Re: Auto skipping unwanted parts of videos [ Please help!]

[thomass]

Children are vulnerable to porn or violence scenes. In addition to this, this scenes may be wanted to skip because of moral or religious issues. I think, only a few of us have no problem with facing these scenes when watching a film with their children(if any). The procedure created for substitle can be used for this issue. An editible file ( A text doc for example) can be imported by program. Procedur is simple: Vlcplayer will autoskip the frames (or seconds ) written on the document when it plays the video. I think this would be very useful to most of us,also a database would be created like substitles.

also for interactive usage: A key could be set to add a new 'skip interval' like a key which is already used to add new bookmarks on many programs.( if user enable this prop. then (for example) pressing a key twice would adds their intervals to skip list.) This could be a starting point for your brainstormings.

visual improvement: Skipped parts of a video could be also disappeared from the timeline to make usage esaier. At each skip point, a small (optional) remark could be used to inform the user.

maybe a voice muting? :For rude part of dialogs this could be usefull. Similar to skipping part of a video staff, unwanted part of sound part of a video may be filtered (in other words, auto mute function on predetermined intervals.) On sound files skipping could be used.
At least lead me to do this for vlc myself ( I have no exp)
Thank you for your interest....

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

For the 100000th time: create a spec for this kind of functionnalities.

[thomass]

Thanks for reply.
However I didn't understand:

create a spec

How can I ? Is there any tutorial about that? Please reply again.

[VLC_help]

Best thing would be that IEEE or similar organization would create a spec for this. Otherwise it is quite hard to create standard that even 10% of manufacturers would support.

[thomass]

You mean that it is too much for me?
Is there any method to skip frames/second of video with respect to a text docoment at least? (only for personal usage) Then no need for spec?
Lead me pls...
similar disc: http://forums.elgato.com/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=464
and: http://forums.elgato.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=775

[VLC_help]

Specs have nothing to do with personal usage. Open standards can be used by anyone.

[thomass]

if you also search for this:

for mplayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html

also for xbmc: wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=EDL_(commercial_skipping)_and_SceneMarker_support

check also: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=89914&p=296778#p296778


if you have anything to contribute:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE CONTINUE TO THIS THREAD: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76253 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tuberoseinrain]

It is extremely easy to make skip(s) in the playback of a video (and possibly an audio) file in VLC. Follow these steps:

1. Open the video file in VLC.

2. Click on the “File” tab and the last option would be “Save Playlist”. Click on it. (This is how it looks on mac, and I assume it should be the same on Windows version of VLC as well. If not, you only need to find the “Save Playlist” option in one of the tabs.)

3. In the opened window, write an optional name and make sure the selected format is M3U (.m3u). Then save it exactly in the folder in which the video (or audio) file is located.

4. Then go to that folder and open the created m3u file with TextEdit on mac (or with Notepad on Windows).

5. If, for example, the name of your video file is “School.mkv”, then the text in the m3u file is something like the following text.
(For those who might not know, the “.mkv” in the mentioned name is not a part of the actual name and it is actually the format of the file in our example and it can be different for different types of files. So the name of the file in our example is “School”)



#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:617,School.mkv
School.mkv



6. In this step you need to add the following command to the above-mentioned text:

Let’s imagine the video file’s duration is 10:17 and you want VLC to skip from 2:47 to 4:51 during the playback. For this purpose, you first need to convert these times to seconds.

For converting times to seconds, you can use this free online tool:

https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/hh_mm_ss_to_seconds/


So based on our example, you want VLC to play the video file from second 1 (0:01) until second 167 (2:47) and then from second 291 (4:51) until the end which is second 617 (10:17). So the code you should prepare will look like this:



#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=167
School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=291
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=617
School.mkv


7. Then you should add this command to the original text in the m3u file. The final result based on our example looks like the following code. Please note that you should delete the “School.mkv” which is mentioned in the third line of the original m3u file:


#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:617,School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=167
School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=291
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=617
School.mkv


8. Save the changes. Then instead of opening the video file, open the m3u file with VLC.

That’s It!!! VLC will play the portions of the video you have indicated in the m3u file.


A few points to mention:

1. If you want multiple skips in different parts of the video, you can simply add more same commands. For instance, in the following code there are two skips (from 2:47 until 4:51 and from 7:02 until 9:25):

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:617,School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=1
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=167
School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=291
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=422
School.mkv
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=565
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=617
School.mkv



2. Don’t change the number that is mentioned in the second line of the original m3u file. In my example it is 617, but it will be different in other examples. So you don’t need to change it. (It is actually the total duration of the video file in seconds).

3. These skips will not ruin the lip-sync or subtitle-sync and everything will work well.

4. Don’t forget to include the video file’s format next to the name of the file. As you see above, I have written (.mkv) wherever I have mentioned the name of the video file.


Good Luck