intro-skipper/README.md
2024-03-09 11:00:37 -05:00

63 lines
2.5 KiB
Markdown

# Intro Skipper (beta)
<div align="center">
<img alt="Plugin Banner" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jumoog/intro-skipper/master/images/logo.png" />
</div>
Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros.
## System requirements
* Jellyfin 10.8.4 (or newer)
* Jellyfin's [fork](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg) of `ffmpeg` must be installed, version `5.0.1-5` or newer
* `jellyfin/jellyfin` 10.8.z container: preinstalled
* `linuxserver/jellyfin` 10.8.z container: preinstalled
* Debian Linux based native installs: provided by the `jellyfin-ffmpeg5` package
* MacOS native installs: build ffmpeg with chromaprint support ([instructions](#installation-instructions-for-macos))
## Introduction parameters
Show introductions will be detected if they are:
* Located within the first 25% of an episode or the first 10 minutes, whichever is smaller
* Between 15 seconds and 2 minutes long
Ending credits will be detected if they are shorter than 4 minutes.
All of these requirements can be customized as needed.
## Installation instructions
### Step 1: Install the plugin
1. Add this plugin repository to your server: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jumoog/intro-skipper/master/manifest.json`
2. Install the Intro Skipper plugin from the General section
3. Restart Jellyfin
4. OPTIONAL: Enable automatic skipping or skip button
1. Go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Intro Skipper
2. Check "Automatically skip intros" or "Show skip intro button" and click Save
5. Go to Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks -> Analyze Episodes and click the play button
6. After a season has completed analyzing, play some episodes from it and observe the results
1. Status updates are logged before analyzing each season of a show
## Installation instructions for MacOS
macOS 12 or newer can install the [portable jellyfin-ffmpeg](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg)
1. Build ffmpeg with chromaprint support using brew:
```
brew uninstall --force --ignore-dependencies ffmpeg
brew install chromaprint amiaopensource/amiaos/decklinksdk
brew tap homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-chromaprint
brew link --overwrite ffmpeg
```
2. Retrieve ffmpeg path with `whereis ffmpeg` and use this path on Jellyfin under [encoding settings](http://localhost:8096/web/index.html#!/encodingsettings.html)
3. Follow the [installation instructions](#installation-instructions) above
## Documentation
Documentation about how the API works can be found in [api.md](docs/api.md).