It would be great to have a feature to skip endings similar to the new skip intros feature. This would make it a lot easier to skip to either the next episode, or an after credits scene that can show up. I don’t think it would be too hard to implement compared to the skip intros feature and it shouldn’t clash with scenes which have credits on top and actual content in the background.
If you bring up the player control bar, there is a ‘skip to next up’ button on it.
Yeah, but that doesn’t take care of the case where there’s an after credits scene.
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- The reason why their is an after credits scene is to have people watch the credits. This is for all the people that put so much hard work into the movie.
- Use video previews and locate the end.
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- Some shows also have credits in the intro, and no one cares.
- How so?
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I was just about to post the same feature request myself!
A lot of anime has an extra scene after the credits, and sometimes the begining of the next episode doesn’t make sense unless you watch it. Plus, just about every Marvel movie…
Skipping forward is tedious, especially now there’s the potential to do it in one button press.
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It seems like there are VERY few TV shows with scenes after the end credits and to ask developers to spend their time and resources on this would be a waste.
There’s already a way to fast forward and use the thumbnails to quickly identify where the post credit scene starts. It’s not as fast as a single click, but there are other features that the developers could work on that would have a MUCH larger benefit to Plex users.
Also, I’m not sure how much additional metadata space this would take up on everyone’s servers for this very limited benefit. A lot of folks are already of the opinion that metadata takes up too much space.
To the first point, shows where there are always scenes after the end credits are rare, but with spontaneous scenes in some episodes is more frequent. Also I would imagine they would just need to apply the algorithm they already created, but to the end of the episodes.
To the second point, idk if that’s a platform exclusive feature, but on Android TV I don’t have thumbnail preview when fast forwarding. I might have not noticed an option, though.
To the final point, if I’m not mistaken, even the skip intro feature was opt-in. If so, people who don’t want the feature wouldn’t get additional metadata.
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I do watch anime as well, OP and ED are roughly 1:30 for every single anime, except for cases where they overlay credits usually on the last episode.
As for the skip ending, it would be easier to allow for users to set a custom time step rather than the default step forward 30s or back 10s.
While it might be true for TV shows, it is quite common for animes. The heavy lifting is already done, the same method that is used for intro detection can be applied for outro detection as well. As for additional metadata, it is just two timestamps so not really much storage. Also this could be an opt-in feature as well. With regards to the just skip forward argument, at least on the devices I watch there is only +30 and -10 steps, and that never matches up with the duration of the intro or outro, once you experience the joy of simply being able to perfectly skip the intro you are sorely missing to for the outro. Furthermore, in recent builds plex fails to rewind properly and the playback just stops, further aggrevating that issue.
On a side note, the feature that you are mentioning with the video preview takes up a huge amount of space, and it only works on a device with a mouse with any precision.
El_Rocha and Stephanos, made similar points.
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Before I respond I’ll say that any option that the developers make available takes time away from others, so they should prioritize with what will help the largest number of their customers. So the only thing I have against this being done is that it would benefit a small percentage and there’s so many more requests that have been made long ago and voted on with way more votes.
While it might be true for TV shows, it is quite common for animes. The heavy lifting is already done, the same method that is used for intro detection can be applied for outro detection as well.
Maybe. I’ll take your word for it since I’ve never seen an anime. As I understand it for the same method to be used all the end credits would need to have the same music leading up to the end credits scene, or else the software will just see it as different and not know where to place the timestamp.
As for additional metadata, it is just two timestamps so not really much storage. Also this could be an opt-in feature as well.
Maybe. If what you say is true then yes, the additional metadata is insignificant.
With regards to the just skip forward argument, at least on the devices I watch there is only +30 and -10 steps, and that never matches up with the duration of the intro or outro, once you experience the joy of simply being able to perfectly skip the intro you are sorely missing to for the outro. Furthermore, in recent builds plex fails to rewind properly and the playback just stops, further aggrevating that issue.
I’ve only used Plex on a Roku and the right arrow button seems to skip a few seconds at a time, or you can hold it down and zoom through credits as you watch for a scene. So at least with Roku it’s not difficult at all. I think having the developer’s time spent making other clients behave in a similar way would be better time spent.
On a side note, the feature that you are mentioning with the video preview takes up a huge amount of space, and it only works on a device with a mouse with any precision.
Depends on what you call huge, but it’s just the thumbnail previews. And as I said above, it works great on the Roku, so it’s not only the devices with a mouse that can use it to skip the end credits easily.
I’d like to +1 this idea.
I get the objection that lots of people work on these shows, but the same could be said of all of the streaming services who have been doing this for a while now: Disney+ skips ahead without showing all of the credits. Netflix shows other previews while you’re seeing the credits in films. Amazon Prime brings up a thumbnail of the next episode giving you the option to skip ahead.
The streamers seem nonplussed about making the credits fully shown, so I don’t see why Plex needs to be held to a different standard.
As to the practical aspects, I’m not familiar enough, but I assume it should be relatively straightforward, compared to intro sequences. I find that for shows like Last Week Tonight or American Dad! it gives me the option to skip the whole intros, even past the bits that change episode by episode, so the differences between credits should be even more trivial to pass over.
It would be great, though, if this could account for episodes and film that have post-credits sequences, like Westworld or the MCU or most Disney Animations.
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It probably couldn’t be used for films, since it uses several episodes to put together what the intro and outro look like.
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It works by listening for “significantly similar” audio. The video can be completely different. It’s a clever technique - easier than video analysis, and immune to changes in aspect ratio or logos or overlays. And different video gags. 
I’m a massive fan of the preview thumbnails.
You can make them 2/3 smaller with almost no reduction in utility, if that’s a serious practical consideration.
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For films, there are many (maybe even most?) that are imported with chapter metadata, so when you get to a “credits” chapter, it could just scrape that up, serving up a “skip credits” button?
Also, for credits, the you could just find the points at which the film becomes very similar throughout in the outer corners. While not all films have a black background and white text for credits (although a huge percentage do), just as detecting significant similarities serves to identify introductions, there’s some rational ways to detect consistencies that would apply to a good 95% of films. It needn’t be aiming for 100% of films, just a significant enough amount that would justify developing and deploying a feature like this.
Also +1 to be able to skip credit on anime for ex. and see if there’s an extra scene after the credits.
I usually try to fast forward 3x30s (1:30mn) but sometimes it doesn’t work and Plex simply mark the ep as read or skip to the next ep… without letting me see the extra scene and I have to replay the ep again (fast forwarding of course) to see the extra scene.
Skip Intro is already there and rather great!
Skip Outro should work quite the same and share a lot of code so I don’t expect it to be a lot of work… so please, pretty please!
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Since most endings are 1:20 and not 1:30 if there is a short extra scene and you have to rewind, I often run into another Plex issue that hasn’t been fixed for years.
i would absolutely love this. just putting a thumbnail or description on the screen as the credits roll, maybe a timer like on netflix would be heaven. it makes binge watching easier, and if you’ve watched the mandalorian or wandavision you know that credits can go to like 5 minutes. why? because they know that you can skip them if you want.
please implement this!
This would be a great feature! It would be awesome too that the button says “Skip Credits” if it detects that the end of the credits is not the end of the video (detects that there is an after credits scene and forwards to it) and says “Next Episode” if there is no after credits scene and skips to the next episode.
Also this could be used for detecting that the user finished watching the episode when the credits appear. Sometimes I have the problem that I skip to the next episode manually when the credits start and Plex doesn’t show the episode as “Played”, but shows it like I haven’t finished watching it.
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