Hey guys, I am pretty new to this. I am working on turning my Le Potato into a TV shuffler. I have decided to go with Armbian, since I can't SSH (which is required for the CoreElec method), because I use college internet, and it just isn't configured properly. I am currently trying to get a script going that will open a folder and begin randomly playing videos from within, but I cannot figure out where to start really. I think I need to import mpv into the script somehow, but I honestly cannot find any resources on how to do this. 

 

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

I guess you could do something as simple as a bash[0] script, really.  But something like Kodi would give you a lot more control, I think (among many other niceties).

 

I would also try and figure out how to communicate with the device over the network, if at all possible.  Barring that, I guess you could use an IR remote (especially in Kodi).

 

[0] or Python, or whatever language you like

#!/bin/bash

TOP=/home/share/video/music

if [ -n "$1" ];
then
    TOP=$1
fi

OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'

find $TOP -name "*.[maowf][povgklm][gvim]" -print | shuf -n 100 > randomplaylist
mpv -fs -vf=pp=de --playlist=randomplaylist
rm randomplaylist

IFS=$OLDIFS

This will play 100 randomly selected files from /home/share/video/music and subdirectories or whatever directory you pass on the command line.

4 hours ago, CryBaby said:

"*.[maowf][povgklm][gvim]"

 

 

Interesting regexp.  Where did you find that?  Or it's your own handiwork?

 

I wrote the script years ago but as far as I recall I made the regexp myself. I probably just made a list of all the video file extensions I had and then listed the letters in each position.