Videowall

A shell script to play random snippets from a collection of video files.

Requirements

• Python 3
• moviepy
• VLC

Setup

1. Copy build_playlist.py and videowall into any folder that contains video files.

2. If necessary, install moviepy: pip install moviepy

Usage

From the terminal:

1. From the folder with your video files, run: ./videowall

Or, from the Finder:

1. Open ./videowall.

If you need to make the script executable, run: chmod 755 ./videowall

Options

These options determine the behavior of the videowall:

• -a, --sort
  Play video files alphabetically by filename.

• -c, --color HTML_color
  Tint all videos HTML_color. (Default: 3b1e00.)

  Example: ./videowall -c 2e003b

• -f, --format format
  Set the playlist format. Options: m3u, xspf. (Default: m3u.)

  Example: ./videowall -f xspf

• -r, --recursive
  Include video files in subfolders (recursively).

• -s, --speed speed
  Set playback speed. Normal speed is 1.0. (Default: 0.618.)

  Example: ./videowall -s 2.0

• -t, --time duration
  Set the duration of each video snippet. (Default: 30 seconds.)

  Example: ./videowall -t 10

• -x, --no-effects
  Remove all audio and video effects.