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Plex Now Lets You Skip the Credits at the End of Shows and Movies With a Click
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FF is an old VHS feature, well technically its an old reel-to-reel/magnetic tape feature, and this is an old Netflix feature.
Thank god it's optional. End credits are great, I hate it when they are cut off or reduced to a tiny PIP screen. I like to see the credits.
Did that work the same way as VHS recorders which could sense the change in black backgrounds to skip recording commercials?
It would be even better if it could just skip Napoleon Dynamite altogether!
Streaming services can't incorporate only unique, new features only, can they? Who cares if Netflix did it. It's in Plex now.
Credits are important to People in the 🎥 📺 industry serving as both recognition and possibly your next Job!
A long time ago in graduate school, a friend from Mexico and I were watching a film in a theatre. At the end of the showing and as the credits were scrolling, almost everyone got up and left. He (and therefore I, too) made sure he sat down and watched all the credits out of respect for the various creators and producers of the film. I really like that idea. It's a practice I've kept up with and you some times learn some things from the credits.
Creating a feature to skip the credits seems such a bad idea to me. It's rather disrespectful. If people really wanted, they can press the fast forward button.
Creating a feature to skip the credits seems such a bad idea to me. It's rather disrespectful. If people really wanted, they can press the fast forward button.
I totally hear you! I also hate it when streaming services reduce the credits to a PIP screen. It is so disrespectful. On top of that, it adds to our societal attention deficit, by urging us on to keep wanting the next thing as opposed to just waiting for the credits to finish.
This would explain why (on my Windows Plex Server) the Plex Media Scanner process has been very busy eating up my CPU the last couple of days. Not a feature I have any interest in so I will disable it.
I suppose it's one of those variable things.
I do read the credits quite often, checking things like the supporting cast so I can identify actors I vaguely recognise from elsewhere.
I also love to check out the songs/soundtrack listings, as well as the filming locations.
As all of this info is presented in the movie/show, it's the most official source, and is often easier than finding the correct bit of the IMDb page.
The credits can also be an interesting place for other reasons – I've seen plenty of creative elements added, neat artwork, amusing inserts and Easter eggs.
It's also great that people get, uh… credited for their work!
I like credits, especially for movies. If I found the photography or the costumes or the soundtrack or something else to my liking, I look at who did it and save it for next time.
I have this bad habit of not forgetting names.
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:
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.
Article Link: Plex Now Lets You Skip the Credits at the End of Shows and Movies With a Click
Or, you know, you could just click next episode..
At first I thought it was amusing, but I'm starting to find our increasing dependence on and adulation of machine learning starting to get a little disturbing.
Same with Naked Gun Movies and Monty Python. We need to sack the people in charge of sacking the credits in the name of the llamas!
And then there's me, 5 minutes after the end of the movie to my gf:
"Wow, his acting was really good... y'know, the guy who played the main guy... y'know, the tall one... with the hair..."
They need to do this automatically to recognize when you've finished watching a movie and not leave it as 99% watched in my library.
I don't really see a need to manually skip them. I guess to quickly see if a movie has a post credits scene. For TV shows can't you just click play next episode?
I don't really see a need to manually skip them. I guess to quickly see if a movie has a post credits scene. For TV shows can't you just click play next episode?
You also no longer need to rewind the episode before you send it back to the servers for the next person to view.
I hate then they either don't say their name or one time really quick and quiet, so how am I supposed to know what character name to look for. And when you look up the movie why do they alway show the actor's current pic. I want to see what they looked like in the movie then I might be able to find them without the name. And this is why I love Amazon Prime X-Ray. Just pause when they are in a scene. Even if you don't know their name, there's only like four list, so I can eliminate.
The funniest thing is when BB still had "Be Kind, Please Rewind" on DVD cases.
But a møøse once bit my sister…
Ooh good point. Will it look for mid or post credits scenes?
Heck yes! "Where's Napole-on?" That scene always makes me laugh and choke up at the same time.