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Make your own TV channel? - bombpersons - 2009-04-10
Sort of...
I was thinking that if I could all my videos in one playlist I could sort of have my TV channel that plays all my anime, doramas etc in a random order, and It could just play in the background. I've been getting a bit fed up with starting and stopping Keyhole to keep the sound in sync =(
Only the problem is, if I set everything to random, and I have a show I haven't seen yet in the playlist, then I could end up seeing the last episode before I see the first. Is there any way to make a playlist play in a random order only for the items that have already been played once?
I just think it would be really cool if you could set it up just like a real TV channel complete with schedules and adverts =D
Edit:
This thread might explain it better: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=288623
Make your own TV channel? - wccrawford - 2009-04-10
Have whatever program you use only pull the 'random' shows from a certain directory. Keep new stuff in a different directory. Problem solved.
Make your own TV channel? - bombpersons - 2009-04-10
I was hoping for a more automated solution =(
Though it wouldn't be as annoying, I would still have the problem of shows appearing in the wrong order.
What I'm trying to do is to randomize which show is played, but each episode in a show played in the right order. E.g Show 1 episode 1 -> Show 5 episode 1 -> Show 3 episode 1 -> Show 1 episode 2 -> Show 2 episode 1 -> etc
I thought that I could have a playlist of playlists and shuffle the playlists, but (at least in vlc) you can only set shuffle for everything in the whole playlist, not individual playlists in a playlist...
Hope that makes sense....
Make your own TV channel? - EuPcsl - 2009-04-10
Maybe Mogulus can do what you want: http://www.mogulus.com/
Make your own TV channel? - Jarvik7 - 2009-04-10
Or you could just watch Japanese TV live... (keyhole etc)
Make your own TV channel? - Zarxrax - 2009-04-10
Why do you want the shows in random order? Cant you just make your own order? On real tv stuff comes up on a set schedule :p
Make your own TV channel? - bombpersons - 2009-04-11
Because I'm lazy =D
I couldn't find anything on the net, so I decided to make a python script to do it. It works, but since I'm a bit rusty at programming, it's a bit dodgey. There's probably a better way to do it with plugins and stuff but, meh..
If anyone wants the script it's here: http://pastebay.com/7659 Just copy and paste and save as *.py
Also to make it work you need a file called config.txt with the first line as the directory where all your files are (each series stored in a folder) and the second line as where your vlc install is.
You'll also need to set vlc so that it shuts down it gets to the end of a file.