How do streaming services determine the right time to show the “Skip Intro” and “Next Episode” buttons during an episode?
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They are manually input into the meta data
Each episode is a specific video file, and that file has an associated text file, often an XML that has a lot of lines in it that tell the system what to do. Such as the date/time to make the content available, it’s length, the format(s), episode names/numbers, and such. Within this is also values for stuff like these you’re asking.
Not every streamer or service does it the same as absolutely nothing is uniform or standard in the steaming world, but it generally pretty simple like this with just an XML file with whatever info they need in there to fill in the blanks.
A person creates these files and values manually They literally will write a line like “start next episode: 28:74”. They figure out when the time to show this stuff is. Not automated.
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