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@sem For the playlist side you could make a bash script that picks random videos from your videos samba share, maybe calling out to file or ffmpeg to get the length so that it can get around 30 minutes worth, and generate a vlc playlist, then open the playlist in VLC.
If you also want to apply "VCR" video filters over the top then it might be able to tell VLC to do that as well?