Loop a directory?

[Hank Morgan]

Hello all,
New SMP user here and I like it so far. But I haven't been able to figure out how to loop a directory. I can play vids in a directory sequentially just fine, and can loop individual vids with -loop 0, but I haven't figured out how to put an entire directory on continuous loop. Is this possible?

What I'm trying to do is set up a system to showcase animals at a local shelter. I want to be able to put a couple of dozen vids on a usb stick and have them all play sequentially. When it gets to the last vid then it repeats them all again, indefinitely.

Thanks!

Hank

[rvm]

Add the videos to the playlist and turn on the repeat button in the playlist.

[Hank Morgan]

Thank you for your reply rvm.

That does work for me. I was hoping for a solution where the users (shelter staff) could just plug in a USB stick with vids of the current crop of available animals and hit "play" without having to manually add things to a playlist. If I could just set an entire directory to loop that would work great. Looks like maybe VLC will do what I want.

Thanks!

[rvm]

There's an option in preferences -> playlist to add videos from the same folder automatically, so you just play one video, and the rest will play afterwards.

[danikiko]

Thanks rvm for your good answer. I have been the same problem and now I have solved it with your help