Are there local audio/video players that use NewPipe's Silence Skipping feature?

[Night3890]

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Hello,

The Internet is not great were I live so I often download videos locally to play them later. I'm a big fan of the "fast-forward during silence" feature on NewPipe and want to know if there are any apps that can play local audio / video files on my android phone phone and skip silence? I think it's an ExoPlayer feature you're using here, but thus far I have not found an application that can do this for local audio/video files.

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[p1nkl0bst3r]

I think this is what you are looking for https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.brouken.player/, when playing a video hold the cog, there is a option for skipping silence there.

[Night3890]

@p1nkl0bst3r thanks for your reply.

I downloaded v 0.123 of this from FDroid, but the cog only shows options for adjusting playback speed and sound. The app also doesn't support my audio files. I will reach out to their developers since three app's README says they support audio only as well, however I did not see them mention Silence skipping (except for this GH issue).

• Am I correct that NewPipe uses ExoPlayer to implement this feature in their app? If not, how is this implemented?
• Is this the only app you're aware of that has silence skipping?

[p1nkl0bst3r]

I downloaded v 0.123 of this from FDroid, but the cog only shows options for adjusting playback speed and sound. The app also doesn't support my audio files. I will reach out to their developers since three app's README says they support audio only as well, however I did not see them mention Silence skipping (except for this GH issue).

Long press the cog to get to the skip silence setting.
It indeed does not work with audio only moneytoo/Player#55

• Am I correct that NewPipe uses ExoPlayer to implement this feature in their app? If not, how is this implemented?

You are correct NewPipe does rely on exoplayer for this feature #1392

• Is this the only app you're aware of that has silence skipping?

For audiobooks (and other audio files) i use https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/ which also has an option for skipping silence.

[Night3890]

@p1nkl0bst3r thanks for the info!

Long press the cog to get to the skip silence setting.

Oh you're right 👍. I must not have pressed long enough at first.

For audiobooks (and other audio files) i use https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/ which also has an option for skipping silence.

Thank you for the recommendation. I will look into this app.

• Is anybody working on an app that covers both filetypes in one app and/or video playback with the screen off? NewPipe is able to transition fairly seemlessly between screen on and screen off playback and I'd like to manage that for local files.

• It looks like these satisfy my needs on mobile. Are there apps for desktop that skip silence?