Thanks to the theft of my Pi and case of SD cards I am going to have to start the software again. So, I may as well start afresh rather than try and replicate the strands of code that i was in the process of assembling. I am going to download a fresh install of Raspbian and get to work on the Python. Ideally I will configure the Pi to run a python script on startup. This script will need to: Load a splash screen while loading Compile the 6 playlists from any folders sharing the playlist name Play the Videos from the playlists Receive serial commands from an Arduino on boot up (The Arduino will be processing button presses and sending a corresponding function name to the Pi) I am looking to decipher the following example to see if PyMedia is something i could use to achieve some of my goals, however it is taking me a wee while to get my head around it! http://pymedia.org/tut/src/vplayer.py.html