From my understanding, Plex’s database uses a origin=“dvr” to Indicate that the video is a recording. I record videos outside Plex (via TiVo) and pull the files into Plex after I have encoded them into a smaller format. I’d LIKE to use the detect commercials for recording options… But I can’t because Plex doesn’t know they are recordings. I can detect commercials for ALL videos, but then I have the skip commercials indicator pop up on videos not pulled from the TiVo.
Since I’m already reencoding the videos with FFMPEG, is there an option or Metadata tag I can use for Plex to recognize a DVR recording? I assume there is some Metadata attached to the Plex recording/TS file with this information in it…
since you are reencoding your tv recordings anyways (like I do) I would suggest using MCEBuddy (Media Center Buddy) which will grab your recordings from your Tivo, remove the commercials using comskip (default) and then usses ffmpeg or handbrake to reencode them into a format of your choice.
The who process can be automated so only select shows get processed and then ‘sent’ to the folder you keep your Plex TV series in – or a secondary folder in which you only place DVR records in.
I’m running KMTTG on Linux that does the same thing. I can post process and remove commercials, but I find that comskip isn’t always accurate and can lead to missing show segments. If there was a way to tag the commercials as chapters, that would work too…
