[bb88]

So this is likely beyond the scope of your project, but I've always thought a really good project would be a website to host scene indexes for movies and TV.

Eg. Let's say that you wanted to watch a prerecorded football game or baseball game without all the commercials, timeouts, commentators talking about the fans, etc.

Or... Let's say that you wanted to re-cut a movie in a certain way, by re-ordering the scenes, you could just generate a new scene data file and let the encoder/player use that.

[Breakthrough]

This is still relevant I think :) What you mentioned is very similar to an edit decision list (EDL [1]), of which I only learned recently. I had a feature request [2] to support EDL as an ouptut format, and upon further investigation, it seems like the format is very similar to what you're talking about. The Wikipedia page also indicates that VLC supports xspf files, but I haven't done much research into that yet ("XML Shareable Playlist Format").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list

[2] https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/issues/101