It appears Plex already “sees” the chapter name when chapters are accessed for manual selection. How about adding some automation to chapter selection by allowing configuration of chapter skipping based on a search string match in a chapter name. Some recording programs name their chapters and indicate “Advertisement” chapters. This would be a generic way of auto-skipping chapters that is not tied to any program outside of Plex.
I’m not sure I understand your suggestion…
Do you want an option to type in a search term when displaying the chapter selection and then jump to that (instead of swiping/clicking through the chapters)?
I don’t really understand how the auto-skipping should work with that… seems rather unintuitive to me (but I might be missing something).
I take it you’re aware of the built-in ad-detection and skipping of Plex’ DVR?
Edit: or do you want to give Plex a list of chapter names you want it to auto-skip?!
I would like a to be able to configure a search string that Plex uses to autoskip chapters based on a match in the chapter name. Plex offers a manual option for skipping chapters now and chapters are given names by many recording programs, so it would add some automation to the manual process.
Plex DVR skips commercial chapters but video chapters recorded by some other means are not skipped even though they often have chapter markings and chapter names.
