Public usb playlist for Linux vlc

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

I have made up a playlist for our local Museum's 50th anniversary.
This playlist is on a usb stick and has Windows vlcportable installed on it.
All works perfectly, many thanks to the good people at vlc for such a fantastic program.
These USB sticks will be sold on our open day to raise money.

Because I am always complaining about the lack of Linux support,
I decided to include a way to run the presentation on Linux as well.
Thought that would be easy, as most Linux installs have vlc and it's just a matter of writing a script.
WRONG

If I create a playlist on the usb, from my pc's vlc install, then save it to the usb stick, then run the playlist, it all works.
On MY computer, but not on any other as the usb drive was identified (with my username) when the playlist was created.
HBM is the name of the stick, but dinosaur is my username on my PC. The HBM can stay but not the username.

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<location>file:///media/dinosaur/HBM/Windows-Presentation/01-Silent%20Movies.jpg</location>

The intention is to have a public playlist.
Make a playlist on a usb and plug it into any Linux PC with vlc and play it.

So, I thought of getting vlcportable for Linux.
To do that is a test of intelligence that I obviously flunked.
To even find a download for Linux proved beyond my patience.

Now I am open to any constructive suggestions.

Regards

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You need to use a playlist format that supports relative URLs, effectively, M3U, and use relative URLs in the playlist file.

VLC has heuristics to do this, but it cannot always work.

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

Thank you Remi, that worked perfectly for me.
The above example line simply became:

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Windows-Presentation/01-Silent Movies.jpg

A total of 40 lines of .jpg and .mov mixed.
Saved as .m3u file.
Once again , thank you

Regards