README in sensible-cinema-0.20.1 vs README in sensible-cinema-0.20.5
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-Sensible-cinema (also known to us as "paranoid cinema" [inside joke ha ha] ) is a program that allows you to apply
-programmed delete lists (i.e. Edit Decision Lists [2]) to DVD's you already own.
+Sensible-cinema (also known to us as "paranoid cinema" [our own inside joke ha ha]) is a program that allows you to apply
+pre-programmed delete lists (e.g. Edit Decision Lists [2]) to DVD's you already own.
-I.e. you can edit a DVD to "mute out" or skip certain scenes.
+I.e. you can play or edit a DVD to "mute out" or skip certain scenes.
-It is essentially a linear editor [1] that applies Edit Decision Lists [2] to videos, by wrapping
-a few freely available open source programs [3]
-to accomplish the editing for you. Then you can sit back and relax as you watch the "sensible"
-version of your DVD.
+This allows you to sit back and relax as you watch a more "sensiblized" showing of your DVD.
To use it, basically install it, insert an original DVD that you want to see edited, then run sensible cinema.
-It will pop up some windows where you choose what to do for that DVD, hopefully easily.
+It will pop up some windows where you choose what to do.
+You can either watch it edited, or created an edited version of the DVD, on your hard drive.
+You could burn that edited file to a new DVD, if you desire and have a DVD burner on your computer.
+How? Sensible is essentially a linear editor [1] that applies Edit Decision Lists [2] to videos, by wrapping
+a few freely available open source programs [3]
+to accomplish the editing for you.
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Note that the whole process can at times take hours, so budget some time for it.
Also note that just because a video lacks profanity...does not immediately make it an inspiring experience.
I'd suggest carefully evaluating your motives, and going with those.
Sensible cinema does not a clean movie make of a dirty one. Don't watch it if it's not wholesome! Be nice to yourself!
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Also make sure you aren't out of disk space.
Also you could try a different computer (desktop computers' DVD drives seem to work better at times than laptops')
-Too slow? One big speedup would be getting a faster hard drive (SSD perhaps, though
- sensible cinema mostly reads large files, so a speedy spinning disk might help, too). A second might be to get a faster DVD drive.
- I'm not certain but I don't believe that a faster cpu (or even dual core, etc.), will help much,
- though it might like 3% or something.
- Also ping me if you think it's too slow and I'll see what I can do.
+Also (for power users) make sure your version of ffmpeg is relatively new, as older versions (r19313) is known to crop wrong.
+If you don't know what this means then you're probably ok and don't have to worry about it.
+
+"DVDNAV stream read error!"
+ this typically means a dirty or scratched DVD.
== Feedback ==
Feedback, including feature requests, comments, etc. welcome.
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