MTV plays music videos again.... In my house anyways.

[Mike A]

I finally got around to setting up a PC to play videos the way I want them played. It was harder than I though it would be at first, but I came up with a simple solution that works for me.

I use VLC player. I had to find a plugin to merge multiple playlists.

I have a playlist with a couple thousand 80s music videos. (Thanks Yotsuya!)
I have another playlist with 30 second MTV bumpers. (Thanks again Yotsuya)
I have a third playlist with 80s commercials.
Finally there is a playlist with PSAs and Schoolhouse Rock.

The Multiple playlist manager takes these lists and merges them into 1 master playlist in the order I choose or I can randomize each of the playlists that make up the master playlist.

Mine is setup to play 3 music videos, then 2 commercials, next 1 PSA or schoolhouse rock segment, an MTV bumper, and then loop back to 3 music videos. etc...

I can save that playlist and run it as is or I can edit it. Every time I run the manager it creates a new randomized playlist.

[KDOG]

That sounds awesome! How many gigs or TB's does it take up?  Do you have it playing own it's own tv dedicated to it? Looking to do something similar in my bonus room/arcade.

[Mike A]

I have a large 1080p TV wall mounted in portrait orientation.

Half of it plays videos and the other half shows a high score leader board for my dedicated machines.

I am not sure how much storage I am using. If I ever get done working today I will check it out and let you know.

[KDOG]

Awesome, thanks. How did you get all the commercial spots. I was thinking of just creating a YouTube playlist for the videos but all the bumpers and commercials are usually in large chunks.