So I know that when I’m recording live TV I can set it to detect commercials and either mark them for skip or delete them. I’d like to add some videos that come from an external DVR, that have commercials intact. Can I have Plex scan and remove the commercials automatically?
Click on the triple dot menu ... for the library containing the items, click Manage Library, then click on Edit...
Scroll to the bottom of the advanced section, and you can enable commercial detection. It looks like you can’t remove the commercials, but it should scan for and place commercial markers using this.
I have no idea when it performs the comm-skip scan though. It could be during maintenance, when you click “Analyze” on the video, or maybe when media is first added.
grazie
Once it marks them, can I get the time codes from Plex so I can manually edit the video?
I… suppose? The markers are in the Plex database, so if you know the correct calls you can retrieve them per file. But I don’t have any clue how to do that.
You can also get the Plex server to generate this info in an XML format by clicking on the triple dot ... on the video, and clicking Get Info, then the link at the bottom of this page View XML. In here are all the little bits and bobs of the metadata of the video, including all markers (intro, outro/credit, and commercials). The line you want to look for is like this (pulled from a TV episode I recorded from my TV Tuner):
<Marker id="82861" type="commercial" startTimeOffset="0" endTimeOffset="10910"> <Attributes id="82861"/>
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