Skip scenes in movies automatically?

[jackuars]

So there are some movies that has n*de scnes etc, and I don't want my little sister who's 13 to watch them. So how do I automatically skip these frames and play the rest and how do I do this using a media player?

For instance pre-defining 2 different points in movies so that it skips to the next point when it reaches the end of the last point.

[Ghitulescu]

You have the answer in the question.
Use Parental Guide.

[TheSkiller]

Whats the media the movie is on? DVD? Where will it be played?

It would be rather easy to do with DVD but you would have to re-author the DVD.

[setarip_old]

@jackuars

Hi!

If I remember correctly, quite a long time ago (perhaps 10 years or more) members of the Mormon Church (Church of Latter Day Saints) made such sotware available for editing out both "undesirable" video and audio...

[jackuars]

@TheSkiller: It's on my HDD, not on DVD.

Isn't it possible to do something like A-B repeat, where we define two specific points and play the movie in a continous loop, rather than that, define two specific points so that it would jump to the second defined point while the seek bar reaches the previous point.

[Ghitulescu]

Since you still do not disclose us what format your R-rated movie has, nor what player you (or your sister) use, probably the best answer is to use a video editor, that accepts your movie, and cut out by hand the offending scenes, then output it in this "censured" form. be sure then to keep your copy under key :).

[jackuars]

Since you still do not disclose us what format your R-rated movie has, nor what player you (or your sister) use, probably the best answer is to use a video editor, that accepts your movie, and cut out by hand the offending scenes, then output it in this "censured" form. be sure then to keep your copy under key :).

The file is in .avi format, and I've the setup to most media players out there, although I use PotPlayer and VLC more often.

[Ghitulescu]

You're out of luck AFAIK.
There is no way I know to protect a file from being played on a PC.
Cut your file and give your sis the censored copy.

[sheppaul]

Recent update of potplayer includes such a feature, AFAIK.

* Added the ability to skip chapters/bookmarks
* With the example that shown in the pictures below, the program skips 17:42~21:30, 25:15~28:41, 32:18~37:20 these intervals when skip chapter(s) option is checked under right click > playback > skip.

http://www.dvbsupport.net/images/screen/other/sf1.jpg

http://www.dvbsupport.net/images/screen/other/sf2.jpg

From http://www.dvbsupport.net/info/potplayer.html

[irishogan]

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[jackuars]

Recent update of potplayer includes such a feature, AFAIK.

* Added the ability to skip chapters/bookmarks
* With the example that shown in the pictures below, the program skips 17:42~21:30, 25:15~28:41, 32:18~37:20 these intervals when skip chapter(s) option is checked under right click > playback > skip.

http://www.dvbsupport.net/images/screen/other/sf1.jpg

http://www.dvbsupport.net/images/screen/other/sf2.jpg

From http://www.dvbsupport.net/info/potplayer.html

Excellent thanks. I knew such a feature was there in PotPlayer, just couldn't find it.

So all we do is to create bookmarks on the seek bar for places to skip...Lovely

[Ghitulescu]

But don't forget to tell your sis don't use VLC, use PotPlayer instead :)

[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

[hubblec4]

Hi jackuars

You should use Matroska files instead of .avi files.
With Matroska is it very very easy to skip video content. You can always change the skip parts without changing the original content.

When you use VLC, there is another cool feature which lets you skip content of a video.
GotoAndPlay(ChapterUID) is a chapter process which is used in VLC and it works.
You could try my chapterEditor to generate ordered chapter and the GotoAndPlay feature.

[StainlessS]

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