It seems to work fine. But I have to select every episode in a season and press analyse to get it to work, I can’t select te season and then press analyse.
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Your server is working its way through all seasons and episodes during the nightly server maintenance anyway.
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I can not fault this release with my use case, it at times can be a bit delayed but well accepted considering the benefits.
I have now run through the credits recognition (1500 films and 15000 series episodes). For 2 days the server has not carried out any credits recognition. But suddenly the credits recognition is running again. After this was completed again, I completely restarted the server. The credits recognition started again. The same files are scanned over and over again, obviously these are elements where the credits recognition was not successful. I have activated the diagnostics mode, but there, as in the description, only errors are documented where you have analyzed them separately. In order to find all the errors, I would have to have them analyzed 16,500 times manually in my case. I think that this is not intended, that the detection starts again and again for objects where nothing has been detected before.
I don’t have a lot of anime but it does detect intros. Had a bit of an issue with Bleach because my episodes just kept increasing in number in the same season so when the intro music changed that wasn’t detected. I ended up changing the episode ordering based on what I found on TheTVDB the episodes could be arranged in seasons.
I had the issue with a couple of other shows (not anime) and the common thing about them is that they had a ton of episodes and the intro music changed along the way. The moment the new music begins intros aren’t detected and you’d have to select the episodes with the new intros together and then go to the context menu and “Analyze” for those new intros to be picked.
Likewise. At first I thought it would be an experimental feature that I have to enable but I’m not prepared at this point to install a new version of PMS and setup a test server. So I’ll wait for it to come to the main build
That is very interesting - so just to confirm - do you actually have intro detection working for a show, that has multiple intros for a season? Do you just have to re-analysis those specific episodes?
Because if it’s that simple - plex could add an advanced feature that can be toggled on/off - that way plex knows to scan for additional intros for specific series.
Either that - or allow us to flag an episode as having a new intro - so it can be analyzed and used in future checks…
I suspect that it it then only recognizes the new intro but I’ve never gone back to the earlier episodes to check. Before changing the episode ordering and arranging it into season folders I had stopped re-analyzing. At that point I was just skipping forward by 30 seconds a couple of times.
For shows with daily episodes and the same intro throughout it seems to stop detecting it as well at some point. Or at least it’s hit and miss once the episodes rack up. Since the beginning of December I haven’t watched the only show with daily episodes that I keep around. For everything else with too many episodes I have it set to delete the episodes after I watch them so there aren’t that many around at any given time. A lot of the time when watching the newer episodes once I noticed the Skip intro button wasn’t showing up, I’d stop playback on my Xbox, and on my laptop rescan that episode and when I play the button shows up as expected. And for that show I’ve gone back to earlier episodes from time to time and it would offer to skip the intro; but this one has the same intro throughout.
I forgot to mention in my other reply that for one of the episodes that I was having this issue with, the intro changes for the last episode in the season so it isn’t picked up. The new intro is used during the next season and it works until the season finale. I’ve just accepted my fate with that one.
[Edit was to fix some grammar. Post was a bit ambiguous without the edit]
Guys, this thread is about the new Credit detection, not intro detection. If you are having issues with that, please start a new thread. Please keep the discussion here about the new feature.
@anon18523487
I raised the orginal question because I assumed that most of the functionality worked the same way - and it ties in with seasons that have multiple different intros/outros. So IMO a completely valid topic question (refer to my original question above).
However, I did just notice above that Otta explained how both processes differ… either way - I did some testing earlier, and doesn’t really resolve my issues - so ill just keep doing it manually for certain libraries.
@FabulousFadz
Thanks for taking the time to reply - I’ve just resolved myself (and will recommend to others) to continue pressing the skip fwd button 2-3 times, as most anime intros/outros are 60-90secs. Most TV series don’t have previews I find so for those its works fine (skip credits feat).
Totally different. Intro detection checks the audio. Credit detection checks the video. And credit detection made no changes to intro detection. If it isn’t working properly now, it wasn’t working properly before, so please start a new thread as it would be a bug, not related to credit detection.
I think you missed the context of the conversation (which is fine).
This is less of a bug and more of a limitation of both current implementations (the assumption being that there will be only 1 unique intro/outro per season) based on testing and feedback.
It’s likely outside the scope - so ill get around to raising a feature request instead.
looks great - exactly what plex needs
Vote for a user selectable count down on the next episode when it gets to the post play screen on both android tv and apple tv
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At the risk of having this called off-topic…
I’ve got a few shows (anime) that change intro part-way through a season. So far, Plex does a marvelous job of catching the change, but I don’t add episodes one at a time. I suspect that if you add them one at a time, when a new intro appears, Plex fails to find it because it has no other episode with the intro to compare the file to, and figures there isn’t one. When the next episode with the new intro appears, Plex could again fail to detect the new intro because it had previously found no other episode with the same intro. Repeat forever from then on.
I didn’t know “analyze” triggers intro detection, that is wonderful news to know. As far as I knew, all it was for was to force Plex to detect the media-info for a file again. If this is the case, you can try to analyze multiple episodes at once, but I’ve had success doing the plex dance with the offending files. As long as you have more than 1 file with the same intro (maybe more? testing needed) Plex ought to detect a change in intro mid-season.
I stopped adding weekly episodes to my server for multiple reason. Plex not doing a good job on detection is a fair reason, but it’s mostly personal (I cannot stand having to wait a week for a new episode, so I wait until it’s all out and watch them at my own pace).
Now, for the reason my reply is on-topic:
Since end-credit detection is video-based, it sounds like Plex has no need to compare each episode to the previous. It should not matter if each episode has a unique outro, Plex ought to be able to detect it each time. I’m excited to throw my collection at it, and try out a variety of items and see how it works for myself. I was hoping for a docker image of this to test with though.
Upgraded a few days ago and have been watching the server during the Scheduled Tasks window (22:00 to 19:00). I’m seeing two strange things and wondering if others are also running into this.
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Since installing the alpha version during the scheduled task window the server scans each of the libraries - not speaking to the “Detecting Credits” components, which is expected, but all the libraries including video(Movie/TV) and non-video (photos/music) alike.
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When the assigned window for Scheduled Tasks starts - the “Detecting Credits” reverts back to quite a few files that were previously scanned (the video files have not been updated/modified).
Any thoughts on how to rectify/diagnose? Thanks!
Credit detection supports multiple credits. Think Marvel movies (movie, credit, extra, more credits). If this isn’t working, please let us know.
Can you make sure there is a ‘end-user setting’ to always use ‘end-credit detection’ without clicking anything?
I’m not sure what you mean by this?
I take it to mean they want a setting on the user (client)-side of things to auto-skip end credits. Similar to the current feature request to auto-skip intro credits.
