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 get movies edited. Users can specify editing per movie if they’re an admin, or a global setting. Your partnership with those companies allows you to get all the editing, you just provide the service.
The biggest issue will be matching the very beginning of the movies so the timing is the same. But still. I’d pay for that service beyond my plex pass, and I would love to assist in this effort.
@adamstewiegreen said:
Vidangel is currently being sued by Disney, so I bet Plex doesn’t want to touch this with a 10 foot pole.
But that’s it, they wouldn’t. They’re being sued for STREAMING the content. This would be isolated to the user’s personal environment. Well within legal rights.
I am highly in favor of this idea. I’d love to be able to toggle options for a show to censor out by rating per scene or even by topic on a show-by-show or movie-by-movie basis without having to splice the original videos. As a dynamic option, this preserves the original, makes management simple, and provides a significant premium service worth paying for if you want to enjoy a show that has a small amount of content not suitable for the entire audience. It’s clearly about making choices most appropriate to the situation and empowering the users with better options. It’s a complete win in my book, especially because it preserves the integrity of the original work.
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 should cover this use-case because streaming isn’t part of the equation. (Instead, it is strictly private performance by each user within his own home of a work he or she allegedly owns the rights to view by uncontested means.)
@“don.alcombright” If you’re not into censoring, per se, you could see some benefit by “alternate splicing” of the film. You could cut out scenes you are annoyed by or skip straight to the scenes you want to see. You could even potentially re-cut the film as you see fit if you find the order unpleasant for your viewing preferences. It has added benefit to enable a generic mechanism for re-cutting a film as the end-user might envision.
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.
