Auto-skip TV Show Intro

General Discussions
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Battlestar Galactica… Alias…

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Would love to see something like this.

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@niaxilin said:
Battlestar Galactica… Alias…

Thanks. Bsg was hard to cover. It wasn’t always the same intro song:(

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@twilsonco said:
That’s fantastic. Do you think it’s feasible to identify the theme start/end times without having to download the themes from plex, thereby opening your tool to skip end credits as well?

There are 3 souces for themes the program can use atm. YouTube, television tunes and plex own themes. I found a way to identify credits as well (looking credits text in the frames/image) my project does not use this code atm but it works on the tests that I have written.

Let me know if you find any bugs.

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Some mkv files have chapters that are named like INTRO / OPENING / ENDING maybe plex can use these chapter markers to show a “SKIP INTRO” button.

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Just curious, but is there a way to implement intro skip with manual time inputs?
For those of us willing to put in the start and finish time of the intro manually.
Just another idea.

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As stated in the OP, some collaboration with theTvdb would enable the crowdsourcing of all such time stamps. I like the idea of an automated solution because I’m a hopeless nerd, and an automated method would provide a huge starting set of time stamps, but if they could add those metadata fields then people would just start populating them as the community became aware.
At that point Plex, Emby and the like can add whatever intro/outro features they want.

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Hey guys,

I started using Plex a few days ago and figured it could use skip intro functionality. Unsure if it existed I googled and came across this forum post. I actually wrote code a while ago for a graduation internship that does such a job based on frame fingerprinting:

It’s not perfect and some shows have hard edge cases but when the show is very well structured: recap -> same visual intro -> content -> same outro, then it works 99% of the time on the shows I tested it on.

Maybe this could be of use realizing this functionality?

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Thanks! that’s really cool. I would love to include this this in bw_plex.

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Awesome! Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way