Save Time With Emby's Intro Skip

July 4, 2022

Save Time With Emby's Intro Skip
Requires: Emby Server 4.7 or later

In order to use the Intro Skip feature you need to edit each TV Show library and turn the feature on. Scroll down to the Markers section in the library and change the setting from NEVER to either "as a scheduled task" or "as a scheduled task and when media is added" depending on your particular needs.
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Once setup go to Scheduled Tasks and you'll see a new option has been added:
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By default this task is set to run every 24 hours.
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You can adjust it to run at specific time if you like. To add a new Task click the + sign above.
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This shows a new schedule that starts at 3 AM and is allowed to run for 4 hours. After clicking Add:
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We can now click the trashcan icon on the 24 hours schedule ending with:
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From our Scheduled Tasks menu we can manually run this job clicking the arrow icon. You will then see a status bar showing the percentage complete.
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There is nothing more needed on the server to use Intro Skip except to give it time to analyze all episodes and build the Intro Skip indexes.
This process may take a while depending on the number of episodes you have.

Client Settings
Each client can be set to ignore TV Show Intros, automatically use Intros, or to prompt use showing a button. You can set this option in the client option's Playback Menu.

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Skip Intro Button

With the Skip Intro button selected you can clearly see the button on the OSD immediately at the start of playback. The timeline is still at 0:00 before the show has started to play and we can already skip the introduction of the show.

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Clicking the Skip Intro button immediately jumps right to the start of the Episode.
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With the client option set to Automatically skip intros our TV show intros have been put on auto pilot.
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