A playback program for DVDs and CDs enables a user to customize the
playback of the disk. Regions that are independent of prerecorded tracks
are created and/or played back based on the content of the disk, e.g.,
visual content or audio content, in those regions. Thus, for instance,
certain scenes or certain dialogue of the disk can be skipped over during
playback because an attribute to skip or otherwise modify the output was
assigned to a particular region during creation of the program. Several
start-up modes can be programmed during creation of the program to
indicate whether the disk will initially skip to the first region whose
output is modified or playback normally until a region with an modified
output is encountered. A password may be required to access the playback
program.
