The Comskip author has a bunch of good starting point ini’s - check out http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=d12fd3d73506de7906f72b6112cc4de9
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For the life of me, I can’t find the .ini file anywhere. I have a Synology DS218+ and have looked in /volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support but I don’t see a Resources folder anywhere.
It should be in the Plex Media Server directory beneath it:
/Volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/
Ok I guess I had misunderstood at first. I unpacked the app, edited the ini file, and then on my synology I went to Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server and created a DVR folder and uploaded the new ini. That’s it right? It should now automatically use that with me having to make no changes?
So that is where you will need to place your custom INI file. To retrieve the original file you will need to use SSH to copy the file to that location. Go ahead and create a folder named DVR in
/Volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/
Then use SSH as admin to run the following command to copy the file:
scp /Volume1/@appstore/Plex Media Server/Resources/comskip.ini /Volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini
See the bottom section of this support article:
Yea, I’m done with Commercial Deletion. Brooklyn Nine-Nine recording was horrible tonight. Cut out content 3 times in-between commercial breaks. No signal loss, no weather maps or alerts, just went haywire deleting stuff.
Are there any better edits to comskip? Because after I edited it, it truly just straight up sucked awful. I don’t know if it saw JK Simmons on Brooklyn 99 and thought it was a farmer’s commercial or what, but it was absolutely dreadful. I’d be all in on Plex if they would just do the simple thing of marking where it thinks commercials are instead of removing them.
I’ve been in direct contact with Plex employees on this (they even had me and others run custom builds of Commercial Skipper). What they’re not good at is communicating what the current state is.
Lots of good info on the commercial skipper problem in this thread: Commercial Skipping is broken starting in 1.18.6.2368
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Commercial skipping is hard - unfortunately, I don’t think there are any alternatives to Comskip anymore (ShowAnalyzer is just gone).
The Comskip forums have a bunch of good INIs to start from. In my experience, it’s unintuitive to know how the many comskip options play with each other - the starting points are super helpul in that regard. The links to those country specific INIs are here: http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=39f26ef0477d5668e549c89f83c4c1db
As Plex introduced “Intro skipping”, and with Plex DVR feature refusing to die, I really would like to see a “commercial skipping” feature in their players.
I am not able to find comskip.ini on my Nvidia Shield, any hints?
Is there any way to have Comskip do this non-destructively? Is there a way to have options for skipping the intro and/or commercials with a press of the button? Say, a popup that says “skip ahead” or something. I know that comskip has the option of outputting a csv file with timestamps for other programs to use to remove commercials (I’m assuming that Plex uses it to do the removing in a similar way), perhaps that could be used to give a skip option.
In this way, even if it doesn’t work properly, it wouldn’t remove any of the program and it would still be watchable.
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@ChantalS: A feature request to do just that is here so you can vote for it.
I do see hope that this has gotten some attention since the intro skip does non-destructive identification and skipping, and in the last couple of months they changed the “Remove Commercials” option from a check box to a drop down - perhaps to allow that third option in the future.
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Hi, I never found the directory the comskip.ini file should go on my Unraid Tower. I’m running the binhex-plex docker but couldn’t find the spot in that directory. I also tried using it again and saw it created a auto-comskip folder, should it go in there somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated!
you need to create the DVR folder in your plex appdata folder. It is not a default folder. I am not sure what it is for binhex-plex docker, I am guessing someone like @TeknoJunky or @ChuckPa could help with that.
Where do you have /config mapped for your container? Whatever directory it is, you should have /Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ in it. This is where you’d create the DVR directory, and place your custom comskip.ini within.
So if, for example, you have /config mapped to /mnt/plexdata on the host, the following path should already exist:
/mnt/plexdata/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/
Create the DVR directory beneath it.
Okay thanks guys. Never actually mapped a /config (there wasn’t one to) setting in the docker setup but think I found it. Does that look like the right spot?
Yes, that looks correct. Though I’m not sure why you have a Plex Media Server folder within your Plex Media Server folder. That’s a bit strange.
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That confused me too haha, and why I asked. This is what’s inside it. Don’t know why it’s there. Think it’s safe to delete it?
Try renaming it first to see if it breaks anything. If not, it should be safe to delete. Given that nothing in it has been modified in a year and a half, it’s likely safe to whack.
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