I know its been a long time. But I think I have solved the problem of having the same 5 videos show up as featured. I am using v2.7.

Basically I modified the code for the rollerv27 and referenced it. And instead of a list of featured videos I have the roller with random videos. I set mine to pick 12 videos so that each time it rolls through the rotation the thumbnail positions change and it looks different. The roller is originally designed to show recent videos but the recent feature is already implemented in vshare.

The featured code is removed which is likely the way it is for most of your sites too.

It is kind of what I was after - just another way to put up teasers. The only thing that is missing is a longer description attached to each video, but that is only a minor inconvenience.