Better way for skipping Intros, credits and other filler material

[flaimo]

Hi,

I have a feature request. I would like to see a functionality like https://addons.videolan.org/content/sho ... ent=159976 which allows me to skip intros and end credits of episodes when binge watching a series (also maybe other stuff like "previously on series X" scenes, those 2-3 seconds after commercials before the host of a talk show starts talking,…).

But I have to say the strategy how the currently available add-on are implemented are not the best. I had something like companion files in mind. Every video file also has a corresponding "chapter" file (or metadata in the video file itself) which could look something like this:

00:00:00.000 - 00:02:35.000 Intro
00:02:35.000 - 00:03:15.000 Recap
00:03:15.000 - 00:44:12.000 Content
00:44:12.000 - 00:45:33.000 End credits


In VLC there would be checkbox settings which would allow me to decide which parts of an video I would like to see.

The chapter types would probable have to be standardized somehow, so that other media players could use the same functionality. Basically like subtitle files.
I know this is a little bit of a chicken/egg situation since video file providers would have to start doing that, but I think the media player functionality needs to be there first.

[eerkatoka]

Yes, and option to include that metadata in subtitle files with specially formatted subtitles for those times. Video viewers not supporting that feature would just show a weird subtitle on that time and move on.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Some kind of EDL, right?