Plex makes it easier to skip movie and TV show credits
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#68XZB)
Plex's new Credit Detection feature uses a machine-learning algorithm to automatically gauge where a credit sequence begins and finishes. | Image: Plex Good news content bingers: Plex has just released Credits Detection, a new feature that allows users to automatically skip the credit sequences for TV shows and movies. Announced via a blog post on Wednesday, Credits Detection is now live and will display a Skip Credits button on a number of different Plex players running on Apple TV, Android TV, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Roku, and beyond.
If you're a Plex user then you may have noticed that the service already had the ability to skip intros for multi-episode shows. The new Skip Credits feature works similarly for TV shows and movies - automatically detecting where an outro or credits sequence starts and displaying an on-screen button that allows you to skip them, either directly to the...