Server Version#: 1.25.8.5663 Player Version#: N/A Does anyone know how to get rid of existing ad markers that were created when a show was first recorded? If you’ve manually edited the video file and removed the commercials, but then go back and watch the show, you’ll see the little “Skip Ads” bu…

You would have to turn off commercial detection and Plex dance the file to remove the metadata.

I had already disabled commercial detection for the recording prior to posting. Lovely. I was hoping this wasn’t the case due to the amount of time it will take to relocate so many files, but I suppose that it is what it is right now. Perhaps the Plex team can add a feature in the future to the s…

In the past I have just hidden the show directory by adding a . to the front of it and scanned then empty trash. Once the posters disappear and rename it back.

Yeah, wasn’t talking so much about actual file system manipulation, more so the amount of time to rescan so many episodes. This particular show has almost 400 episodes. So that’s just a lot of time spent processing just to remove the commercial markers. But thanks again.

As a matter of fact, yes I did manually edit almost 400 episodes. :slight_smile:

Wow. Well then the amount of time reprocessing those episodes is minor compared to the time you spent doing that editing The point is taken that there should be a way to remove the pointers, having dealt with this myself albeit on a smaller scale. And maybe there is by database editing etc that I’m…

Remove ad markers for media items

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mspacek March 28, 2022, 6:10pm 6

Assuming you haven’t manually edited all 400 shows then you just have to do the plex dance with the ones you edited.

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