wtf is jellyfin-plugin-local-intros-extended?

Local Intros Extended is a plugin for Jellyfin, the self-hosted media server that many people use as an alternative to Netflix for their own movie and TV collection. The plugin plays short intro videos, stored locally on your own drive, before the actual movie or episode starts, similar to a studio logo or trailer that plays before a film in a cinema. This project is a fork of the official Jellyfin Intros plugin, built by the same person who wrote the fork, and it adds a much more flexible way to decide which intro plays and when. Instead of a simple flat list of rules, it uses a rules engine where each rule is checked in order from top to bottom, and the first one that matches gets used. Each rule can also be given a percentage chance to play, so even if a rule matches, it might skip to the next one based on that probability. You can also choose whether a rule plays one random intro from its list, or plays through several intros in sequence. Rules can combine several conditions at once, such as which user is watching, which library the media lives in, its genre, tags, studio, or whether the current date or the media's original release date falls inside a chosen range. There are also separate tag fields to include or exclude certain media, useful for marking specific shows or movies as not to have an intro at all. Libraries can be filtered too, so intros can be limited to specific collections, like a kids section or an anime library, and release date filtering lets you show older-style intros for vintage films. Setting it up requires building the plugin yourself with the .NET 9.0 SDK, then copying the resulting file into a new folder inside your Jellyfin plugins directory and restarting the server. The project is released under the GPL-3.0 license and credits the original Jellyfin Intros plugin and its contributors.