[johnnie]

Hi, I'm quite a newbee in programming but did some research in how to autostart an slideshow containing photos and videos.

At this moment I've managed it by using autostart.py containing the following commands:

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import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(Pictures,//mnt//external_sd//<directory>)")
xbmc.executebuiltin("Action(Play)")

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The question is the following:

• Is there a way to add a wait statement before executing both statements in autostart.py?
  
• this because, when I'm using a large amount of photos 4000+ and videos 100+, xbmc has to build his index and then this disturbes the execution of the commands
  
• I've tried autostart with a few photos and videos and then it runs oke.
  

Second question:
Is there a way, to play randomly photos and videos in the folder I'm pointing to?

Third question:
Is it possible that there is a limit of repeating the content of the library?
I've noticed that when I run xbmc, cycling thru a few photos and videos, it stops after approx. 3 hours.

Hopefully is somebody willing me to help out, this will be very appreciated!

Tia Johnnie