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We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. (feddit.org)
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Just think about the amount of time the average human being could save in one year.

There is a shitload of unnecessary scenes that could be cut without losing anything of value.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Old, but still mostly relevant:

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 months ago

Jellyfin is adding a new MediaSegments API/plugin, which should allow any arbitrary segment of any piece of media to be skipped on (eventually) all Jellyfin clients.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Probably too small of an audience but I'm amazed that someone hasn't released a podcast app that has sponsorblock. Podcast ads are so predictable I'd imagine an ML model would have no issue detecting them.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem from what I've read is most ads are inserted on demand in the stream when you first play/download a podcast and there's no easy way for software to tell them apart, not to mention they're usually location based which means the ads you get are likely different from what I get, and depending where you live you might not even get ads at all.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I use antenna pod which is able to download as well, which seems to suggest that at some point the ads get fixed. Also they're very consistent for me, enough that I can usually cut off the first 30 seconds of ads for certain podcasts (there's a function to skip predefined sections).

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Or even if it was only reported manually via humans, it would still be worth it to give them the option, and on more popular podcasts it could help lots of people. In the meantime, I just listen to the YouTube video version of the podcasts, which usually have sponsorblock.

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

For YouTube content I really like the Tubular app on Android. It has Sponsorblock built-in, which you mentioned, but it also has an option to skip silence.

I find it particularly nice for gaming content, or any point where the YouTuber is reading text aloud.

I must have skipped hundreds of hours of pointless silence by this point

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

But then you lose the best fight in Deadpool and Wolverine because it's a Honda Odyssey commercial.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

We need a movie, TV series and porn block.

Just think about the amount of time the average human being could save in one year.