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1. Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 02:50:55 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

   Hey fediverse!

   I'm trying to do a thing that seems simple, but is basically unsearchable.

   I want a piece of software to build video playlists.

   I don't want youtube playlists, which is all I find when I search for this.

   I don't want music playlists.

   I don't want to use the playlist function built in to VLC because, while it's perfectly serviceable, it occasionally crashes while I'm building the list, it doesn't autosave when it crashes, and it's a pain in the ass to move things around.

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   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 02:50:54 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     My ideal piece of software for this would let me tag files with metadata and then build clockwheels based on that metadata such that certain events happened at certain times, and triggered other events based on proximity until the next timed event. (for example: Play one of the videos in this folder at the top of the hour. When it's over, shuffle videos from this folder until the top of the next hour)

     So far I've found some software for music that mostly does this, and I could probably hack up a thing that would make it work for video.

     But that's going to be hacky and fragile.

     I'd settle for just having a good graphical interface.

   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 02:55:06 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     The trick is that I need it to be really easy and fast and obvious to update in one of two ways:

     1 - put a video in the right folder, or tag it with the right metadata, and it automatically gets slotted in to the appropriate places (in a clockwheel, this would be a rule like "newest file with tag" or "newest file from folder" or "least recently played file from folder", the last of which ideally would default to the newest unplayed file and work backwards.)

   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 02:55:07 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Key requirements: Must output a playlist that OBS can understand (or that VLC can understand so that OBS can understand it)

     Must run on Ubuntu

     Must crash less often than editing a playlist on VLC.

     Ideally, this is not a video player, but a piece of software dedicated to managing playlists.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.