Need to play a directory tree randomly, help!

[cafevincent]

I'm looking for a way to launch a directory tree filled with videos. I need it to be random play and also launched directly to screen 2 (TV). This way it would be like my personal TV channel. I have been using MPC, it can remember the previous location of the player window and can launch fullscreen.. so this would be perfect if there was a way to easily put directories in its playlist and set it to random play automatically but there isn't. For now I have to do this random playing of folder trees thru Winamp (with very limited video format support and bad performance). Any recommendations? I could make a cmd script of some sort but I have no ideas there either.

[Leak]

I'm looking for a way to launch a directory tree filled with videos. I need it to be random play and also launched directly to screen 2 (TV). This way it would be like my personal TV channel. I have been using MPC, it can remember the previous location of the player window and can launch fullscreen.. so this would be perfect if there was a way to easily put directories in its playlist and set it to random play automatically but there isn't.
Well, you can add files to MPC's playlist by calling "mplayerc /add <path>" at the command line - leave out the "/add" for your first directory to clear the list; you can't randomize the playlist that way but I guess Casimir666 wouldn't mind adding a "/randomize" switch to MPC Homecinema if you asked him...

np: The Orb - Orb Is (Shopping Version) (Bicycles & Tricycles)

[maxhavoc]

Windows Media Player allows you to create playlists of anything you want and you can set it to shuffle mode. I created a playlist of all my TV shows by selecting my TV show directory and adding everything recursively. It works great for me. Just open the playlist and you're done. The only problem with that method is that when you add or remove something from the directory, you need to update the playlist.

[MLS]

I asked Gabest for this very feature a long time ago when he was active. Never happened though unfortunately. Just being able to add files to playlist recursively is enough for me.

/MLS

[Leak]

I asked Gabest for this very feature a long time ago when he was active. Never happened though unfortunately. Just being able to add files to playlist recursively is enough for me.
Still, asking the new developer can't hurt, can it? :)

np: The Orb - Outlands (Live 93 (Disc 2))

[MLS]

Still, asking the new developer can't hurt, can it? :)

Certainly not, I wasn't implying it was hopeless--on the contrary, I very much hope it gets added.

I may have to just make a directory structure change to make it easier.

/MLS

[cafevincent]

I was able to create a batch script (with the help of some perl) to make a video only playlist from a directory tree. Also when 'suffle' has been enabled in mpc it will automatically randomize the loaded list every time. Nice. Now if my Vista would allow me to add a shortcut in the 'send to' folder it would make using the script as easy as possible.