Sensible Cinema

Welcome to the (work in progress) home page of Sensible Cinema, the free video scene skipper/muter.
Sensible Cinema allows you watch edited movies by applying edit lists (EDL's) 
(i.e. "mute out" or "cut out" questionable scenes) to DVD's or movie files.

A description and history/background of sensible-cinema can be found here.  
Don't forget to come back to this page to download it, though (from the "Download" section).


Download

To download, please check the checkbox if you agree to the terms of the 
license agreement (gplv3) and wish to download and use sensible cinema.  

  I have read and agree to the license terms and conditions.


After download, unzip it.  For windows users, that's like: 
   Reveal the file in explorer -> right click on the file -> Extract all -> Extract.  
Now open the newly created sensible-cinema-x.x.x folder, and run the file "run sensible cinema.bat"
You will be initially prompted to accept the license agreement(s) and also install a few 
(non included, separate ownership/distribution) dependencies.
Now insert a DVD you own, and restart sensible cinema to see available options.
Note that you want to download from sourceforge not from github.com (github is just the raw source).
There is more usage documentation within the "sensible-cinema/documentation" folder contained there.


Mac user prerequisites
Mac users will need to install some programs first.

If you plan on watching any movies in "realtime" then you'll need to download mplayerx.

If you plan on doing any auto-video editing/saving then you'll need to install macports.  
Install macports, then afterward open the "terminal" Application and execute the following command:
$ sudo port install mencoder ffmpeg gocr
After this finishes (it will take awhile) you'll be ready to run Sensible Cinema.
Note that by installing these, you're accepting their respective licenses/distributions.


Upconverting/upscaling DVD/video player
Sensible Cinema comes with its own upscaling/upconverting software DVD/movie file player. See it and the various other things that sensible cinema does here.


Available edited movie lists
You can see the (small) current list of DVD edit lists (EDL's) thus far available here (all of them created previously by volunteers like you).  
If yours is already there, then you might be good to go.  Just use it.

If yours isn't there, then we'd ask you to help us by creating and submitting your own EDL (delete/cut list) for your DVD that doesn't have one yet, 
see the how to create file for instructions on creating a new delete list. 
Then run the file "advanced-edit or create sensible cinema delete list files.bat" to create and edit your new delete list.  Sensible Cinema has a few things to help you there.
Don't forget to upload your new file back to us when you're done, so others can benefit from your work (see "contact", below).

That link is the full list--your help is wanted/needed to help it grow!


Other Resources/Contact/Support

Let me know via the google group or email rogerdpack@gmail.com if you have feedback or have any other ideas/suggestions.

Source code
Source code is all available here.  Notes for potential source code developers are here.  
For (techy or non-techy) contributions, see the contact info in the README file, or write to the google group, above.

You can see the change log with feature list.

You can get a list of DVD ISO's (creative commons licensed) here, if you want to try them out for experimenting/development/research etc.

Please click the license agreement checkbox at the top to see a list of some old releases (newer ones are found on sourceforge exclusively, old ones here).