With the new commercial removal option and the notation about being CPU intensive, someone on another site brought up a good point which I thought would be a good request. Basically offer the option to schedule commercial removal and, optionally, transcodes (specifically for DVR recordings) for a l…

Or, alternately, make a copy of the program and remove the commercials from the copy. This allows someone to view the program right away if needed. Once commercial removal is completed, check to see if original is still there and not in use. If so, overwrite the original with the commercial-free …

While a good idea (although I don’t think that is an actual problem. The original should remain available for use while Plex is processing the commercial removal), my main concern is over the CPU usage. Don’t want to bog down the system while other processes are likely using it and have preference. …

I’m running two i7 PCs and a QNAP NAS with 6 HomeRun OTA tuners and 3 HomeRun Prime Cable tuners. No CPU issues here. Perhaps a “checkbox” option for immediate post-recording commercial processing or wait until system is “idle” in DVR setting would be of benefit. Alternately, it might be just as …

I would so much love to be able to remove commercials at a later time because this currently over-taxes my CPU and makes other video playback impossible.

Schedule/queue up commercial removal/transcode

Feature Suggestions

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DVR Transcode and Commercial Removal moved to Nightly Feature Suggestions livetv-dvr	0	180	June 25, 2018
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Remove commercials from all files in the DVR folder Feature Suggestions	5	247	June 10, 2021
Feature Request: Option to remove commercials on-demand Feature Suggestions livetv-dvr	6	830	September 14, 2018

Schedule/queue up commercial removal/transcode

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