Plugin: TheIntroDB – Emby Plugin

[Pasithea 29]

41 minutes ago, spongebob69 said:

Hi,

I have installed the plugin, run scan from scheduled tasks but still can’t see skip intro button when starting a show.

I use Emby app on my LG tv. Do I need emby premier subscription?

What show? Could be that TheIntroDB doesn't have the show yet.

[spongebob69 10]

The office US (theTVDB 73244)

do I need to have Emby premiere?

[Pasithea 29]

17 minutes ago, spongebob69 said:

The office US (theTVDB 73244)

do I need to have Emby premiere?

No, you don't need Emby premiere. 

That show could be the issue. Looks like The Office only has about 19% coverage: https://theintrodb.org/tv/2316

[spongebob69 10]

Is it possible to add skipdb.com database to the plugin? https://skipdb.tv/title/tt0386676
 

skipdb.com is bigger than theintrodb

[Pasithea 29]

Just now, spongebob69 said:

Is it possible to add skipdb.com database to the plugin? https://skipdb.tv/title/tt0386676
 

skipdb.com is bigger than theintrodb

SkipDB uses automatic segment detection, many of the segments are inaccurate. TheIntroDB has significantly more accurate segments as they're all validated by real humans. That's also an inaccurate assessment, SkipDB has 104k segments while TIDB has 173k segments. TheIntroDB is also in the process of migrating to v4, which will greatly increase this number because many segments have been pulled from the DB to be migrated to TheTVDB ID mapping.
 

[spongebob69 10]

I have checked for episode 1 season 1 and still now skip the intro button (there is data for this episode in introDB).

[seanbuff 1446]

14 hours ago, spongebob69 said:

do I need to have Emby premiere?

 

14 hours ago, Pasithea said:

No, you don't need Emby premiere.

I've never tested myself, but even if the server is not performing the intro detection - isn't Emby Premiere required to show the pop-up?

2 hours ago, spongebob69 said:

I have checked for episode 1 season 1 and still now skip the intro button (there is data for this episode in introDB).

 

[spongebob69 10]

44 minutes ago, seanbuff said:

I've never tested myself, but even if the server is not performing the intro detection - isn't Emby Premiere required to show the pop-up?

Can someone verify this? I do not want to waste any more time if Premiere is needed, which I do not have.

[Neminem 1977]

Screenshot from this Emby Premiere Feature Matrix | Emby Documentation

[spongebob69 10]

Thanks!

This should be mentioned in the first post using red text.

[Neminem 1977]

Well people should know how the feature matrix works or know what they can't do without Emby Premier.

 

[OnyXxL 2]

I agree that it is a little bit confusing. In my mind I first thought that The Intro DB plugin was made to work like the "Intro Skip" functionality provided in Emby Premiere.

But sadly there is a limitation in Emby. The "skip intro/skip credits" buttons cannot be called at this time by The Intro DB plugin as said by @Pasithea:

The only way to skip intro is to deal with the chapters for me.

Anyway, I'm still confused as the doc states that the native "Skip Intro" should appear, it does not mention that it only works with Emby Premiere, but I might miss something too:


 

Edited October 12 by OnyXxL

[Pasithea 29]

9 minutes ago, OnyXxL said:

I agree that it is a little bit confusing. In my mind I first thought that The Intro DB plugin was made to work like the "Intro Skip" functionality provided in Emby Premiere.

But sadly there is a limitation in Emby. The "skip intro/skip credits" buttons cannot be called at this time by The Intro DB plugin as said by @Pasithea:

The only way to skip intro is to deal with the chapters for me.

Anyway, I'm still confused as the doc states that the native "Skip Intro" should appear, it does not mention that it only works with Emby Premiere, but I might miss something too:


 

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll add a note that the actual "skip intro" button only appears if you have Emby premiere.

[mwongjay 105]

Is there any way to increase api limits for some price? I have 58k items currently and new items added weekly. At this rate I'm looking at over 2 months..

[Pasithea 29]

TheIntroDB API v4 Released!
This is the largest change to the API since v1: media identity moves to TheTVDB, and with it come proper episode-order handling, a much larger request budget, and a full v4 endpoint surface.

What's New in v4?
- TVDB is the identity. tvdb_id is now canonical. You can still address a title by tmdb_id or imdb_id when you request it, the API resolves it automatically!
- Episode order and mapping. TVDB's default order is the order TheIntroDB stores and answers in. If your season and episode numbers come from a different order, pass mapping (default, official, dvd, alternate, absolute, regional, plus the Jellyfin spellings) and the API converts your coordinates into default and echoes your own coordinates back.
**Because of this new episode mapping, all submissions have been converted to how they appear on TVDB. If you find an episode that is incorrect, flag it and submit the correct segment! If you believe there is an issue with your submissions, please report it to hello@theintrodb.org**
- Library-scale rate limits. Due to popular demand, the daily budgets are far larger: 100,000 requests/day for signed-in /media lookups, 5,000/day anonymous per IP, and 1,500/day per account for the other endpoints.

[Pasithea 29]

On 10/15/2026 at 5:09 PM, mwongjay said:

Is there any way to increase api limits for some price? I have 58k items currently and new items added weekly. At this rate I'm looking at over 2 months..

Should be much higher now. 
I still need to update the Emby plugin (unless someone wants to help PR), but it should work just the same now.