[vlc] media 'slideshow': movies + pictures (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell]

jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>


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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:13:58
From: Wim Bertels <wim.bertels at khleuven.be>
To: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu at gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures
Resent-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:14:18 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user at lists.debian.org

Stephen Allen said that Shotwell can do both, and Joe Zien said that
Gwenview can as well. You might look at one of those.

Gwenview only works for for pictures.
Shotwell imports movies, but doenst play them in a slideshow

Also: I just ran VLC on a directoryful of jpgs, and it happily played
me a slideshow with ten seconds per frame. Mixing up media types seems

[...]

$ vlc some_dir_with_pictures

doesnt work here:
version:: VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower

the error:
"main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `J440'. VLC
probably does not support this sound or video format. Unfortunately
there is no way for you to fix this."
[although i noticed vlc does accept some picture formats (eg JPEG image data, EXIF standard 2.2)]

$ file image.jpg:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
was not accepted by vlc

Which version of vlc are u using?

mvg,
Wim

Randomizing is left as an exercise for the reader, though.

vlc has a lot of command-line options, -Z/--random seems interesting ;)
Kind regards,
Andrei