DVD Power Hour Project Help.

[GlockMasta]

Hey,

Some buddies and myself are looking into creating a "power hour" DVD. For anyone who doesnt know a power hour is where you take a shot of beer, every minute, for an hour. What we want to do, is pull 60 second clips out of movies, music videos, internet videos, etc, and splice them all onto a dvd, with a timer in a corner, that counts down from 60 seconds. What we would like to do, is to have around 150-250 clips on the dvd, that play randomley, each time, so no "power hour" is ever the same.

I have general expierience authoring DVDs, and my buddy is a Computer Science Major, who has all around programming knowledge etc.

Where should we start? How can we go about doing this.

Thanks in advance guys!

[borax]

Where should we start?

Here:
http://www.mmbforums.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=10188&hl=randu

[spyhawk]

Instead of using all these registers to keep count of the seed, you can just use the built-in random generator: GRPM(x)=rnd(y) where y = 0..65535 That's more than enough to have over 250 random clips. For count down, either embed the counter into the video of 60 sec or use SetNVTMR command to define timeout duration.

If this is for a class project, you guys will need to do more research. With a CSE background, learning DVD VM commands is a piece of cake.

[borax]

DVD-Players even have a built in shuffle play. But the built-in random number generator in most stand alone players always creates exactly the same sequence. That's why these people have created their own algorithm for this task.