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Intro Skipper Questions - nothingveryobvious - 2024-12-04
Hello, I just have a few questions about Intro Skipper.
1.) Does Jellyfin for Roku have intro skip buttons?
2.) I know that Jellyfin for Kodi does not have intro skip buttons. What do I need to enable in the plugin settings so intros will automatically skip? Should I select
Enable injected server-side skip Restart required!?3.) If I want intros to automatically skip on Jellyfin for Kodi, but I want to be able to select whether or not to skip on Jellyfin Android TV by using the button, which settings should I use in the plugin?
RE: Intro Skipper Questions - qwerty12 - 2024-12-04
I don't know much about Intro Skipper, so take this with a grain of salt.
1. I don't own a Roku, but I'm assuming no. It makes no calls to the Intro Skipper-specific endpoints to get its timestamps, and it doesn't appear to support Jellyfin's Media Segments API: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/issues/2019
2. I have Enable injected server-side skip enabled, along with Automatically Skip for All Clients enabled and Introduction checked for Auto skip the following types. This does enable automatic intro skipping with Kodi, but I do find I usually have to press the fast-forward button once when an intro starts so that the message the Intro Skipper plugin sends to Kodi is actually acted on. Not the plugin's fault.
3. I think checking Enable injected server-side skip, unchecking Automatically Skip for All Clients and then selecting your Kodi clients is enough. But I had trouble with this the last time I tried it - but a lot of changes have been made to Intro Skipper since then, so I'd certainly try it in your case and see if it works as expected.
Another option, if you're using the Jellyfin for Kodi plugin (instead of Jellycon) in Native Mode, and your media shares aren't readonly, is to make sure the Intro Skipper plugin is the one generating Jellyfin Media Segments and then install and configure https://github.com/endrl/jellyfin-plugin-edl. Warning: this plugin will write and place .edl files next to pretty much all of your video files, so if you're a stickler for tidiness don't install it. If Kodi can read these EDL files then you don't need to have auto skipping enabled in the Intro Skipper plugin. But I never got to try out the plugin myself: it kept choking on one of my libraries and wouldn't generate .edl files for it, and I didn't like that it had to be run on a schedule - the Intro Skipper plugin detects new additions to your library.