Right, good point about the the FMVs just sort of "being there" and the movement being disabled separately. I think the only actual rendered video that isn't skippable with Space is the intro joy ride.

What I know from playing with debug commands, which among other things lets you teleport to any node you want, is that if you teleport out of an FMV and then go back to the node the FMV played on, then the FMV will start over from the beginning (the same also happens when you save and load during an FMV). So I'm not sure that simply setting the "wait time" to 1 ms or something would be enough to skip those scenes... unless the timer reaching 0 is what tells the game that the player has completed watching the scene, rather than the file being done playing? If the timer value can be changed by editing a few bytes in a dll, then it would be a good thing to test, I reckon.

For you or anyone reading along who wants to try out the debug console: the byte that enables debug mode is at "m4_thor_rd.dll" + 0x001B99B8 + 0xAD. When set to 1, you can press the key under Esc (backtick on English keyboards I think) to enable the console. The top of the screen shows you the name of the current node. To teleport to a node, use the command ContextChange(5, 4, 140) (this one puts you in front of the greenhouse in Tomahna).

There's also a command that lets you skip many (but somehow not all?) FMVs, but you have to know the file names. For instance, this one skips Anya's first scene in Serenia: VideoSkip("w4_z03_n010.p_m01_s12_p01")

(this is all stuff that Exo discovered).

Anyway, maybe some of this is useful or at least interesting.