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I have often wanted something like this for the 1+ hour historical shows on the likes of PBS and The History Channel. I've found that the shows repeat a lot of

I have often wanted something like this for the 1+ hour historical shows on the likes of PBS and The History Channel. I've found that the shows repeat a lot of things before and after commercial breaks that I don't need to hear again. I enjoy the topics, but my impatience combined with the editing drives me away from watching the shows. I think the main hurdle would be actually doing the editing because of how time consuming it is. Perhaps the edit lists could be sold, and the after market editors could get paid. I wouldn't want to get into the mess of distributing copyrighted content, so I was thinking of using the seek mechanism built into video players. A user would load original content and the edit list, and the player would handle seeking correctly. In the naive implementation of this scenario, time would have to be very well synchronized between source materials. I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be. While writing this comment, the possibility of using image and sound recognition floated into my consciousness. Perhaps there would be a way to tag the images and sounds around cuts, to make them work even if time were off (e.g. commercial break ran longer in one time zone than another). If you build it, I don't want my cut; I just want to know about it!

marco1 11y ago
Thanks, this is definitely something that would be possible. > I think the main hurdle would be actually doing the editing because of how time consuming it is. Perhaps the edit lists could be sold, and the after market editors could get paid. That's exactly what was envisaged. This is just an open format. There could be (commercial) platforms or markets that offer complete filter lists. You don't have to do it yourself. Even more than that, you shouldn't do everything yourself. This can be a community effort, where you contribute only small parts. > I wouldn't want to get into the mess of distributing copyrighted content, so I was thinking of using the seek mechanism built into video players. This is what this project is about. You don't have to distribute source material. You have to distribute the filter lists only. The format can be "transpiled" to popular playlist formats that make use of the seek mechanisms. > In the naive implementation of this scenario, time would have to be very well synchronized between source materials. This is built-in. You may take a look at the converter/transpiler tool.

marco1 11y ago

Thanks, this is definitely something that would be possible. > I think the main hurdle would be actually doing the editing because of how time consuming it is. Perhaps the edit lists could be sold, and the after market editors could get paid. That's exactly what was envisaged. This is just an open format. There could be (commercial) platforms or markets that offer complete filter lists. You don't have to do it yourself. Even more than that, you shouldn't do everything yourself. This can be a community effort, where you contribute only small parts. > I wouldn't want to get into the mess of distributing copyrighted content, so I was thinking of using the seek mechanism built into video players. This is what this project is about. You don't have to distribute source material. You have to distribute the filter lists only. The format can be "transpiled" to popular playlist formats that make use of the seek mechanisms. > In the naive implementation of this scenario, time would have to be very well synchronized between source materials. This is built-in. You may take a look at the converter/transpiler tool.