VLC Media player has a commandline option. In theory you should be able to script something in Python that peeks at a video file, determines its size, slices it up into 5 min slots then randomly plays these .. perhaps leaving out the header and tail so you avoid the title and credits. <br>
<a href="http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html">http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html</a><br><br>Don't laugh, I met somebody who almost exclusively watches videos using this option to load and play shows on her computer / home theatre system, Ubuntu Linux of course. Watching the flawless and rapid entry of these commands on a wireless keyboard just made me sink deeper into the beanbag of amazement. Awesome stuff<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br>PS: .. (great film too "Be Kind - Rewind" from memory)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 August 2010 16:15, Dr Paul Chandler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.chandler@une.edu.au">paul.chandler@une.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I'd like to be able to do the following (for demonstration, front-of-house<br>
purposes) ... show small samples from a video playlist randomly and<br>
continuously; for instance, every five minutes it would choose a random<br>
5-minute sample from a random movie in the playlist and display it, and<br>
once that clip is over, it should choose another clip and do some sort of<br>
fade/wipe to the chosen clip.<br>
<br>
I came across an interesting post about how to do this here:<br>
<a href="http://superuser.com/questions/81044/playback-random-section-from-multiple-videos-changing-every-5-minutes" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/81044/playback-random-section-from-multiple-videos-changing-every-5-minutes</a><br>
<br>
Without resorting to a script (such as described), I wonder if anyone has<br>
any clues as to how this might be achieved?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dr Paul Chandler<br>
Research Fellow<br>
'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,<br>
School of Education, University of New England<br>
(Project website: <a href="http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch" target="_blank">http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch</a>)<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>