Emby Cinema Intros: For a unique personalized Emby Media Server

Divitia
2 min readJun 3, 2022

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Emby cinema intros feature is similar to the Plex prerolls feature and works the same. We can choose if you want the intros to play before Movies or Episodes of shows. Emby defines it as:

Cinema Intros gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.

So now we will see how to set up cinema intros for you Emby media server.

A Custom Universal Studios Emby Pre-roll, get the video here.

Where to get them?

The playlist below will get you started:

For custom names, you can navigate to this channel or this website. So lets get to it now!

Setting Up

  1. Create a folder in a directory that Emby has access to, this can be any directory, for example right next to your libraries folders. Put all your videos in it. Don’t put the videos in your library folder themselves. Create a new folder.
Set up Emby Cinema Intros

2. Enable Cinema intros in your Emby dashboard.

3. Scroll down and mention the directory we just set up for the source of the intros.

Its done!

Breaking Emby Custom Preroll

Sources & References:

Emby Support
Priyansh Animations
Inception Trailers

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