Skip Intros Feature

[sundevil67 30]

I have a scheduled task entitled "Detect Episode Intros".. It seems to be running without any problems, except that it doesn't work. I don't recall ever seeing a "skip intro" button, but I'd really like it if I could. I don't have the first clue of how to troubleshoot this. 95% of the TV shows I am watching are from links within strm files.

Is there something I'm missing that must also be done to get this to work? Any others running Emby server on Mac OS been able to do this successfully? 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Luke 42916]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[sundevil67 30]

On 8/11/2026 at 7:30 PM, Luke said:

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

There isn't any information in the logs about this. There's only the scheduled task & a select box in the "Playback" option in the settings (below the "home" link in the main admin nav. Screenshots attached are the only mention of this option that i can find, and I've just never seen the "Skip Intro" button..

[Luke 42916]

Where did you expect to see it but did not? 

can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

[sundevil67 30]

On 8/13/2026 at 11:36 AM, Luke said:

Where did you expect to see it but did not? 

can you please provide a specific example?

How to Report a Problem

Thanks !

 

The "skip intro" button simply doesn't appear.

[ebr 16643]

Hi.  Please provide a server log from when you ran that task.

[sundevil67 30]

I am having a few other problems at the moment; maybe there is some connection between them all could help here:

1. There are some instances where I get that "No compatible Streams Available", but those STRM files can run fine in VLC. The same show will work one day, but not the next.
2. Sometimes my Emby "Activity" in MacOS Activity Monitor gets as high as 100% & bogs the server down
3. My "Continue Watching" area, which leaves off some shows, works for others, and hangs on to really outdated ones as well. 

Attached are screenshots from every place I can think of where the "Skip Intros" feature is configured.

Thank you for your help.

 

Edited 4 minutes ago by sundevil67
newer log in subsequent thread

[sundevil67 30]

I was able to get the drive back on. The Activity Monitor shows >90% for Emby, and then the FFMPG transcoding process seems to crap out on one particular show I've been testing, same episode fails every time. That's just one example now (The Westies Episode S01E02).

Here is an updated set of logs

ffmpeg-transcode-403d6fe5-0b58-4b00-9863-aa6463ec0538_1.txt embyserver.txt

Edited 1 minute ago by sundevil67