Video player with watch Folder

[Jim Brown]

I think you will find Playback Pro an excellent solution IF you use a Mac. Program is made by VT Video Labs.

I have not found a PC equivalent.

Jim Brown
M & M ProductionsUSA
Oak Ridge, TN

[Dan Seeley]

Jim – Thanks for the suggestion.

Playback Pro is a great program, I’ve been kicking the tires with a demo version. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it will watch a folder – or let you update the clip list once the show is started. Both of which are important for this project.

The help is greatly appreciated regardless.

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[Ken Geary]

One way, (I never tried but may work):
Name all your clips as numbers, 001, 002…etc.
Then just replace video clip in folder PBP is working from with same #. The DANGER in this is if PBP wants to play a clip that is in the process of being copied over. Again, you have to test this out.
Your other choice is SCALA products. Made for digital signage but the player does play video clips and is made for changes on the fly. Its not as commonplace as PBP and very pricey.
Lastly, use 2 PBP macs running and use a switcher, while on is offline, you can change clip order/etc. I’m not sure how short each clip is and that may be an issue not giving you time to re-arrange clips.

Good luck

Ken

[Thomas Leong]

Try vlc from vlc.org

Has loop, random playback. Watch folder is the Playlist which you can have displayed on a second monitor. Use Windows Explorer to select/drag n drop videos onto the playlist. Only problem is the Play controls, when disconnected from the fullscreen video playing and dragged to the second monitor keeps disappearing after a few secs. To bring it back, just drag the mouse to the fullscreen video monitor – use the corner to get the mouse barely visible.

Thomas Leong