With the new “Detect Commercials and mark for skip” option, is there a way I can apply that to existing recordings, or am I stuck with it only being on new recordings?

Yes, they’re in ts containers. Any suggestions on where to look in the log files? I have no idea what I’m looking at. I see FFMPEG errors “invalid frame dimension and invalid timestamps” in the Plex Media Scanner Deep Analysis log. And "Access is denied’ errors in the Plex Media Server log. I have t…

I would search all the “Plex Media Server,1,2,3,4,5.log” for comskip messages. The Plex Media Scanner.logs would tell you if the file/directory was even checked.

Hmmm, comskip doesn’t show up anywhere in my logs. I probably just need to give up unless there’s a Plex Ninja that knows what to do.

There are certainly a slug of logs. I was able to find comskip in most of the following highlighted logs. [Screenshot 2020-12-04 051720] While I have not verified success yet, I do believe the process is working for me. I am using HDHomerun and the video files are in folders one level deep in mpg…

Hmmm, I can’t figure out what’s going on then. Maybe my scheduled tasks aren’t running, cause when I looked a few minutes ago there were no updated logs from the time my scheduled tasks are supposed to start. Are you by any chance using the Plex Service?

Would need to see his logs covering scheduled task window to confirm what is going on.

Will this only work on .ts files? I convert my .ts files to MKV or MP4 and would like to be able to skip commercials in these files. I’ve found commercial removal hit or miss even after tweaking so want to leave them.

[image] mbarylski: Are you by any chance using the Plex Service? Can you define what you mean? I am using Plex on a NAS.

Apply commercial skipping to existing recordings?

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mbarylski December 4, 2020, 11:39pm 19

Ok, sorry. I should’ve said Windows. You definitely aren’t using the Plex Service, but this is the one I was referring to: PMS as a service. I have a feeling this is interfering with some scheduled tasks for me. Haven’t been able to figure out how to switch back to no service, but plan to give that a try

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Apply commercial skipping to existing recordings?

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