Question Video player that plays random video, random timestamp, random duration?

[kyrie6576]

Like title said is there a video player that is capable of playing a random video from a playlist, at a random timestamp, for a random duration and loops itself for research purposes? I searched the internet and found a couple of solutions but not tech savvy enough to pull them off.

 

[yticpmis234]

maybe a custom script that launches vlc ? you can run it under WSL on windows

Please, Log in or Register to view codes content!

Random Video Player Script Documentation​

This Bash script, random_video_player.sh, is designed to play random videos from a playlist named playlist.txt using cvlc (VLC media player command line interface). The script will continuously play random videos at random timestamps for random durations until interrupted by the user.

Prerequisites:​

• VLC media player must be installed (cvlc command should be available).
• A playlist file named playlist.txt containing the list of video file paths.

Usage:​

1. Ensure that the playlist.txt file is in the same directory as the script.
2. Make the script executable: chmod +x random_video_player.sh
3. Run the script: ./random_video_player.sh
4. Press Ctrl + C to stop the script and exit.

Functionality:​

• The script reads the playlist.txt file to retrieve a random video file path.
• It then selects a random timestamp within the video duration and a random duration to play the video.
• The selected video is played using cvlc with the specified start time and duration.
• After finishing playback, another random video is selected, and the process repeats indefinitely until interrupted.

Notes:​

• Adjust the max_duration variable in the script to set the maximum duration (in seconds) for each video playback.
• Ensure that the videos listed in the playlist.txt file are accessible and have appropriate file permissions.
• This script assumes that the video files listed in the playlist are supported by VLC media player.

 

[kyrie6576]

Please, Log in or Register to view quotes

Thanks so much for your reply. Does this work for you?

I have so many questions but I will take this slow and try to figure out everything you wrote myself first. The learning curve is strong with this one haha.

 

[yticpmis234]

Please, Log in or Register to view quotes

Any issues or if you want to customize it , just feed the script to either Bing-GPT or codellama-70b-instruct , first ask it to read it and describe what it does. Then ask for modifications one at a time. Run the script, if there is an error feed it back to the LLM, it will figure out the solution 9 out of 10 times. Have patience and fun.

BTW the fun thing with using the command line version of VLC , is if you ever want to expand the scope of your project ... you can play a 2x2 grid of four videos running random clips of random duration as you wanted to, a video wall and stream that to a TV in your house network using either a chromecast or a rstp stream.

LLM links for debugging / customization

• Bing GPT 4
  Please, Log in or Register to see links and images
• codellama-70b-instruct on Perplexity Labs ( you can will have to change the LLM model using the drop-down menu on the bottom right of the screen )
  Please, Log in or Register to see links and images

Reading material for expanding your project cvlc documentation + examples

• Stream to chromecast --sout-chromecast-ip=
  Please, Log in or Register to see links and images
• Documentation:Streaming HowTo/Command Line Examples
  Please, Log in or Register to see links and images