Commercial Zapper SLOW

Server Version#: 1.20.0.3125
Tuner Make/Model: HDHR Prime

Running an eight core Xeon server with RAM a’plenty. A one hour broadcast takes 15 minutes to finish comskip processing. I would be happy to dedicate more server resources to speed up the process. Is this possible?

Thanks,

J&L

I’ve asked this question twice now with no replies. Did I ask in the wrong forum or in the wrong way?

Plex uses comskip for commercial removal, and you can customize comskip by providing a custom comskip.ini. (Scroll down to “Customizing How Commercials are Located and Removed”).

I’m reading that your HDHR prime outputs mpeg2 while I’m commercial skipping h.264, so I don’t have specific experience with your environment. A quick review of comskip available settings suggests that you may want to experiment with the settings for thread_count, hardware_decode (don’t know if you have or are using a GPU), and lowres (possibly lowres=10 for mpeg2 I read…)

This is also a good thread on custom comskip.ini settings.

I tried the linked comskip.ini add I’ll let you know if the processing time improves.

Thank you

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