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Earlier tonight (October 26), I had Plex record the latest episode of MacGyver:
MacGyver (2016) - S03E05 - Dia de Muertos Sicarios Family
The recording started and ended on time (8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT).
I see that post processing began shortly there after and COMPSKIP was called, but after 3 hours, has yet to complete.
Logs:
Plex Media Server.zip (786.4 KB)
I have the same issue. Plex Commercial Skipper.exe is their forked version of ComSkip. For whatever reason, my plex commercial skipper isn’t downloading the correct codecs. As a result, it doesn’t know how to decode h.264 files. As I recall, the logs show it called as comskip.
The workaround I’ve found is to rename the donator version of comskip.exe to plex commercial skipper.exe, and replace the file. The replaced plex commercial skipper will be about 15 megs vs under a meg for the plex included version (comskip embeds it’s codecs in the exe, hence the size difference. You’ll also need to include your comskip.ini and comskip.dictionary in the directory as well. Hope it helps. Will.
Interesting Insight WCTschumy. Thanks for sharing.
18 hours in and COMSKIP processing has not completed. At this point, I am guessing its not going to. Does anyone have any insight as to what I can do with the file in the .grab directory? I don’t want to lose this show, which is what will happen I think if I restart the PMS service.
Is there anyways to restart COMSKIP processing?
If that is not possible, so should I just copy the file out and just deal with an episode that does not have commercials removed?
It would be nice if there was a way to gracefully recover from this.
The file in the .grab folder is a normal .ts file. If you want to get rid of the commercials, the easiest way to deal with it is to run the file through MCEBuddy (assuming you’re on Windows). You’ll need to customize the comskip.ini file, but it will work.
If you don’t care about the commercials, the .ts file is just another recording. At worst, you’ll need to rename the file and move it to where you store your recordings.
Thanks! Will.
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