Anyone else note that existing recording series have this enabled by default upon upgrading?
@serverlink09 said:
I might give this a shot vs. my MCEbuddy premium I have. My question is will this run in 64 bit like mcebuddy?
Why does 64-bit matter?
@iced98lx said:
Anyone else note that existing recording series have this enabled by default upon upgrading?
Yes, the global DVR settings has this feature disabled, but every one of my existing scheduled recordings has it enabled. I went through each one manually to disabled it.
I would think it would be more efficient running 64 bit.
@iced98lx said:
Anyone else note that existing recording series have this enabled by default upon upgrading?
I noticed that existing recordings had it set to on, despite the option being disabled by default in the main settings.
Glad I checked.
On a side note, I found the comskip ini in plex, I wonder if we can edit it like regular comskip?
I tested this on a recording this morning, it seemed to cut comercials pretty smooth, the only thing I didn’t quite like is it cut the ending of the show, which I think is a guide issue. I’ll try one later tonight and see how it does. It would be a great thing if we can specify the number of seconds rather than by minute increments to extend a show.
I’d like to see some empirical data showing they have a 100% accuracy rate before I enable it on my recordings. Sounds like the tests so far are successful. I’m wondering how they did that with Comskip which has never been 100% accurate in my own personal experience.
@rwhapham said:
If Plex is, in fact, using comskip, I hope there is an option in the future to use the actual donator version since it processes MPEG2 HD video much faster (which is what all of my US OTA broadcasts use). Unless Plex has managed to roll that version in and plan on making this PlexPass only.
To answer my own question, I ran “Plex Commercial Skipper.exe” from a command prompt, and it reports as “Comskip 0.82.003, Donator build”. So that’s good news.
@Reed97123 said:
I’d like to see some empirical data showing they have a 100% accuracy rate before I enable it on my recordings. Sounds like the tests so far are successful. I’m wondering how they did that with Comskip which has never been 100% accurate in my own personal experience.
Based on the few tests that have been run, the middle part of the show seems to be ok, but the beginning and end of the shows are getting cut. Maybe padding beginning an end will solve the issue, although it really seems like a bug that Plex needs to fix before general release. Plex also needs to fix it so it doesn’t automatically enable commercial cut for existing scheduled recordings.
I tried this feature on the young and restless today (not something I usually record BTW) and it narrowed it down to 56 minutes from 60. I don’t think that it worked as planned. I’m trying SuperWhy next…
I’ll attempt later an episode of supergirl. I added to the comskip ini in the plex directory “always_keep_last_seconds=78”.
@serverlink09 I have mine set to keep the last 300 seconds (5 minutes). Comskip kept cutting of the tail end of Big Bang Theory and the final Jeopardy question before I did this.
@rodgerzeisler said:
@serverlink09 I have mine set to keep the last 300 seconds (5 minutes). Comskip kept cutting of the tail end of Big Bang Theory and the final Jeopardy question before I did this.
I’ve ran into issues on some programs with it being longer and it will cut in the beginning of the next show.
@rodgerzeisler said:
@serverlink09 I have mine set to keep the last 300 seconds (5 minutes). Comskip kept cutting of the tail end of Big Bang Theory and the final Jeopardy question before I did this.
Do you have the ‘Minutes before start’ and ‘Minutes after end’ DVR settings set to something other than 0? I’ve found the comskip works best with some “padding” before/after the actual show; but not too much. I currently use 2 minutes for both settings and get very usable results. Typically, the worst that happens is on some networks shows roll right from one to another with no commercial break and I’ll wind up with parts of the prior and following show. But that’s better than not enough of the show I want.
EDIT: For clarification, that’s with my current setup of Plex and launching MCEBuddy/comskip via the post-processing script. I haven’t tried the Plex commercial skip yet.
Adding chapters and better chapter support on the clients (with auto commercial skip like the old Windows MCE plugin) is probably a better solution than cutting the file. At least until we can have channel-specific tunings. I already have it set up p. well with MCEBuddy. I don’t know if Comskip GUI is included, but it’s extremely helpful in tuning the commercial detection algorithm. Keeping the last 5 minutes shouldn’t be necessary and is kind of a hack.
@rthrash1 said:
Adding chapters and better chapter support on the clients (with auto commercial skip like the old Windows MCE plugin) is probably a better solution than cutting the file. At least until we can have channel-specific tunings. I already have it set up p. well with MCEBuddy. I don’t know if Comskip GUI is included, but it’s extremely helpful in tuning the commercial detection algorithm. Keeping the last 5 minutes shouldn’t be necessary and is kind of a hack.
How do you do this?
Why is this on by default on a per series basis but not global? i was surprised that it started a commercial cut on a series even though its turned off globally and cut the last 10 minutes of the show with no way to recover!
Now i have to go to every series and turn this off!!!
plex, you are ridiculous.
I’m not happy that this is turned on for existing recordings. I’d like to see the existing recording bugs have been fixed before starting to play with this. Now, I’ve got to go and turn them off for everything - especially the BBC programs which have no commercials.
@serverlink09 said:
@rthrash1 said:
Adding chapters and better chapter support on the clients (with auto commercial skip like the old Windows MCE plugin) is probably a better solution than cutting the file. At least until we can have channel-specific tunings. I already have it set up p. well with MCEBuddy. I don’t know if Comskip GUI is included, but it’s extremely helpful in tuning the commercial detection algorithm. Keeping the last 5 minutes shouldn’t be necessary and is kind of a hack.How do you do this?
Do what? Here’s a guide for setting up MCEBuddy with Plex and Comskip: Reddit - Dive into anything
If you meant tuning comskip, you can read the manual here: Tuning Comskip
@AeroR1 said:
Why is this on by default on a per series basis but not global? i was surprised that it started a commercial cut on a series even though its turned off globally and cut the last 10 minutes of the show with no way to recover!Now i have to go to every series and turn this off!!!
plex, you are ridiculous.
Thanks, went through and turned it off for all of the series. This is probably going to make some people upset when they’re missing chunks of shows…
