I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this anywhere: I’ve been using MCEBuddy/Comskip (donate version) to remove ads for some time and it works fine. Is the native Plex feature better in any way, the same or worse? Just deciding whether to switch it on or stick with what I have.
Check out the support article on this topic: Removing Commercials
Plex is using comskip under the hood, down at the very bottom of that article it tells you where you can find the comskip.ini file as well.
@nblackmore said:
I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this anywhere: I’ve been using MCEBuddy/Comskip (donate version) to remove ads for some time and it works fine. Is the native Plex feature better in any way, the same or worse? Just deciding whether to switch it on or stick with what I have.
The “Plex Commercial Skipper” is comskip renamed. However, at least on the UBUNTU 64 bit version of PLEX, comskip is an out of date version that was updated with bug fixes in Sept, 2017. I don’t run the Windows version of PLEX so I don’t know if the Windows version of Plex Commercial Skipper is newer than the Ubuntu version. Comskip has been unreliable on my installation. It would seem that on Windows, dropping in the latest comskip.exe would update Plex to the latest version. For LINUX, it would need to be built from source code.
