Really like having these new features but I noticed a few issues:
When shows have a preview of the next episode at the end, after the credits, the “skip credits” button does not appear (noticed on My Hero Academia S1)
When the show has a recap section at the start, the “Skip Intro” button only appears after that.(noticed on My Hero Academia S1)
This might be intentional but I would love for this to be an option.
I would like to see the following options:
Skip Recap button
Skip Preview button
An option to always skip Recap/Intro/Credits/Preview that affects the whole library but can also be toggled per Series.
A “Binge Mode” button that enables all of the above temporarily
I’d like that as well, but its really hard to have a computer determine what is a “recap” and a “preview” for shows. It’d actually have to determine the content it is looking at is from a previous/next episode (respectively), either by listening for one of several key words (“Previously, on NCIS”) or reading the text itself (“Next episode preview”).
As is, Plex checks for intros by “listening” for audio that is identical to each episode within the first few minutes of each file. Since previews have the audio that only matches parts of prior episodes, it cannot be detected as an intro.
Similarly, Credit Detection works by looking for large blocks of text near the end of each episode. Pretty much any scene which has visuals without a lot of text are thought to be post-credit scenes, so the “skip credits” option disappears.
I would be one of the first people to enable these features, but I don’t think we can have this work without a human (or advanced AI? Someone go buy OpenAI!) personally checking every single episode out there and making universal markers. The problem gets even worse, as there is no guarantee that my copy of a TV show has the exact same recap in the exact same place on my file as it does yours. And there is little worse than an incorrect intro/credit marker that skips the real episode parts.
Hrm but can’t you just assume that everything after the credits is a preview? Likewise, everything before the intro could be a recap but that is probably more hit and miss. But if that is a user controlled option, per show, they would probably know best.
In my case, My Hero Academy is always like this, so I could set up my settings once and then binge away.
Currently, half the episodes of a show I am watching have a pre-intro scene, and half do not. So a setting to start only from after the intro would not work for this situation.
For a lot of anime, there is often: Show, credits, post-credits scene, next-episode preview. And even then, some episodes of the same anime DON’T have a post credits scene, while having it in others. So skipping to the end at the first credit marker would not be a good thing to do here too.
Believe me, I’d like this feature. Having an option to enable “Skip everything up to and including intro” and “Skip everything from first credits marker to end” would be nice, but would definitely have to be on a per show level. I’m not against it, but it’d be so much work for all my shows that I doubt I’d go to the effort to check any of my shows to enable it. Having the option, for people like you that are confident that it’d work for a particular show, sure, why not?
Now, if we had a nice GUI interface to be able to manually set or change intro/credit markers ourselves so we could manually include previously-on/next-time-on in the default markers, I MIGHT do that.
I do agree to have an option to auto-skip intros/credits. There is a fairly popular feature request to allow an auto-skip. It’s so popular that there have been multiple feature requests for it, all linked together (look at the linked posts ).
Post-credit scenes, as I said. Some anime have actual content that contributes to the story, and it appears after the credits. Some have little quirky lore bits not important to the story, but still fun to watch, like the Tachikoma skits after each episode of Ghost in the Shell. If you set the show to skip to next file right when credits come up, you’d miss them.
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