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@@ -11,24 +11,26 @@ It will pop up some windows where you choose what to do. Note: please install from the zip files at https://sourceforge.net/projects/sensible-cinema/files/ and not from github's "download" button. See the "install" section, below, for finer grained details. -Sensible cinema basically allows you to create an edited video version of the DVD, onto your hard drive, and you can watch it there. +Sensible cinema basically allows you to create an edited video version of the DVD, onto your hard drive, +and you can watch it there. It also has some realtime playback support via the use of EDL playback in some +popular video players. How? Sensible cinema basically takes the original DVD, slices out the bad parts, then combines it back into a new file and gives you the result. -It is basically a linear editor [1] that applies Edit Decision Lists [2] to videos. It wraps +It is essentially a linear editor [1] that applies Edit Decision Lists [2] to videos. It wraps a few freely available open source programs [3] to accomplish the editing for you. -It also has a few "realtime viewing" options available, again based on open source software [3]. +Note that the process can take several hours, so budget some time for it. +It also has a few "realtime viewing" options available, again based on some freely available +open source software [3]. -Note that the whole process can take several hours, so budget some time for it. +On a more moral note, just because an edited video lacks profanity/sex scenes...does not immediately make it an inspiring experience. +I'd suggest carefully evaluating your real values/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 uplifting! Be nice to yourself! -Also note that just because an edited video lacks profanity...does not immediately make it an inspiring experience. -I'd suggest carefully evaluating your real values, 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! - dove.org and common sense media are good references for discovering the "uplifting" level of movies [4]. kids-in-mind.com is also a good reference for profanity levels, though sometimes it misses profanities, and it also lacks timestamps to know when the profanities occur. Hence this project. Also note that even if you happen to have an edited copy of a DVD floating around, if you have kids, chances are they will eventually find (and watch) the unedited originals, so be careful there. @@ -104,16 +106,14 @@ option to buy specific "filters" but are obliged to purchase a monthly subscription, so it doesn't work for many casual users. Their filters sometimes don't cut out all undesired content (ex: Saints and Soldiers left several profanities in...which wasn't what I had expected). If your standards differ from theirs, you're out of luck. -Others have noted that sometimes their edit timings (or perhaps DVD players) -are slightly mismatched so that it will end up muting sections just previous to profanity, while -not muting the profanity itself, or so I've heard. Clearplay apparently also runs a rather +Clearplay apparently also runs a rather confusing subscription policy, or so I'm told [1], and their DVD players that are a bit weak at times [2]. Their DVD players aren't quite as readily accessible (read: -can't buy at walmart), nor as cheap to buy as some others. +can't buy them at walmart), nor as cheap to buy as some others. Clearplay also has little community collaboration/review (though you can email them feedback). They also did't have filters for all movies that I, at times, wanted to watch edited (Condorman and Tron lacking last time I checked...probably because they are too obscure.) If there isn't one, you basically have to request one and then *hope* they get around to it. Until then, you are out of luck. @@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ off a movie file, and piece them together to create an edited clean version ( a la cleanflix ). This also avoids realtime tracking, so I also included this ability. The playlist option is disabled in later releases, as it was deemed too user-non-friendly, and because VLC timing is "different" than standard DVD players, so I decided to just use standardized timing, though it worked fine for VLC playbacks. -I replaced it with support for mplayer's EDL format +I replaced it with support for mplayer's EDL format, which works better, and has consistent timing, though is still a bit buggy. You can see a full list of other features that have been published and demonstrated in the accompanying file change_log_with_feature_list.txt. Each feature mentioned works in some released version of sensible-cinema though some features have been removed in subsequent versions (they're all available as rubygems). @@ -204,10 +204,11 @@ http://imdb.com tends to have reasonably good lists of what occurs in movies (find a movie, click on "parent's guide" on the left). Sometimes it even lists the time signatures for events (ex: "Labyrinth" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/parentalguide) which you could use to translate into a sensible-cinema compatible list. Normal DVD's versus "directors cut" versions of movies (one is at times preferable, content wise) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list (it's a linear editing tool, after all--so see the vast list of those) Clean Flicks (used to) sell edited movies http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm lets you "cut out" offensive content (commercials et al) and burn DVD's from mpeg's/h264 streams +http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/device_control.aspx Windows Media Encoder supports EDL's by timestamp http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html http://www.sharewareconnection.com/fast-compress-content-and-anti-profanity.htm replaces profanity in web pages with euphemized content. http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/06/make_your_own_phantom_edit_wit.html (mplayer has had this ability for awhile, with no complaints). http://clearplay.com a commercial "filtering" DVD player See the "motivation" section for a description. It does offer a few features that sensible cinema supports but disables, for patent reasons, like automatic (user flexible) content decisions. Ours are manual, etc. @@ -221,19 +222,21 @@ DVD's themselves allow for "scripted" playback of certain content, allowing controls for jumping from location to location, switching audio/video tracks, etc. http://code.google.com/p/movie-content-editor (player written in Python, controls VLC based on subtitles and user-input, using edit decision lists in realtime) http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?10606-Automated-Cutting-and-Transcoding-Guide-Using-Mencoder/page45 http://www.imdb.com/swiki/special?ParentalGuideHelp (search for "scene description") http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials +showanalyzer http://www.dragonglobal.biz/showanalyzer.html and comskip analyze videos to look for "segments to cut out" automatically (commercials, in this case, but the principle still applies) Old-school: using the remote control with the pause, mute, stop, fast forward, and play buttons, along with previous knowledge of "questionable" scene locations The scissors and old VHS tapes (Clean Flicks' origin, if I remember correctly). http://www.familysafemedia.com/home_movie_editor.html (was a helper kit for cutting VHS tape) Windows Movie Maker. Allows for users to cut and copy scenes of movies. Really any editor can do this. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56998 VLC Media Player using EDL's via playlists Corel WinDVD has "Quick Clip" settings for capturing from DVD. Microsoft's built-in magnifier basically copies DVD's screen output if mouse is placed over playing DVD. http://superuser.com/questions/85278/how-can-i-cut-scenes-out-of-a-dvd http://blog.josephhall.com/2008/09/command-line-dvd-authoring-part-1.html AviSynth can script dvd playback http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-109558.html +ps3 media server has edl support: https://github.com/chocolateboy/PMS-EDL maybe would work with DVD's dunno Anydvd HD's "magic file replacement" for DVD's/blu-ray's RiffTrax allows for an audio "overlay" to a DVD playback, have their own player to coordinate the two. == License == @@ -244,45 +247,41 @@ EDL files themselves are released under the Creative Commons License, however. See first also the file "is_it_legal_to_copy_dvds.txt" for more information on legal use in your country. == Troubleshooting == -If you run into some snag, it possibly could have failed in "grabbing" the DVD, and only got part of it. -Try cleaning your DVD and starting over (delete all files, start again). +If you run into some snag, try cleaning your DVD and starting over (delete all files, start again). Baking soda toothpaste might help with cleaning it. If it still errs, report it, along with a screen snapshot and steps of how to reproduce the problem, preferably. See the feedback section. It can fail also because a deletion is past end of DVD, or -Also note that if your DVD has scratches that cause it to skip, the time signatures will be off after that point, -so clean your discs and try again! -"DVDNAV stream read error!" - this typically means a dirty or scratched DVD. - Also make sure you aren't out of disk space. -Try playback in VLC Media Player. +Try playback in "VLC Media Player" -Also you could try another computer (desktop computers' DVD drives seem to work better at times than laptops') - You try to play back a sensible cinema-ized video file and it plays back without audio or video (example: windows media player)? This probably means you're using windows media player, and don't have "codecs" installed to handle this type of audio. Not to fear, just download the "ffdshow tryouts" (google for it) and, when it gives you the option, be sure to check "mpeg2 video" and then it should "just work." You could also optionally just play the file in VLC Media Player or smplayer - (there's a button for that). Installing "AC3Filter" may help if you have no audio. + (there's a button for that). Installing "AC3Filter" may help if you can hear no audio. + Really VLC Media Player is your best bet though. If the end result picture is too grainy/pixelated or if the overall process is too slow, let me know and I'll work on making it better. No really, I have some ideas, but want to see if there's need first for improvement in those areas. +Finally, report back! If there are problems that arise, I want to hear about them so we can help you through it. + == Thanks == Thanks to Jarmo for the win32-screenshot gem, the mini_magick gem authors, jruby guys, etc. The combination of these tools made programming this actually something of a pleasure, and a breeze cross platform. -Sensible Cinema leverages code from lots of other projects (see LICENSE.TXT)--many thanks to the authors and maintainers of said libraries, and anybody else I forgot to mention. +Sensible Cinema leverages code from lots of other projects (see LICENSE.TXT)--many thanks to +the authors and maintainers of said libraries, and anybody else I forgot to mention. == Feedback/Development == Feedback, including feature requests, comments, etc. welcome: