Python: Script to read and show random videos from your raspberry

Hi everyone,

in this article, I write a minimal script in python to read and show random videos (mp4,etc…) from your raspberry . This script use omxplayer.

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os

import random

import subprocess

#from subprocess import Popen

path = ‘my directory‘

files = os.listdir(path)

n = len(files)

print(‘Element found: ‘ + str(n))

for file in files:

print(file)

#os.system(‘omxplayer -b -o local “‘ + path + ‘/’ + files[rand] + ‘”‘)

#omxp = Popen([“omxplayer”,”-b”,”-o”,”local”, path + “/” + files[rand]])

while True:

rand=random.randint(0,n-1)

print(‘Element random select: ‘+ files[rand])

subprocess.call([“omxplayer”,”-b”,”-o”,”local”, path + “/” + files[rand]])

Please change “my directory” with your directory videos (es: /home/video/).

Save the script in file py (es: showVideos.py) and launch from terminal $ ./showVideos.py

In the second example send the directory from argument

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os

import random

import subprocess

import sys

#from subprocess import Popen

path = sys.argv[1]

files = os.listdir(path)

n = len(files)

print(‘Element found: ‘ + str(n))

for file in files:

print(file)

#os.system(‘omxplayer -b -o local “‘ + path + ‘/’ + files[rand] + ‘”‘)

#omxp = Popen([“omxplayer”,”-b”,”-o”,”local”, path + “/” + files[rand]])

while True:

rand=random.randint(0,n-1)

print(‘Element random select: ‘+ files[rand])

subprocess.call([“omxplayer”,”-b”,”-o”,”local”, path + “/” + files[rand]])

Save the script in file py (es: showVideos.py) and launch from terminal $ ./showVideos.py myDirectory

In short, I will upload the sources into the github

enjoy

Python: Script to read and show random videos from your raspberry