I have begun using the channels app to record shows, but plex to watch them. Channels does’t remove commercials, it marks them, then skips them. Plex doesn’t seem to honor those marks so, why not simply scan all of the tv shows in the folder every couple of hours, and remove commercials. It seems…

I use MCEBuddy to remove commercials and convert the .ts files to .mp4 for the smaller size.

Yeah, I don’t really want to mess with the files manually. Also, I don’t really care that much about the file size.

So doing some basic research I found out that Plex uses a 3rd party software console called comskip, but that there isn’t an easy way to get it to run manually. It appears that the comskip trigger is the completion of a recording… My suggestion to plex is to have that changed to the addition of …

Remove commercials from all files in the DVR folder

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Remove commercials from all files in the DVR folder

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