Automatically skip specific subtitle

[gurman]

Is there an elegant and automated way to skip the duration of video for which a specific subtitle is visible? Like if the video show "opening song" from 00:05 to 00:10 then the player would skip those 5 seconds?

Also the subtitles are embedded in the (matroska) video file.
One way I can think is that I can extract the subtitles using ffmpeg, get the duration for the subtitle, and then write it into a potplayer .pbf file with the same name as the video file. Potplayer would be configured to skip that chapter and therefore that part will be skipped. But this method is very long winded and janky.

So i wanted to ask if you guys could think of a better way/workflow to achieve this

[Selur]

First thing that popped into my mind were edl list, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list
But the main idea would be the same:
1. extract subtitle
2. create edl list with it
3. play media file alongside edl file

[gurman]

Yeah, I had hoped for a simpler solution, but oh well! Thanks though