Server Version#: 1.25.2.5319
Player Version#: Plex Web
Tuner Make/Model: HDHomne
Guide/Lineup name: Guide
Using XMLTV?: OTA
Channel number/Name: All
OS Server: Raspberry Pi Buster 32 bit
Hardware: Pi4 4GB
Lifetime Plex Pass
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can help me.
I am unable to get the commercial skipping to work. I wonder if i am the only one? The error i get is:
“Unsupported codec!
Could not open video codec”
Normally I write my .ts files to an SMB share but for speed I copied one locally to produce the below as I had seen somewhere that SMB could be the issue (it isn’t I don’t think).
Somethings to consider -
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I did this on a fresh install of the OS, with just plex installed from the website.
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The Raspberry Pi 4 does not support hardware mpeg2 decoding, you can’t get a license it just says use software and it will be fine - and its true I can playback mpeg2 stuff fine in plex using android or the web service with transcoding all running fine — HOWEVER I wonder if this is why Comskip/Plex Commercial Skipper/FFMPEG is throwing a wobbly because its trying to use mpeg2_mmal ??? - Just a guess.
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It also doesn’t work on a h264 mp4 file either (same file but transcoded with ffmpeg before hand to aac & h264)… So maybe tha blows the mpeg2_mmal idea out the window?
Any thoughts, help or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.
Log/Terminal output below.
Running Plex Commercial Skipper
sudo ./Plex\ Commercial\ Skipper /home/pi/Downloads/output.ts --ini="/var/lib/plexmedias erver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini"
Plex Commercial Skipper, made using ffmpeg
Donator build
The commandline used was:
"./Plex Commercial Skipper"
/home/pi/Downloads/output.ts
"--ini=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini"
Setting ini file to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini as per commandline
Using /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini for initiation values.
Mpeg: /home/pi/Downloads/output.ts
Exe comskip.exe
Logo: /home/pi/Downloads/output.logo.txt
Ini: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini
Detection Methods to be used:
1) Black Frame
2) Logo - Give up after 2000 seconds
3) Resolution Change
4) Aspect Ratio
ComSkip throttles back from -0001 to -0001.
The time is now 1700 so it's full speed ahead!
Settings
--------
[Main Settings]
;the sum of the values for which kind of frames comskip will consider as possible cutpoints: 1=uniform (black or any other co lor) frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=resolution change, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 255=all.
detect_method=43
;Set to 10 to show a lot of extra info, level 5 is also OK, set to 0 to disable
verbose=10
;Frame not black if any of the pixels of the frame has a brightness greater than this (scale 0 to 255)
max_brightness=60
maxbright=1
;Frame not pure black if a small number of the pixels of the frame has a brightness greater than this. To decide if the frame is truly black, comskip will also check average brightness (scale 0 to 255)
test_brightness=40
;
max_avg_brightness=25
;
max_commercialbreak=600
;
min_commercialbreak=25
;
max_commercial_size=125
;
min_commercial_size=4
;
min_show_segment_length=250
;
max_volume=500
;
max_silence=100
;
non_uniformity=500
[Detailed Settings]
min_silence=12
remove_silent_segments=0
noise_level=5
brightness_jump=200
fps=22
validate_silence=1
validate_uniform=1
validate_scenechange=1
global_threshold=1.05
disable_heuristics=4
cut_on_ac_change=1
[CPU Load Reduction]
thread_count=2
hardware_decode=0
play_nice_start=-1
play_nice_end=-1
play_nice_sleep=2
[Input Correction]
max_repair_size=200
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=40
lowres=0
skip_b_frames=0
[Aspect Ratio]
ar_delta=0.08
cut_on_ar_change=1
[Global Removes]
padding=0
remove_before=0
remove_after=0
added_recording=14
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0
delete_show_before_first_commercial=0
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0
delete_block_after_commercial=0
min_commercial_break_at_start_or_end=39
always_keep_first_seconds=0
always_keep_last_seconds=0
[USA Specific]
intelligent_brightness=0
black_percentile=0.0076
uniform_percentile=0.003
score_percentile=0.71
[Main Scoring]
length_strict_modifier=3
length_nonstrict_modifier=1.5
combined_length_strict_modifier=2
combined_length_nonstrict_modifier=1.25
ar_wrong_modifier=2
ac_wrong_modifier=1
excessive_length_modifier=0.01
dark_block_modifier=0.3
min_schange_modifier=0.5
max_schange_modifier=2
logo_present_modifier=0.01
punish_no_logo=1
[Detailed Scoring]
punish=0
reward=0
punish_threshold=1.3
punish_modifier=2
reward_modifier=0.5
[Logo Finding]
border=10
give_up_logo_search=2000
delay_logo_search=0
logo_max_percentage_of_screen=0.12
ticker_tape=0
ticker_tape_percentage=0
ignore_side=0
ignore_left_side=0
ignore_right_side=0
subtitles=0
logo_at_bottom=0
logo_threshold=0.75
logo_percentage_threshold=0.25
logo_filter=0
aggressive_logo_rejection=0
edge_level_threshold=5
edge_radius=2
edge_weight=10
edge_step=1
num_logo_buffers=50
use_existing_logo_file=1
two_pass_logo=1
[Logo Interpretation]
connect_blocks_with_logo=1
logo_percentile=0.92
logo_fraction=0.4
shrink_logo=5
shrink_logo_tail=0
before_logo=0
after_logo=0
where_logo=0
min_black_frames_for_break=1
[Closed Captioning]
ccCheck=0
cc_commercial_type_modifier=4
cc_wrong_type_modifier=2
cc_correct_type_modifier=0.75
[Live TV]
live_tv=0
live_tv_retries=4
require_div5=0
div5_tolerance=-1
incommercial_frames=1000
[Output Control]
output_default=1
output_chapters=0
output_plist_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_scf=0
output_vcf=0
output_vdr=0
output_projectx=0
output_avisynth=0
output_videoredo=0
output_videoredo3=0
videoredo_offset=2
output_btv=0
output_edl=1
output_live=0
edl_offset=0
timeline_repair=1
edl_skip_field=0
output_edlp=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_edlx=0
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_womble=0
output_mls=0
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrmstb=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_ipodchap=0
output_framearray=0
output_debugwindow=0
output_tuning=0
output_training=0
output_false=0
output_aspect=0
output_demux=0
output_data=0
output_srt=0
output_smi=0
output_timing=0
output_incommercial=0
output_ffmeta=0
output_ffsplit=0
delete_logo_file=0
output_mkvtoolnix=0
cutscene_frame=0
cutscene_threshold=10
windowtitle=""Comskip - %s""
cuttermaran_options=""cut=\""true\"" unattended=\""true\"" muxResult=\""false\"" snapToCutPoints=\""true\"" closeApp=\""true\""""
mpeg2schnitt_options=""mpeg2schnitt.exe /S /E /R25 /Z %2 %1""
avisynth_options=""LoadPlugin(\""MPEG2Dec3.dll\"") \nMPEG2Source(\""%s\"")\n""
dvrcut_options=""dvrcut \""%s.dvr-ms\"" \""%s_clean.dvr-ms\"" ""
[Sage Workarounds]
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
enable_mencoder_pts=0
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] start time for stream 2 is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] start time for stream 4 is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] PES packet size mismatch
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] Packet corrupt (stream = 1, dts = 2567819568).
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] stream 2 : no TS found at start of file, duration not set
[mpegts @ 0xb5521800] Could not find codec parameters for stream 2 (Audio: mp3 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 0 channels): unspecif ied frame size
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
Input #0, mpegts, from '/home/pi/Downloads/output.ts':
Duration: 01:01:37.54, start: 24834.272533, bitrate: 2127 kb/s
Program 1
Metadata:
service_name : Dave
service_provider:
Stream #0:0[0x191]: Video: mpeg2video ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), none(top first), 544x576 [SAR 32:17 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x192](eng): Audio: mp2 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #0:2[0x194](eng): Audio: mp3 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 0 channels (visual impaired) (descriptions) (dependent)
Stream #0:3[0x193](eng): Subtitle: dvb_subtitle ([6][0][0][0] / 0x0006)
No Program
Stream #0:4[0x12]: Data: epg
Unsupported codec!
Could not open video codec**
/home/pi/Downloads/output.ts: could not open video codec
Echo of Variables Set - because I saw somewhere that might help - it didn’t help me at least?
pi@plex:/lib/plexmediaserver $ echo $EAE_ROOT
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Codecs/EasyAudioEncoder-1625-linux-armv7neon/
pi@plex:/lib/plexmediaserver $ echo $FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Codecs/fb9eae3-4185-linux-armv7neon/
FFMPEG2 Codecs Grep for mpeg2 - Its the most up to date via apt… =/
pi@plex:/lib/plexmediaserver $ ffmpeg -hide_banner -codecs | grep mpeg2 DEV.L. mpeg2video MPEG-2 video (decoders: mpeg2video mpegvideo mpeg2_mmal mpeg2_v4l2m2m ) (encoders: mpeg2video mpeg2_vaapi )
Running Plex Commercial Skipper on the *.mp4 file (removed the ini file output becaues its just a repeat of above for the *.ts)
The commandline used was:
"./Plex Commercial Skipper"
/home/pi/Downloads/output.mp4
"--ini=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini"
Setting ini file to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini as per commandline
Using /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini for initiation values.
Mpeg: /home/pi/Downloads/output.mp4
Exe comskip.exe
Logo: /home/pi/Downloads/output.logo.txt
Ini: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini
Detection Methods to be used:
1) Black Frame
2) Logo - Give up after 2000 seconds
3) Resolution Change
4) Aspect Ratio
ComSkip throttles back from -0001 to -0001.
The time is now 2033 so it's full speed ahead!
Settings
--------
SETTINGS START
CONTENT HERE REMOVED AS ITS THE SAME AS FOR THE *.TS
SETTINGS END
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/pi/Downloads/output.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf58.76.100
Duration: 01:01:37.52, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1361 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), none, 544x576, 1228 kb/s, SAR 32:17 DAR 16:9, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 12800 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
vendor_id : [0][0][0][0]
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 126 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : SoundHandler
vendor_id : [0][0][0][0]
Could not open video codec
