Plex Now Lets You Skip the Credits at the End of Shows and Movies With a Click

[MacRumors]

Popular media platform Plex has announced a new feature that lets users skip the credits at the end of shows and movies with the click of a button.

With the feature enabled, when the credits start to roll, a new "Skip Credits" button now automatically appears on the screen. In a blog post announcing the feature, Plex explained how the new credit detection technology works in the following way:

We've worked hard to tune a machine learning algorithm to make sense of several inputs (text detection, the presence of black frames, and a few other secret ingredients) to come up with a reliable set of markers when credits begin and end. It's a tricky problem, and there may still be some cases where it doesn't go exactly to plan, but those cases should be few and far between at this point.

Credit detection works for both TV shows and movies, and it will also detect and let users skip directly to mid-credits or post-credits scenes, according to Plex.

Plex Pass holders will get credit detection automatically for their personal media collection after they perform the "Analyze" action on their library. The Skip Credits button is also available on Plex's full free streaming-on-demand catalog. Interested users can check out Plex's credits detection support article for more.

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[mlamb64150]

That would be a disastrous example. Thats the best part of Napoleon Dynamite!

 

[Apple_Robert]

I like it. Glad I have the pass.

 

[MaxBurn]

I've always had the ability to hit the back button and then select to play the next episode. Not a paid plex pass user.

 

[melliflu]

"it's a tricky problem, 4.7% of cases don't go exactly to plan, but we won't spend the time and money to fix it"

 

[tharitm]

It's strange that lot of features from Plex still haven't made it to the big streaming services. Like the ability to shuffle play an episode from a tv series or even shuffle anything from the library.

 

[T Coma]

So they invented fast-forward?

¯\_( ツ)_/¯ ?

 

[Reggaenald]

Not the point of credits is it.
If this becomes even more standard, credits will soon play over the entire movie.

Credit where credit’s due no more.

 

[page3]

A least there is a setting to disable this. Streaming services take note.

 

[vegetassj4]

iTunes got so bad (in my opinion) that it forced me to look elsewhere. Plex rocks.

 

[Kissmo1980]

I like it. Glad I have the pass.

I was on the fence about buying a Plex Pass... until one day I caught it 50% off.

Best purchase ever!

 

[darngooddesign]

TL-DR: Plex now has an old Netflix feature.

 

[WWPD]

Won't be impressed until it can skip to the main plot points of movies, so I can watch them in minutes instead of wasting over an hour of my time watching the entire movie.

 

[MacWiz_007]

Not a bad feature!

 

[stevet]

generous of them lol.

 

[fenderbass146]

I've always had the ability to hit the back button and then select to play the next episode. Not a paid plex pass user.

I mean...that's totally not the same thing as what this does.

 

[NightFox]

Not the point of credits is it.
If this becomes even more standard, credits will soon play over the entire movie.

Credit where credit’s due no more.

I was sitting through the credits of The Glass Onions the other night just because I couldn't be bothered to turn the TV off and go to bed, and I was wondering what the point of them really was? I certainly wasn't thinking it was interesting to know who the hairdresser to the second assistant grip dolly boy in the Greece location was. I imagine the only people who actually read credits are the people who are in them (I know I would). But in terms of providing recognition or credit - by who?

 

[fenderbass146]

TL-DR: Plex now has an old Netflix feature.

With your own content...comparing something you host yourself to a billion dollar company is silly.

 

[darngooddesign]

With your own content...comparing something you host yourself to a billion dollar company is silly.

Its still an old Netflix feature.

 

[fenderbass146]

Its still an old Netflix feature.

yea, it's just like saying I can fast forward on Netflix is an old VHS feature...

 

[FelixDerKater]

Someone should create a feature where you can make a micro-transaction to skip a particular ad sequence.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Companies ruining the credits has somehow become an epidemic in streaming, and somehow Apple is the worst offender.

Some shows still have content in the credits. The worst possible way to handle credits is to force them to shrink to a tiny window in the top right while showing a giant still frame of the next episode. When I try to re-maximize it it pauses, unpausing it shrinks again.

And of course being Apple there's no option to stop this.

However Plex's way looks the least offensive and can even be turned off. Plex is the last company involved in video streaming in any way that cares at ALL about the user experience.

"Engagement" is a curse word.

So yeah kudos to Plex on this and let's hope the rest of the industry pulls its head out of its collective...obsession with engagement.

 

[darngooddesign]

I was sitting through the credits of The Glass Onions the other night just because I couldn't be bothered to turn the TV off and go to bed, and I was wondering what the point of them really was? I certainly wasn't thinking it was interesting to know who the hairdresser to the second assistant grip dolly boy in the Greece location was. I imagine the only people who actually read credits are the people who are in them (I know I would). But in terms of providing recognition or credit - by who?

Surely you understand the point of credits, which is giving credit to the people who made a thing. As far as who reads it, people in the movie/tv makeup industry are probably interested in who did makeup for a thing if it was good; although they doubtfully read every episode. But yeah, people who were involved in Glass Onions, and their friends, love seeing their name up in the Glass Onions credits.

 

[darngooddesign]

Companies ruining the credits has somehow become an epidemic in streaming, and somehow Apple is the worst offender.

Some shows still have content in the credits. The worst possible way to handle credits is to force them to shrink to a tiny window in the top right while showing a giant still frame of the next episode. When I try to re-maximize it it pauses, unpausing it shrinks again.

And of course being Apple there's no option to stop this.

However Plex's way looks the least offensive and can even be turned off. Plex is the last company involved in video streaming in any way that cares at ALL about the user experience.

"Engagement" is a curse word.

So yeah kudos to Plex on this and let's hope the rest of the industry pulls its head out of its collective...obsession with engagement.

Now that I think about it, I seem to recall that even years ago TV stations would shrink the currently playing window during the credits so they could also run something else pic-in-pic style. Some shows still do artful things during the closing credits which is really nice to see.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Someone should create a feature where you can make a micro-transaction to skip a particular ad sequence.

Commercial skip on the ReplayTV worked so well for DVR'd shows. I loved that thing back in the day.