Is the PlexCommercial Skipper compatible with MP4/H264 streams ?

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Hi,

I wasn’t able to find an answer to this question in the forum, forgive me if my research was unsuccesful.

I’m an “old” plex user, but I recently take a pass, mostly to be able to watch/record TV. Living in France, nearly all broadcasts are in MP4/H264 format.
Today, I finally got my HD Homerun Connect, it works nearly alone in Plex, and I started recording. I tried the Add remover without luck. Searching trough the(limited) documentation, I think I understood that Plex did integrate an external technology to remove Add : ComSkip from kaashoek.
And on the kaashoek.com site, in the manual page, I read that :

Input files
Comskip can operate on 3 types of files. The first file type is an MPEG file. The extension must be mpg, mpeg (for mpeg Program Streams), ts (for mpeg Transport Streams) or dvr-ms for DVR-MS). Maximum resolution is 2000 by 1200 and the content must be MPEG2 video and MPEG2 or AC3 audio as recorded by most mpeg encoders.

So, I think that I cannot use that functionality ?

TIA,

Pascal
PlexMediaServer Linux 1.13 on CentOS 7. Various client : Web PC, Plex media player for Windows, RasPlex, Playstation3, Samsung TV, Android devices…

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Going furter :

If I start Plex Commercial Skipper by hand, as this :
./Plex\ Commercial\ Skipper --ini=Resources/comskip.ini test.ts

Here’s the result :

Comskip 0.81.098, made using ffmpeg
Donator build
The commandline used was:
“./Plex Commercial Skipper” --ini=Resources/comskip.ini test.ts
…
[mpegts @ 0x49e3400] start time for stream 5 is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
Input #0, mpegts, from ‘test.ts’:
Duration: 00:22:51.67, start: 1.400000, bitrate: 4683 kb/s
Program 1
Metadata:
service_name : Service01
service_provider: FFmpeg
Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), none(top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
Stream #0:10x101: Audio: eac3 ([135][0][0][0] / 0x0087), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16p, 192 kb/s
Stream #0:20x102: Audio: eac3 ([135][0][0][0] / 0x0087), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 96 kb/s
Stream #0:30x103: Audio: eac3 ([135][0][0][0] / 0x0087), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 128 kb/s
Stream #0:40x104: Subtitle: dvb_subtitle ([6][0][0][0] / 0x0006) (hearing impaired)
Stream #0:50x105: Subtitle: dvb_subtitle ([6][0][0][0] / 0x0006)
Unsupported codec!
Could not open video codec
test.ts: could not open video codec

So, definitively a codec trouble, but I would love to find a log to know exactly the command started by Plex.

Strangely, nothing in the Logs Dir.

Any Hints ?

TIA,