Editing Software for Plex DVR Files?

General Discussions
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Anybody else here use editing software to remove the commercials from Plex DVR recordings?

I’ve been using VideoRedo for editing over the air recordings for years, but it sometimes doesn’t like the mp4 ts files from Plex DVR.

Wondering what editing software other people use and how well it works for them?

Thanks!

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I think that the Plex DVR uses Comskip (www.comskip.org) and it does a great job. The fact it doesn’t have a nice Windows user interface may be too much for some but so far the Plex DVR has done a super job with it, if this is indeed what it uses.

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@rsimandl said:
Anybody else here use editing software to remove the commercials from Plex DVR recordings?

I’ve been using VideoRedo for editing over the air recordings for years, but it sometimes doesn’t like the mp4 ts files from Plex DVR.

Wondering what editing software other people use and how well it works for them?

Thanks!

VideoReDo is a wonderful thing… for MPEG-2 streams.
It won’t work with anything else. Not very well anyway - but you already know that.
If you want to edit stuff - record MPEG-2 Video Streams and put VideoReDo on the case.

There is no frame accurate editing for H264 that I’m aware of. It’s the Hand Grenade Approach - pull the pin, toss it in, and hope for the best.

Comskip works as well as Comskip can. It ain’t bad, but it ain’t perfect frame accurate manual editing. Comskip isn’t any better or worse with Plex DVR than it is with anything else. With Comskip you pull the pin, toss it in, and hope for the best…

B)

You can fiddle with the Comskip.ini file, but it’s still a Hand Grenade.

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Well, scratch TmpGenc Smart Renderer v4 (admittedly not the current version) even though it supposedly reencodes only the edit points just like VideoRedo. No matter what settings I use, it reencodes the entire file (1080i Blue Bloods episode). Fastest I can get it to work is 19 minutes and quality sucks at those settings. VideoRedo got this done in less than a minute.

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Yep - with an MPEG-2 video stream VideoReDo just remuxes the edits into a perfectly constructed and edited file. Freakin’ Amazing (VideoReDo TV Suite 5 user - for many years - best $95 I EVER spent).

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Yeah, looking for something that will do that with the MPEG-4 TS files that Plex DVR makes. VideoRedo usually can handle it, but sometimes pukes on MPEG-4 TS files. Especially ones from the dinky little 480i subchannels (I’m looking at YOU, Cozi TV).

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Well, the newest TMPGenc Smart Renderer 5 works perfectly on the mp4 files generated by the Tablo DVR and on Archivo mp4 files from my TiVo – only reencodes the edit points and just fast copies the rest of the file.

But on the TS files from Plex DVR, it reencodes the entire file.

So I get the feeling the Plex DVR TS files are the problem, not the editing software?