Server Version#: 1.41.3.9314
I was so excited when Plex added the ad detection capability for non Live TV & DVR shows and movies. But it seems I couldn’t get it to work.
But while working on an unrelated issue I saw multiple messages from Plex in my syslog. So I finally got back to the ad detection problem and found the following:
I’m seeing this with sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Commercial Skipper”
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: --ini=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/comskip.ini
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: “–output=/mnt/Plex/Channels/TV/Only Murders in the Building”
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: -t
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: --quiet
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: “/mnt/Plex/Channels/TV/Only Murders in the Building/Only Murders in the Building S02E10 I Know Who Did It 2025-01-23-2210.mpg”
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: Setting ini file to /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/comskip.ini as per commandline
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: Using /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/comskip.ini for initiation values.
Jan 24 00:07:15 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[12883]: Auto selecting the PID.
2025-01-19T00:03:13.724474-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13328]: Auto selecting the PID.
And this in syslog
2025-01-19T00:03:13.743526-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: Plex Commercial Skipper, made using ffmpeg
2025-01-19T00:03:13.743739-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: Donator build
2025-01-19T00:03:13.743811-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: The commandline used was:
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816145-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: Permission denied - could not create file /mnt/Plex/Channels/TV/Only Murders in the Building/Only Murders in the Building S01E04 The Sting 2024-01-09-2058.txt
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816305-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011"/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Commercial Skipper"
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816377-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011–ini=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/comskip.ini
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816438-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011"–output=/mnt/Plex/Channels/TV/Only Murders in the Building"
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816531-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011-t
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816626-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011–quiet
2025-01-19T00:03:13.816684-08:00 Pi-Hole Plex Media Server[13329]: #011"/mnt/Plex/Channels/TV/Only Murders in the Building/Only Murders in the Building S01E04 The Sting 2024-01-09-2058.mpg"
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It seems that Plex is unable to create a file on the TrueNAS server that hosts all my videos, but it has no trouble reading files on the same server. I’m not sure why this is, but I’m leaning towards the fact that the Plex user that Plex runs under is a nologin users or maybe because the Plex user has no password. I’ve spent several hours going down many rabbit holes and reading many outdated posts on different sites without any luck getting this to work. Some of my assumptions are based on the fact that Channels DVR is able to create all kinds of files in the same TrueNAS directories and is running as administrator (the only user I’ve created on the pc hosting Plex and Channels DVR).
I’m very reluctant to customize Plex to get Ad Detection to work. All I see doing this is future problems.
I’d appreciate any and all help to get this working, otherwise Plex is running fine and providing us with all kinds of enjoyment.
