[Offtopic] Playback random selection from multiple videos

[Dr Paul Chandler]

Hi all,

I'd like to be able to do the following (for demonstration, front-of-house
purposes) ... show small samples from a video playlist randomly and
continuously; for instance, every five minutes it would choose a random
5-minute sample from a random movie in the playlist and display it, and
once that clip is over, it should choose another clip and do some sort of
fade/wipe to the chosen clip.

I came across an interesting post about how to do this here:
http://superuser.com/questions/81044/playback-random-section-from-multiple-videos-changing-every-5-minutes

Without resorting to a script (such as described), I wonder if anyone has
any clues as to how this might be achieved?

Thanks,

-- 
Dr Paul Chandler
Research Fellow
'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,
School of Education, University of New England
(Project website: http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch)

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