Don't know about that level of editing, but if you just want to watch a DVD without having to put it in the player before dinner so that by after dinner all the promos and ads will have made it past, then mplayer from rpmfusion plus libdvdcss from livna is what you need. Mplayer can be instructed to utterly ignore the bilge and go directly to playing the actual movie :-).

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:44 -0800 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Well, you have to have zillions of support libs installed, but if you have all the junk like libdvdcss and libdvdnav and just about anything else with "dvd" in the name from rpmfusion, then something like this works for me: mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -ao alsa:device=hw=1.0 -ac hwdts,hwac3, -monitoraspect 16:9 -fs That tells it to go directly to title 1 (which is usually the main movie, you might have to adjust this for some DVDs) and play that and the english soundtrack (if it is marked properly - also spotty with some DVDs). It also sends the already encoded soundtrack directly from the DVD to the digital output on my soundcard (which goes to my sound system). There are all sorts of other nifty mplayer tricks out there, like a filter to observe the black bands on a letterbox DVD and tell you what cropping and scaling filters to use to blow it up to fill the screen :-).

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:22:26 -0700, Kevin Kempter <kevink(a)consistentstate.com&gt; wrote: I think companies are allowed to do this now. The latest release from the EFF I could find about it suggests says that a law was passed to specifically make it clear that Clearplay could provide a way to do that. There are still ongoing DMCA abuses making it harder. You might find the following useful or interesting reading: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/child-safe-viewing-a

I'm actually looking for a way to rip out some of the hollywood sex scenes that usually exist for no other reason than take a great family movie and make it no longer a family movie. I'd love it if I could then go a step further and bleep or otherwise get rid of all the F*** bombs and other language that destroys an otherwise great movie as well