EDL

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The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL configuration file.

This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly" mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.

The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. There is one command per line that indicates what to do (skip/mute) and when to do it (using pts in seconds).

EDL file format

The current EDL file format is:

[begin second] [end second] [action]

Where the seconds are floating-point numbers and the action is either 0 for skip or 1 for mute. Example:

5.3   7.1    0
15    16.7   1
420   422    0

This will skip from second 5.3 to second 7.1 of the video, then mute at 15 seconds, unmute at 16.7 seconds and skip from second 420 to second 422 of the video. These actions will be performed when the playback timer reaches the times given in the file.

How to specify EDL file in MediaCoder

EDL file can be used only when MPlayer or MEncoder is used as video source, or MEncoder is used as video encoder with video source set to Default (so that MEncoder is invoked as a standalone encoder). To specify the EDL file to use, simply put the file name at Settings -> Video Source -> MPlayer/MEncoder -> EDL File. Please note that this option is only available since MediaCoder 0.6.0.3980.