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?

From what I’ve read, it will eventually apply to old recordings, but I don’t know if it can be forced. So, PMS will get around to it at some point while running scheduled tasks.

I’ve installed the update that includes 3rd option to mark commercials and skip on new recordings and set that as my default DVR setting. After watching a few recordings, I can confirm that recordings that took place prior to this update now have “skip ads” when watching. So some process went back…

Does it only add commercial markers to old Plex recordings? What about recordings from elsewhere like TiVo? I’ve used the 3rd option to mark commercials, but I’m not seeing “skip ads” when I attempt to play and there are no commercial marks in the XML file for my TiVo recordings. It seems to be igno…

It happens during Scheduled Tasks provided you edit the advanced settings of the TV Shows library and set Ad detection to “For all items” . I would only do this if your DVR DETECT COMMERCIAL settings were set to “Detect commercials and mark for skip”.

Interesting. I’ll check it again tomorrow. After I set it and saved, I see it scanning the shows in the activity button, so it seems it should be tagging them. But, I’ll check tomorrow. Thanks.

No luck. Scheduled tasks ran last night, but no commercial markings were added to the old recordings. Anyone else having luck getting commercial marks added to old recordings from other DVR’s?

Are the Tivo files in .ts containers? Check the log files to see if the comskip operation is being run and maybe failing.

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.

Apply commercial skipping to existing recordings?

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GeoffGo December 2, 2020, 2:49pm 6

Thank you! I’m a recent Plex Pass user and was struggling with this also. Not easily found, but it is there at the bottom.

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