[Santosh83]

Anyone know of a tool which can process videos (movies) and black/blur out nude scenes and make the film "family friendly"? The processing doesn't have to be realtime...

Just to expand: there are many excellent films which are not "family friendly" only because of 1 or 2 nude scenes which aren't even germane to the overall plot in many cases. I often wished there was a tool or SaaS that could detect such scenes and cut or blur them out. Would save a lot of manual processing.

[jasonlfunk]

There is a company that was trying to work in this space called VidAngel. https://www.vidangel.com/ I used to use them quite a lot and then they got sued by everyone and now I’m not sure what they are up too. It’s unclear if a company has the right to offer others content in a modified form - ie filtering out unacceptable content.

My favorite thing is that they had a JarJar filter for the Star Wars prequels.

[sircastor]

They do on the fly skipping in streaming services. Rather than reselling modified content, they’re skipping time codes.

[jasonlfunk]

This must have been their pivot after getting sued. They used to rent filtered movies for $1.

[umvi]

Yeah, VidAngel is pretty much non-usable now because of the lawsuit(s)

[petespeed]

For non-stream media (iso,dvds), skip files can work. These files allow you to define frames or seconds to skip or mute. For example mplayer has edl (edit decision list). http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html

Crowdsourcing such metadata would be a good start, although it can be subjective.

If you find out a better way for streaming media, please share.

[simion314]

Wouldn't make sense to remove the entire scene? Doing the Japanese style pixalation/censorship won't help IMO when you watch some movie with your kid and people start moaning. If the movie includes sex and nudity it probably includes some similar adult language so a tool that works in real time that only is trained on porn will be probably terrible and a waste of time though some "entrepreneur" would probably try to sell you such a tool (I mean it is just gluing shit togheter like most tools this days)

[louisgeo]

SaaS tool that does that: https://sightengine.com

Will flag sections of the video with explicit / suggestive / partial nudity

[tyingq]

CleanFlix[1] did something like that, but was shut down by movie studios.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks

Vid Angel took a different approach, allowing you to fast forward over parts, and appears to still be operating: https://www.vidangel.com/

[ThinkBeat]

There is or used to be a start that addressed this market.

They had an ever expanding catalog of films they had processed to avoid any nudity or bad language. I think they cut those parts out entirety.

Here I found it.

They got sued out of existence apparently by the movies studios but was recreated and they now somehow do it with streaming content from Netflix or HBO.

I dont know how they do that but I figure they will be sued again.

I am not endorsing the company. I have never used it and never will but it is out there.

https://www.vidangel.com/

[BagPiper5000]

I'm going to be a little hypocritical here since I hate when I ask for help on the internet and people tell me instead to not want to do that thing... but:

Surely a much easier thing to do would be to simply stop being offended by the human body? Just watch the movies anyway. Your kids won't explode if they see a boob.

This reminds me of when I went thru all different low calorie sweeteners to put in coffee until I realized this is a problem I created myself and coffee is actually better if I just get used to having it plain.

[umvi]

You could use ffmpeg to delete the scenes containing violence/sex, but you'll have to manually find the timestamps yourself.

[sneak]

Chopping out scenes with swearing and sex and violence won’t make an adult story suitable for children.

There’s a whole genre of family friendly films, those will serve you better than trying to hack up stories for full adults.

[monadic2]

Or even better, ads! Just show a nice landscape instead.

[speedgoose]

Is there a need? I feel like if you are old enough to watch a movie for adults, you are more than old enough to know about sex. But anyway, when was the last time you saw an erect penis in a movie you wanted to watch in a family setting?

[mkoubaa]

If people want to use it then there is a need. You can't just tell people to stop having sensibilities