Plugin: TheIntroDB – Emby Plugin

[Kyouma 23]

Is there a way to remove the chapters generated from this plugin?

[Kyouma 23]

@Pasithea

A few more questions/suggestions.

1. Is it possible to also add a Pop up for skip credits/next episode?  
2. It would be great, if we could have a place in the UI to see, remove chapters retrieved from this plugin. Maybe also a way to submit new markers within the Plugin UI?

Thank you for making this.

[Pasithea 21]

@KyoumaI believe you'd need to remove all chapters from the media currently, then rescan the chapters to reset them. I'll look into adding your other suggestions though.

[Kyouma 23]

9 minutes ago, Pasithea said:

@KyoumaI believe you'd need to remove all chapters from the media currently, then rescan the chapters to reset them. I'll look into adding your other suggestions though.

That means i would also lose the embedded chapters no? Then an option to only remove TheIntroDB chapters is definitely needed.

[Pasithea 21]

Yeah that makes sense. I'll probably have a new version out by the end of the week with that. Hopefully sooner!

[sh0rty 768]

On 7/2/2026 at 6:53 PM, Kyouma said:

That means i would also lose the embedded chapters no? Then an option to only remove TheIntroDB chapters is definitely needed.

You need to remove the plugin and refetch metadata of all libraries affected by the plugin atm. 

[Kyouma 23]

36 minutes ago, sh0rty said:

You need to remove the plugin and refetch metadata of all libraries affected by the plugin atm. 

Thanks, did work for me. Not the ideal way, but good to know. 

[wabisabi926 15]

Request localization support. I can provide Simplified Chinese translations if needed.

[Pasithea 21]

22 hours ago, wabisabi926 said:

Request localization support. I can provide Simplified Chinese translations if needed.

Noted, I'll work on that soon

[alex77777 50]

@PasitheaIve submitted timestamps about a week ago on the IntroDB website, how long do they typically sit pending for?

[Pasithea 21]

6 hours ago, alex77777 said:

@PasitheaIve submitted timestamps about a week ago on the IntroDB website, how long do they typically sit pending for?

Hey, thanks for submitting!

As it’s a volunteer project and we have thousands of submissions to get through, it can take a while to get to your submission. Possibly a couple of months before human eyes see it.

The primary way submissions are verified is automatic when another user submits a similar time. As more users submit, the db grows exponentially.

You can however use your submission right away by requesting with your API key, as that returns pending submissions with increased weight.

[alex77777 50]

2 hours ago, Pasithea said:

You can however use your submission right away by requesting with your API key, as that returns pending submissions with increased weight.

Ok thanks, so far Ive contributed 22 timestamps.

I would love to see Emby add skip recap prompts to fully utilize the information that the IntroDB provides.

Thanks for the insight on how this works. 

[TecEmbryo 16]

Hi, 

first thanks for this nice project!
But do I have to do this manually under "chapter"? The website shows a "Skip Recap" button in the demo, but I can't find it in Emby. So the files run normally, even though something was found, and there's no graphical way to skip it. What am I misunderstanding?

[Pasithea 21]

4 hours ago, TecEmbryo said:

Hi, 

first thanks for this nice project!
But do I have to do this manually under "chapter"? The website shows a "Skip Recap" button in the demo, but I can't find it in Emby. So the files run normally, even though something was found, and there's no graphical way to skip it. What am I misunderstanding?

Unfortunately Emby does not provide a graphical skip button in the way TIDB needs them or way to edit the UI to add one without extra modifications. 

While Emby does have a skip intro button on some interfaces, it only supports some segment types, specific timings, etc. that aren’t able to be interfaced with TIDB’s data.

I know this is a pretty requested feature though, so I’ll look into some improvements.

[alex77777 50]

5 hours ago, Pasithea said:

Unfortunately Emby does not provide a graphical skip button in the way TIDB needs them or way to edit the UI to add one without extra modifications. 

While Emby does have a skip intro button on some interfaces, it only supports some segment types, specific timings, etc. that aren’t able to be interfaced with TIDB’s data.

I know this is a pretty requested feature though, so I’ll look into some improvements.

@Luke I would love to see this improved

[alex77777 50]

@PasitheaI just wanted to let you know of a small flaw with the introdb submissions. When there is multiple versions of a movie I cant submit times for all versions. I get a message saying

 

For example Terminator 2 has many versions. Specifically it has the Special Edition and the Ultimate Cut. With the difference in total length of the movie being around 3 mins between them. So the credits play in different spots. I cant add the timestamps for the Ultimate Cut because it seems to be too close in time to another submission I made. 

Hopefully I explained this well

Thanks

[Kyouma 23]

14 minutes ago, alex77777 said:

@PasitheaI just wanted to let you know of a small flaw with the introdb submissions. When there is multiple versions of a movie I cant submit times for all versions. I get a message saying

 

For example Terminator 2 has many versions. Specifically it has the Special Edition and the Ultimate Cut. With the difference in total length of the movie being around 3 mins between them. So the credits play in different spots. I cant add the timestamps for the Ultimate Cut because it seems to be too close in time to another submission I made. 

Hopefully I explained this well

Thanks

Do you include video duration when submitting segments? Segments can overlap if the duration is different and that at least always worked for me.

[Pasithea 21]

17 minutes ago, alex77777 said:

@PasitheaI just wanted to let you know of a small flaw with the introdb submissions. When there is multiple versions of a movie I cant submit times for all versions. I get a message saying

 

For example Terminator 2 has many versions. Specifically it has the Special Edition and the Ultimate Cut. With the difference in total length of the movie being around 3 mins between them. So the credits play in different spots. I cant add the timestamps for the Ultimate Cut because it seems to be too close in time to another submission I made. 

Hopefully I explained this well

Thanks

Make sure to include the total duration when submitting. Different film versions are differentiated based on the duration, which allows you to submit multiple times.

[TecEmbryo 16]

19 hours ago, Pasithea said:

Unfortunately Emby does not provide a graphical skip button in the way TIDB needs them or way to edit the UI to add one without extra modifications. 

While Emby does have a skip intro button on some interfaces, it only supports some segment types, specific timings, etc. that aren’t able to be interfaced with TIDB’s data.

I know this is a pretty requested feature though, so I’ll look into some improvements.

Thanks for reply!

Okay... and I just wanted to know if the problem is on my end. It also seems that the plugin only finds the files where the chapters are integrated. With files where Emby itself inserts the chapters – for example, every 5 minutes – it doesn't find any intros, etc.

[alex77777 50]

20 hours ago, Pasithea said:

Make sure to include the total duration when submitting

Yeah I included the total duration, and still get that message. The difference between versions is 3 minutes, so I assume it thinks I'm adding the timestamp for the same version of the movie since they are so close in length.

 

[Pasithea 21]

13 hours ago, TecEmbryo said:

Thanks for reply!

Okay... and I just wanted to know if the problem is on my end. It also seems that the plugin only finds the files where the chapters are integrated. With files where Emby itself inserts the chapters – for example, every 5 minutes – it doesn't find any intros, etc.

Good question, the plugin doesn't use chapters to decide what to fetch. Every movie/episode is looked up by its TMDb/TVDb/IMDb ID, so both kinds of files are checked against the DB. What you're seeing is Emby itself: for files with no embedded chapters, Emby generates placeholder chapters (~every 5 minutes) during scans, and that write replaces the whole chapter list — including the markers the plugin added. Files that do have embedded chapters never get regenerated, so the markers stay. Re-running the TheIntroDB Media Segment Scan after a library scan normally restores them, but if Emby regenerates those chapters afterwards they can get wiped again. There's no Emby API for a plugin to say "my chapters must win," so it's a platform limitation I'm still working around. If you want to confirm, the plugin log will show either "TheIntroDB saved N chapters/markers" or "API returned no data" for a given file.is 

In the trouble shooting section on the plugin's GitHub page it does state:
It's recommended to disable Emby's internal intro marker detection in Dashboard → Library → select library → Advanced/options → Disable "Generate intro video markers".

[Pasithea 21]

6 hours ago, alex77777 said:

Yeah I included the total duration, and still get that message. The difference between versions is 3 minutes, so I assume it thinks I'm adding the timestamp for the same version of the movie since they are so close in length.

 

Ah you're right, runtimes within 5 minutes were treated as the same version, so the second credits submission was seen as overlapping the first. I've tightened the version grouping to 2 minutes (from 5), which still absorbs encode-level length differences but lets close-length re-cuts like T2's be submitted separately. Feel free to try submitting now!

[TecEmbryo 16]

9 hours ago, Pasithea said:

In the trouble shooting section on the plugin's GitHub page it does state:
It's recommended to disable Emby's internal intro marker detection in Dashboard → Library → select library → Advanced/options → Disable "Generate intro video markers".

Thanks for reply!

Too many good things can also lead to a bad result.

That will almost certainly be the case for me.

I'm using:

Emby Server 4.10.0.22
Emby Intro Maker
Chapter API
TV Theme Videos - don't work in beta
TV Theme Songs - don't work in beta
-> that's why I still have "Theme Maker" enabled.

Although I've disabled all plugins from overwriting existing information in the settings, I should probably just stick to one plugin.

Since I prefer a graphical interface to skip steps, "Emby Intro Maker" is the only option for now.

And as soon as I switch back to a regular server version, i.e., 4.10 Final, TV Theme Videos and TV Theme Songs should work again.