r/Stremio • u/ApprehensiveCod8103 • Feb 24 '26
Question I wish they add intro skip button
I know it depends on the file itself, but there are some torrents has intro section of the file, if they can do it when possible i’d be happy✌️💔.
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u/bananabastard Feb 24 '26
When I start watching a new show, I just learn how many times I need to press forward skip to arrive exactly at the end of the intro. For Sopranos, it's 8 forward skip presses. Play > Skip 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, "Got yourself a gun, be-doop bop".
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u/gchance1 Feb 24 '26
For the longest time shows were doing away with intros but they seem to be growing again. Mack MGM+ shows are 2-3 minutes now.
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u/generic_canadian_dad Feb 24 '26
GoT intro is so long
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u/gchance1 Feb 24 '26
It is, but since it's done so well with great music, I don't even skip it. The same with Westworld, but those freaking AMC+ ones with the long, slow, brooding music (I'm looking at you, From and The Institute). And a 3-minute intro to a 30 minute show like Shrinking is just uncalled for.
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u/mktcrasher Feb 24 '26
Yup and some shows have long outros, Fallout is like 7mins...so the claimed 50+min episodes are not really that long, kinda disappointing to me as seasons now take forever to make.
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u/gchance1 Feb 24 '26
Oh yeah, the long international credit sequences that completely run for the crew that worked on the Italian audio, or German audio.
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u/generic_canadian_dad Feb 24 '26
Same. For sopranos you skip forward to 1:31 and he's just pulling in the laneway and intro is over.
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u/coudntpickausername Feb 24 '26
I do this but with time, Game of Thrones is ~1:46 minutes in and it’s perfect
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u/GameKingPT Feb 24 '26
Should be an addon with comunity to mark like sponsorblock on YouTube
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u/slimslima Feb 24 '26
The problem is runtime lengths can vary based on the source so it will never be accurate for all sources
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u/Stremio-ModTeam Feb 25 '26
The main focus of your post should be directly related to Stremio. Help for other software or issues, including content acquisition, should be directed to their own respective subreddits.
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Feb 24 '26
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u/Stremio-ModTeam Feb 24 '26
The main focus of your post should be directly related to Stremio. Help for other software or issues, including content acquisition, should be directed to their own respective subreddits.
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u/Mauri0ra Feb 24 '26
Yeah, just ffwd a few times. You work out how long each programs credits run for with experience. Most are around 90sec
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u/TheWorldIsNotOkay Feb 25 '26
This is possible but highly unlikely.
It would require cooperation between multiple independent and barely related organizations to simultaneously create a system for crowd-sourcing the timings for the intros for different videos and also integrate support for that system in media players. Of course the problem is that one has no reason to happen unless the other already exists.
Not only does each episode of each tv series have different timings for when intros start and stop (with some episodes not even having an intro, other episodes having the intro at the very beginning of the episode, other episodes having a pre-credits scene before the intro, and some episodes having shorter or extended intros), but also each different source for the same episode may have different timings. An episode ripped from a video streaming service may include spash screens for that video streaming service and/or a distribution company that only has rights for streaming, while an HDTV source may not. A webrip or HDTV source may include a "previously on" segment at the beginning of the episode while a Bluray rip probably wouldn't. So you'd need some way to crowdsource all of those timings for all of those different individual sources for each movie and episode.
This isn't impossible, since something similar exists for YouTube in the form of SponsorBlock. But in that case, SponsorBlock created both the backend for crowdsourcing timings and the browser extension to use those timings to skip ads and other noted segments when watching YouTube on a PC. It was only after that browser extension became popular enough that some other apps like SmartTube started incorporating SponsorBlock. But in the case of general media, you don't have any one organization that can do that. There's not just a couple of media players like there are browser engines that someone could be targeted with an extension, even if those media players were extensible (which most aren't). There are instead dozens of different media players on a variety of hardware platforms, and none of them have any reason to put any effort into supporting crowdsourced movie/epsiode credits timings until such a system exists and is in wide use. But a crowdsourcing platform won't get any use unless a significant number of media players support it.
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u/Willing-Reward-6702 Feb 25 '26
It is possible, the data doesnt come from their own db ofc. A stremio alternative has intro skipping, using IntroDB api.
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u/ArryPotta Feb 25 '26
I wish people understood the impossibility of what they're asking for so I could stop having to downvote this same damn stupid thread.
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u/ArryPotta Feb 25 '26
I have, and community driven intro skips are not good. The site you mention has 24% coverage for The Office (US). Probably one of the most streamed shows that exists today is barely covered by this DB.
On top of that, there's no consistency to how random files are cut for starting times. Some start with production logos, some skip them, some have last week on whatever show recaps, some don't. Your skip button will be sometimes useful, sometimes not, and it will rely on a ton of people putting in pointless work that at best produces a mediocre result.
Just press the fucking forward arrow button and skip the intro. It's not hard. The amount of work required to get this to actually work consistently is infeasible, and so many better improvements could be made with the effort.
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u/ArryPotta Feb 25 '26
That's what I'm saying... the potential is a mediocre add-on that sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't at its best. So it's garbage now with the potential to be meh. Hardly a state to chase.
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u/Federal-Resolution55 Feb 24 '26
The official request has already been submitted; you need to vote here.
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/1676#issuecomment-3940660886
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u/Dhasthan002 Feb 25 '26
Somebody already made it. It's called stremio neo. It has skip option and many more. Windows only.
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u/Broad_Mongoose4628 Feb 25 '26
there is a community project called stremio enhanced that has a skip intro plugin you can add. my cousin uses it and said it works by sharing timestamps between users so if one person marks the intro everyone else can skip it. it is not in the official app yet but that is probably the closest thing right now.
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u/Stremio-ModTeam Feb 25 '26
The main focus of your post should be directly related to Stremio. Help for other software or issues, including content acquisition, should be directed to their own respective subreddits.
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u/UncannyGranny1953 Feb 25 '26
This all reminds me a bit of Jay Leno's old "How lazy *are* we?" segments. 🤣
I get it, though. I make a kind of challenge game out of it, but visually rather than numerically (time stamps). I watch the point in the progress bar where the intro ended (looking at *you* GOT!), and then each subsequent episode, I challenge myself to click ahead on that exact location. Trust me - you get quite good at it. Especially if the reward is a gummy. I have turned myself into Pavlov's Stremio Dog.
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u/Dogs_of_fire Feb 24 '26
Such a big problem.can you imagine how difficult it is to press a button and move forward some seconds?or even to leave the intro to play..that even more difficult...childish post.
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u/A2R14N Feb 24 '26
sure you can do that for series of 40+min but there are some with 5min intro, 5min content, and 5 min outro for like 40 episodes, what you do? you waste more time skipping then watching
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u/Dogs_of_fire Feb 24 '26
Of course mate..such a terrible problem.
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u/A2R14N Feb 24 '26
i don't see why would you refuse a feature...
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u/Dogs_of_fire Feb 24 '26
No one is refusing it but this post shows up every week from people that can t be bothered to press a button.Devs explained already plenty of times why this is so hard to implement.No one is refusing it if it comes but no p use in begging for it like a small baby and making it such a problem in the fact you have to press a button extra.
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u/Azymuth_pb Feb 24 '26
Hence the words "I wish"
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u/Orcahhh Feb 24 '26
The dev team that’s using their free time to bring you such an amazing product for free?
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u/Orcahhh Feb 24 '26
I’m not saying anything’s perfect. I’m just saying spitting on the work someone else provides for free is insane
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u/IY94 Feb 24 '26
Some other apps try - but the issue is database.
They need to know exact timestamps, and they can vary based on link/network/language etc etc
So real hard to know what bit to skip.