Archive for April, 2009

Playing home videos randomly

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

My kids are currently obsessed with watching home videos of themselves. They’d rather do it that watch stuff on telly. I got bored with sitting there manually clicking on videos for them to watch, so I wrote a little script to play videos randomly using VLC. Given a parent directory, it searches all sub-directories for AVI files, randomises the list and then plays each one using VLC. Change DIR to the location of your videos:

playvids

To stop it, run the following script:

stopvids