[mythtv] Playing a media directory randomly

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sat Mar 20 13:07:12 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 01:18 -0400, Kevin Peltola wrote:
> I absolutely love MythTV, and have used it for years.  I would like to thank
> every developer for all of their work.  After building a large media library,
> however, there was one feature it seemed to be lacking - to shuffle video files.
> Similar to how mythMusic randomly plays tracks, I thought we should be able to
> do this for TV show collections, or movies, music videos, as well.
> 
> After googling it for a while, got bits and pieces of ideas but no real solution,
> finally got it perfected.  It involves a rather simple customizable script, and 
> I've integrated it into the media library menu. Where might I post the details?

This can already be accomplished by adding the "All Programs" group to
the playlist and selecting the random play playlist option.

-- Daniel



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