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Skip Intro, chapters, seek previews and the sleep timer

These come free in every Silux Media app — the web app, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android TV, Apple TV, Mac, Windows, Linux and Samsung/LG TVs. No paid pass, no plugins.
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Skip Intro and Skip Credits

When a title's opening titles or end credits are playing, a Skip Intro or Skip Credits button appears in the corner. Press it (on a TV remote, just press OK/Select). In the end credits of an episode the button becomes Next ›, which starts the next episode.

Silux Media finds intros and credits from the file's chapter names (Opening, Intro, Credits, End Credits and similar). Admins can mark them by hand — see below.

Prefer not to press anything? Turn on Skip intros automatically: in the player's More menu (web app: Settings ⚙ in the player; Apple TV: Settings tab).

Mark an intro or end credits (admins, web app)

  1. 1Play the episode or film in the web app.
  2. 2Open the player's settings (⚙) → Mark intro & credits.
  3. 3Pause where the intro starts and choose Intro starts here; then where it ends, Intro ends here. Use Credits start here for the end credits.
  4. 4For a series, tick Use for every episode of the show — one marking covers the whole show.
  5. 5Choose Save. Everyone gets the Skip button on every device straight away.

Chapters

Titles with chapters list them in the player: web app — ⚙ → Chapters (and marks on the seek bar); phones, tablets and computers — More (…) → Chapters; Apple TV — swipe down for the info panel's chapter list. Choose one to jump straight there.

Seek previews

Drag the seek bar (or hover over it on a computer) and a small picture shows where you'll land, with the time and chapter name. On Apple TV the native scrubbing thumbnails appear. Your server makes the pictures in the background the first time a title is played — a minute or two for a film.

Sleep timer

Pause after 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, or at the end of the current title (no next episode starts). Web app: ⚙ → Sleep timer. Phones, tablets and computers: More (…) → Sleep timer. Apple TV: swipe down → Sleep timer. Music and audiobooks have one in the player bar too, including End of chapter.

Rewind on resume

When you choose Resume, playback starts 5 seconds before where you stopped, so you never miss a line.

Questions

Do I need a subscription for Skip Intro?

No. Skip Intro, Skip Credits, chapters, seek previews and the sleep timer are part of the free Silux Media server and apps.

Why don't I see Skip Intro on a title?

The file has no chapter named like an intro and nobody has marked one yet. An admin can mark it once in the web app (⚙ → Mark intro & credits) — for a whole series in one go.

Do seek previews use extra data?

Very little: one small picture sheet per title, downloaded once when you start scrubbing.

Last updated 2026-11-12.