Subj : Re: Hello, Raspberry friends..
To   : paulie420
From : Blue White
Date : Sat Sep 12 2020 09:33 am

to a system that AUTOMATICALLY begins playing a random video
 pa> playlist, and then goes to the next random video on button press. I
 pa> also play a few photos before that, and a Philco Predicta commercial
 pa> prior to random videos.

That sounds pretty awesome!  Does it play random old TV shows?  That would
be really cool.

 pa> But, I need to write some code that does a PLAY RANDOMS 1st *ELSE* PLAY
 pa> NEXT ON BUTTON PRESS -- but I am super new to Python... so, I'm trying.
 pa> Lol.

Can't help you there... I took a python class once.  All I got out of it
was that I was better off sticking to COBOL.  :)

 pa> Anyway, thats my long intro... and hello, PiNet... I'll continue to
 pa> check the FTN on [The Underground] and I'm hoping theres some traffic
 pa> here. I'd love to carry a Pi-related FTN.

I have been wanting to eventually take a bunch of the DVDs I have, save
the content digitally, and then set up a Pi or other sbc as an input to my
TV.  When there is nothing good on cable, I could switch over and see what
the home network is playing... an old Woody the Woodpecker, Popeye, or
Looney Tunes, or maybe an episode of the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or
One Step Beyond.  Or maybe some old Indycar race.

My challenge would be getting it to not be playing the videos quite so
randomly... I would want the old TV episodes played in cronological order.
I think I could at least fix that in my file naming conventions.  I figure
programming that in COBOL would be a real challenge!  :D

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