Day 12 - Automatically resume last played video in vlc - 100 days 100 python scripts

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Day 12: resume_vlc

If you are annoyed by opening recently played videos again and again it's the script for you. You can schdule this script so whenever you open your system it will automatically resume that last player vlc video with the paused seconds.

import configparser
from constants import configFilePath #Vlc configuarion file path
import os, urllib.parse

configParser = configparser.RawConfigParser()   


configParser.read([configFilePath])
recent=configParser["RecentsMRL"]

last_watched=recent["list"].split(",")
time_list=recent["times"].split(",")

if len(last_watched) >0 and len(time_list):
    p=(urllib.parse.urlparse(last_watched[0]))
    finalPath = urllib.parse.unquote(p.path)
    last_stopped_seconds=int(time_list[0])/1000
    if last_stopped_seconds >5:
        last_stopped_seconds=last_stopped_seconds-5 # Go back 5 secs
    os.system("vlc --start-time="+str(last_stopped_seconds)+" '"+finalPath+"'")