Play from the oldest file first with omxplayer

youtube-dl utility is so brilliant.
It evens set modify time for file exactly the same when the video was actually uploaded to YouTube :)

Now I have interest to generete some playlist sequences.

Here is some of them.

Play smallest files at first. This is great way how to find [skit] videos you will want to delete:

ls -Sr1

Play the biggest files at first. Sometimes I want to delete these video cause it takes a lot of space:

ls -S1

Play the oldes files at first. Live the story:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/videos
ls -tr1 > play.lst

Play the latest files first:

ls -t1

For example this is my sample program to play from the oldest file first:

sudo vi /usr/bin/livethestory

Enter content:

#!/bin/sh

#take the oldest files first
printf %s "`ls -tr1 | head -4`" | while IFS= read -r file
do {

#execute omxplayer instance in new terminal window
#this is quite the only way to enable omxplayer controls
lxterminal -e omxplayer -r "$file"

#just to make sure the omxplayer has time to execute
sleep 1

#do not let go to the next file unless there is some omxinstance running
while ps aux | grep [o]mxplayer
do
sleep 1
done

} done

Set the file executable:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/livethestory

Every time I want to start watch from the oldest videos first I open the directory and press F4:

Now I execute command:

livethestory