[REQ] Auto-skip intro of TV shows

I'd love to see a script that queries a database when you start playing a TV episode and downloads information for when the intro starts and how long it runs, it could then auto-skip the intro. When watching things back to back the intro gets rather tedious!

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be willing to give this a try myself.

Cheers!

right arrow key. most intros are 25-30seconds.

On most of the stuff I watch I either have to hit it twice and miss several seconds of content or hit it once and sit through several seconds of intro, I'd love to not have to even think about it

+1 for that. I've ripped umpteen Robot Chickens and would love to set somewhere to skip the first 30 seconds (and last 20)

I'd be happy to edit/create the nfo XML with a <startskip> and <endskip> tags with a user-definable setting if it wasn't settable through the GUI.

Hitting skip is not really an answer to the request. If you're watching back-to-back episodes the remote is not always convenient to hit skip.

A who's going to write this database?

Database? I was thinking of a per-show XML tag and then more specifically a per-episode XML tag. Actually two tags.

If the TV show is being played from start (not continued), then a <startskip> tag would tell the player to jump ahead that many seconds. Correspondingly an <endskip> tag would end the episode prematurely. The values would be user-defined. No database.

You can use EDL if you just want to do it manually.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Edit_decision_list

here is a thread about cutting credits. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=135744