Glad it worked. Best time move on now and not dwell on the journey 
@anon5074910
Seriously, I can not express how helpful you have been.
I have been trying for months to get rid of this prompt, from google searches, reddit, etc
You are the first person to fix it for me.
When I watch a favourite TV like Doctor Who, I am immersed from the moment the titles start, only to have 8 inch high “Skip Intro” come up on the screen 
Thank you again, but it needs to be a simple ON/OFF setting in the client!!!
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Strange, my Intro Icon is small in show onscreen controls. No bother too me, it disappears if not implemented.
It’s funny how things change. I initially really liked the intro detection but over time found we disliked more and more getting to the point where we stopped even using it. Then it actually became a annoyance seeing it so as a family we decided to just remove it.
But I agree, it’s a very good feature for those who want it. Just delighted it can be removed for the minority of us who don’t want it.
I do also agree, it’s a small prompt, not sure why the originator is seeing it so large.
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Hi Guys… @anon5074910 , @SE56
It’s not a small icon???
It’s a large rectangle in the lower half of the screen on my Fire TV stick, if the intro screen on my projector is very dark, the skip intro button will even rise the screen brightness… it’s not a “small icon”
I’ve just done a google imagine search and can’t find any image that shows that I was seeing.
I did find some that showed a small icon, but that’s not what you get on the fire stick with a projector, it’s a large thing bottom, right of screen, and stays for about 10 seconds.
I use Plex to watch had picked and collected films and tv shows, that I buy on DVD, bluray, and where I can 4K bluray.
Each show is special to me, and the moment it starts I step into the world…
Only to be forced to watch a “SKIP INTRO” button!
Very small for me and disappears all on it’s own as I have stated. Thank goodness it’s available for those shows that have huge intro’s which are basically the same season are season.
@SE56 I’m not disputing the feature, or it’s value to plex users.
What I am saying is this… don’t force it on people…
Each new feature seems to be turned on by default, then people like me self have to spend lots of time learning how to turn them off.
Why not let people have the option just to turn features on and off in the client.
You must agree, to turn the skip intro feature off required to settings in two different menus!!!
Just give me a ON/OFF setting in the client and I will be happy
@SE56
you say “strange, my Intro Icon is small in the show onscreen controls”???
I don’t have on screen controls???
I’m not watching on PC, but a client, Fire TV stick, full screen it’s a Fuc*ing large icon that appears!
If the intro to your film or tv show is dark, this comes very prominent on screen…
With any new option like this, it can either be on or off by default. The question is which way should the default go. I’d think that most people would like to see a way to skip the intro. What value do you get out of seeing the same cr*p episode after episode? That’s beyond me. I want to get to the meat of this next episode, not waste time seeing the same junk I saw in the last episode. This is also especially painful with audio podcasts (I know Plex doesn’t do podcasts anymore but I still listen to them with other software). So default of Skip Intro seems like the best default to me (you’re the first person I’ve ever encountered who doesn’t like this feature). If the default were set to off others would complain that the default is off!
Why not let people turn it off in the client? Because it’s a server option, not a client option. I think why you still see them is because perhaps the server, in its nightly processing, detects the intro and modifies the actual video file to provide the Skip Intro button (I may be wrong here - it may just mark it in the database to say "put the Skip Intro button on this video from this start 'til this finish) so in order to turn it off on the nightly process must detect it and remove that from the database. I have no idea if turning the option off in the settings and waiting for the nightly process to complete is required before previous videos would lose their Skip Intro buttons.
And think of this - What if there were multiple users of your Plex server and some want Skip Intro but others don’t? Now it’d have to not only be implemented as a client option to turn on or off, but it’d need to be an individual client setting, need to go into the client UI so the user could later turn it off, etc. And you wouldn’t want to store that client setting on the client device because then the user would need to set it for the TV, the mobile device, the laptop, etc. If the Skip Intro button was burned into the video it’d need to be removed and added on the fly per-user configuration, etc.
Software is complex and lots of things need to be taken into consideration, especially in more complex systems with multiple users and the like. Just yelling “There should be a simple on/off switch in the client!!!” is a very naive and not well thought-out rant.
@adefaria
Thanks for your post, yes, you are right, any new feature could be either On or Off by default.
Let me be clear, I am not saying the feature should be removed, and I am not saying the feature should be off by default.
What I am saying is the feature should be easy to be disabled by users that don’t want it?
Do you not agree with that???
I can see this agreement is coming down to an age old question of who uses Plex.
There are people who record TV shows and watch them back to back, and there are people like myself and watch only a select library of videos, all from dvd/bluray media.
We are two different, but just important users.
All I am requesting is give users a simple way to turn new features on and off.
Why is that too much to ask?
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So you’re in the “I want it off by default” camp. Fine. However, I suspect that you’re in the minority.
I agree there should be an easy way to turn this off but the implementation of that “easy way” is more complicated than you make it out to be. That was my point. It’s too much to ask because it’s not as simple a task as just implementing a single switch. I gave examples. And I don’t think the way to turn this off is that difficult. The server owner need only toggle a few options on the server and perhaps wait for some processing.
And I don’t agree with your over-simplification of two kinds of Plex users. There are many types. Some record TV (I don’t - I have zero cable subscriptions thus I can’t use the DVR thingy). Some people watch back to back (AKA binging) some have a few series they like and switch among them, maybe take in a movie or concert on occasion. There are those that are remote users, some on Fire Sticks, others on Vizio, Roku, Bravia, PS4, etc with their own viewing patterns. Some people run servers and get content from DVDs or other means. Some like the Skip Intro, others perhaps don’t but just ignore it. (I agree that having a gigantic Skip Intro button obscuring your episode is a pain. Might want to talk to the implementers of the Plex app on Fire Stick because as you see it doesn’t look that way on other clients).
When you think about it, Skip is only really applicable to videos stored on a PMS server. There’s a setting to say do not do the Skip Intro thing. It may be more than just one toggle or require a toggle here and a toggle there and possibly some processing. It may affect all your users (I have ~10 friends) or household members. Some of them may want it and others may not. Again, there’s no simple solution to toggling it on or off and everybody’s happy.
@ChrisHerts About the 6th post I was going to say Plex Dance
I guess I was right. Sorry to hear how the db structure got you too.
But iykyk so happy plexing 
That’s interesting… On my Fire Stick 4K this intro is about that size, but in the upper right corner. I’ll bet I’m on an older version of the client…
I do think they could make the icon more transparent, like the network logo behind the icon in your image.
I’ll hijack the thread away form the back and forth over who likes what feature…
Out of curiosity, what kind of projector do you use? I’m having a hard time finding one bright enough to use in anything other than almost complete darkness. Trying not to spend $900 on one like we have at work that has a bright picture in a sunny room…
I think this point applies to much of Plex software in later years actually.
Convoluted ways of enabling and disabling ‘features’.
I purposely migrated from Kodi to Plex back in 2012 as I was getting tired of playing in the backend and tinkering.
Now what I want are simple toggle switches, not multiple steps. Personally, I see this more that Plex are tacking on stuff to what was good software without much thought about usability.
Oh well, it is what it is.
It’s not a matter of simply toggling on or off a switch. There’s more to be considered. I’ve explained it before. You seemingly refuse to consider the nuances and shout that they don’t exist. If you continue to resist considering all the implications you will only remain in the dark. Your choice.
That is exactly what was done recently with another ‘feature’. A feature that was more difficult to manage than the one being discussed in here.
The short sightedness of some is alarming.
So let me get this straight. In situations where there is not a simple and clear answer to “on? or off?” you advocate for what? Making a simple on/off button? So how exactly is that supposed to work? And how does that make any sense?
