Having a similar issue here - Plex is not finding the commercials … and I do have the settings enabled, and there are commercials 
. I have used my own script in the past, was thinking it would be nice to use the embedded one - but is it really not working at all? Has anyone been able to get it to work?
Thanks!
OK, I manually ran comskip, from my older script => commercials detected (same video file ), but not sure how to use the output (or if the EDL output is in the correct format). Does anyone know … just put the EDL file in the same directory? I admit, also not sure how this shows up in various players 
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Thanks!
+1 if Plex is able to use EDL files with the same name and location of the video file could be used to update the commercial markers XML. In the case that users are already generating them, it would be a quicker detection process than evaluating the file multiple times
So I’m in the same boat. I’ve set up a few test recordings and I’m not getting the option to skip commercials at all. I’ve made sure all settings are correct. Is this an issue with Plex or is it operator error somehow?
The ability to skip detected commercials in recorded content is supported in the following player apps:
We’ll continue working to bring support to additional platforms in the future.
I like that list! But I can say, it’s not currently working - tested on Web, Windows (desktop) and Roku
To the questions above, is it possible to post-generate an EDL to make this work?
Thanks!
No, it scans and stores the info as part of the file xml.
Hmmm … OK, that makes sense, but how to re-scan then, given that it didn’t work when recording?
Thanks.
We need a button for this.
I tried Plex Dance, it recreated the intro scan but didn’t process commercials.
I tried extracting the command for the commercial scan, it created the EDL but I haven’t succeeded in writing the information to the database.
Agreed! Painful, I have to say.
And I manually ran my own comskip, got an EDL file … but not sure what to do with it 
Exactly. Being able to feed an existing EDL into Plex would be great without having to rescan the file. While Plex recognizes the commercial-based, chapter marks I create in the MP4, they don’t work with the skip process.
I am having the same issue. This feature used to work and now it does not. I am using the Apple TV payer as well as the Firestick App player.
+1 for support for EDL, this would be a great addition to Plex
If you are on version Plex Media Server 1.20.4+ , you can set the library to perform the detection and mark for skip. Be warned that it happens during the maintenance window so the server will be busy for a couple of days if you have a lot of files.
Right, but if we’ve already done the detection, it’d be wonderful if Plex would either use the existing chapter markers in the MP4 and/or incorporate an EDL. for the skip process.
@pl_5309 are you saying that you can force Plex to go back and rescan all our files? Where is that option? I can’t seem to find it.
I set the Ad detection to “For all items” in the advanced settings of my TV Shows and then did the very much not recommended Plex Danced my whole library. At first all that happened was intro detection then the scheduled task window hit and it started comskiping all the files one at a time.
Since I didn’t try just changing the Ad detection to “For all items” and waiting till the next day or changing the scheduled task window I can’t answer if that would of been enough to generate the comskip xml. If it isn’t, Plex dancing the files a little at a time will queue them up for the scheduled tasks.
Looking at my Library settings I have intro scan set to “as a scheduled task and when media is added” so that explains why that happened immediately. If I were to do it again I would change everything to a scheduled task.
You shouldn’t have needed to Plex Dance stuff, it should just happen as a scheduled task and gradually analyse all the content.
Will force Analyse work for TV Library?
Uhhh, I’m not sure honestly 
