Foul Language Content Filter Options

[thelovesmedia_gmail_com]

Plex forgive me and redirect me as I am new to the forums.

I have searched generally for Foul Language Content Filter Options and cannot find anything particular to my request.

I am curious if it is possible to filter foul language from my personal media streamed through the PlexMediaServer. This can fall under v-chip technologies and similar to FamilySafeMedia.com’s TVGuardian. In short the latter’s technology scans the media’s subtitles for words and phrases in your filter list you might find objectionable and in real-time mutes the audio at each timestamp of those displayed words or phrases.

This is purely a personal custom user experience and not meant to be an overall and overreaching violation of any free speech.

This can be used to watch media when younger kids are in the house and you do not want your younger kids to hears certain words or phrases.

I understand that Plex no longer allows plugins, but am curious if there is a way to run something concurrently with the PlexMediaServer that can utilize the same subtitle file and mute the PC server’s audio streamed out in realtime, therefore effectively muting the PlexMediaServer audio during playback.

Thank you in advance for any direction.

[tom80H]

Plex doesn’t have such a feature. However there’s two related feature suggestion for which you can vote.

Profanity Filter

I was wondering if there will ever be an option to filter profanity and scenes for instance integrate a service such as “ClearPlay” where the file is downloaded and it will automatically cut the audio and/or video as necessary based on your settings? This would be a most useful feature for those with children, and religious families to enjoy digital content without the language or scenes with nudity or excessive violence.

Live Censor Videos During Playback / CleanFlix / VidAngel

Now… If I were you, this could be a fairly large income maker for you. At least to get plex pass subscriptions. I’d be willing to help with the development if I had access to the python source. Long story short, it would be excellent if users could “define” parts of a movie to blip out the sound or skip the video. Similar to what VidAngel did, or cleanflix did in the past. Heck, you could even team up with them to get a large enough database of that data. But imagine, an extra subscription to …

Keep in mind that there’s no guarantee those are being implemented or when that’s going to happen.

[thelovesmedia_gmail_com]

I think what I might do to get around this in the meantime is to demux the audio tracks and subtitles from a video file and run a script against a library of words and phrases that would create mute points in the tracks at particular timestamps, save the audio tracks as censored versions, and mux them back into the video file as additional/optional audio tracks for me to choose from.

[tramp78]

The amount time and money for development of a feature like this is probably not worth it considering that the best way to keep kids from hearing stuff you don’t like is don’t play it for them. It’s your server, your choice.