Is there a way to specify a com skip file per show, as the “catch all” one I have doesn’t work for certain shows.
Only way I can think of is to have the post-processing script parse out the name of the show against a list within the script to determine which comskip.ini file will be used. You would have to maintain the list of shows within the post-processing script and default back to a comskip.ini when no match is found.
You will either need to determine in your post processing script as @robertclemens mentioned or if you are using mcebuddy it has a setting that can be used to determine which mcebuddy configuration to use and each configuration for mcebuddy can specify different comskip.ini files.
I grab the show name as a part of my script. I do this using a simple whitelist/blacklist approach, if a string in a text file matches the parameter Plex passes I perform the action. For example, I have “BBC World News” in the “skip processing” bucket since there are no commercials.
A better way would be to dig into the SQL using the .grab folder which could net you some additional information you can key off of.
@robertclemens said:
Only way I can think of is to have the post-processing script parse out the name of the show against a list within the script to determine which comskip.ini file will be used. You would have to maintain the list of shows within the post-processing script and default back to a comskip.ini when no match is found.
This is what I do, I also have separate settings included in my script to check whether or not the channel is broadcast in 1080i and to de-interlace when it converts to x264 during processing. I currently have all the shows grouped by channel for comskip, but am only using 1 config.The next step would be adding in an extra step to select the config file to pass through based on the show title. I just haven’t had the time to mess with the actual comskip tuning per show to try to clean up the cutting. In the meantime I am just marking chapters to see if the config is pretty close to cutting accurately.
Could you share your comskip.ini file?
