Easy way to remove commercials?

john.scalfani · June 7, 2017, 12:36pm

So I set up everything last night and the dual tuner is working incredible. Records and plays tv perfectly. My question is about commercials in recorded files. There is roughly 6-8 minutes of commercials per 30 minute tv slot. This can add up to a lot of used space on your hard drive. Is there any easy or one click solutions to remove commercials from recordings? I know there are some other screen capture software that can do this automatically.

serverlink09 · June 7, 2017, 12:45pm

there is a post in the forums w/ a guide to do so with windows, however it requires some tuning. But the jist of it is MCEBuddy and comskip (both premium versions). I use it and it works pretty well.

JasonM · June 7, 2017, 12:59pm

@john.scalfani said:
Is there any easy or one click solutions to remove commercials from recordings?

The ‘real’ answer (such as it is…) is to get deaks to update his codebase for the Chapter Metadata Agent to work with TV Shows, and then there will no longer have to be any use of 3rd party cutting tools.

Chapter Metadata Agent

tripflex · June 7, 2017, 4:43pm

Here’s a gist of some linux shell commands to handle this … haven’t had a chance to set it up yet myself (as i’m dealing with getting the HDHomeRun to work correctly), but this is a good starting point:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/tripflex/969f9c8ddbde14f1c5029b2b65638af1

post.sh

#!/bin/csh
# Add bash path to Plex path.
set path = ($path /usr/local/bin)
# Sleep for a pseudorandom period (up to 10 seconds) to limit the number of instances that start at once
sleep `echo $$%10 | bc`
/root/comchap/comcut --ffmpeg=/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg --comskip=/root/comskip/comskip --lockfile=/tmp/comchap.lock --comskip-ini=/usr/local/etc/comskip.ini "$1"
HandBrakeCLI -i "$1" -o "$1".mkv --format mkv --encoder x264 --quality 20 --loose-anamorphic --decomb fast --x264-preset fast --h264-profile high --h264-level 4.1
find /mnt -name "*.ts" -not -path "*/\.*" -delete

Here’s a forum discussing this:

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Remove commercials from all files in the DVR folder Feature Suggestions	5	239	June 10, 2021
Confused, two ways to skip commercials? Plex Features livetv-dvr	5	2417	January 9, 2020
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Skip Commercials Feature Suggestions	7	106	June 10, 2021

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