Unable to skip Adds recorded in plex media

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.41.3.9314
"Plex for Windows"Player Version#: 1.105.2.269-12a32491

After Reviewing This link" Removing Commercials | Plex Support"

I turned on “Detect Commercials and mark for skip” in the DVR Settings
Then I went Settings>Mange>Libraries>Edit Library >Advanced> Turned on AD Detection for all items.

Even before making those changes I was able to Detect Commercials

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I have also tried playing plex on Chrome, Edge and the Plex Windows App and my XBOX, I also do have the Plex Pass .

So if anyone has any suggestions of what to do to gain access to the “Skip Ads” Button please LMK.

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After turning on the ad detection, it has to be actually performed. That doesn’t happen during playback. It happens overnight, during the server maintenance. And it can stretch over more than one night if there are many items to process and/or the server machine is rather slow.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/

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I made the change about 3 days I ago, I have my update times set to 11pm-7am, but I will let you know after some more times passes

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Keep in mind that by default, ads are only detected in files which were recorded by Plex itself. Not in files which were added with a library scan.

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oh … How can I skip Videos added via library scan, I know at one point on I was able to, any ideas?

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You mean you want the ad detection done in these as well?
Just set the “Ad detection” preference in the library properties to “All videos”.

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Plex is already decteting the adds just not skipping them or giving me the option to skip them.

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Those look like chapters in the video, which Plex doesn’t generate, and aren’t used to skip ads. You can use Get Info > View XML to see if the are any ad <Marker>s that Plex has generated.

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Tell me if this means anything to you :slight_smile:

S8-E20 XML.TXT (7.5 KB)

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They are generated by Plex, if you tell it to mark ads, instead of deleting them.

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so if i tell plex to delete the ads will it alter the original video file or will it just skip them ?

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I thought it just added <Marker>s to the database, or at least, only considered markers for skipping content, not chapters. OP’s XML file indicates that there are chapters titled “Advertisement”, but only intro/credits markers. I would have expected something like this if Plex had generated ad markers for the file:

<Marker id="175460" type="commercial" startTimeOffset="2846920" endTimeOffset="2892400">
    <Attributes id="175460"/>
</Marker>
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so if plex knows they are ads how can i auto skip without effecting the original video file?

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Maybe I’m mistaken, but as far as I can tell from that XML, Plex doesn’t know there are ads in that file. I don’t have many items in my library with commercials, but with the handful that I do have, Plex didn’t create any chapter markers, only commercial markers in Plex’s database. Does manually analyzing the episode/season/show kick off anything?

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Are you saying that these

<Chapter id="44896" filter="thumb=44896" tag="Video" index="1" startTimeOffset="0" endTimeOffset="4998" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/1" />
<Chapter id="44897" filter="thumb=44897" tag="Advertisement" index="2" startTimeOffset="4998" endTimeOffset="19035" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/2" />
<Chapter id="44896" filter="thumb=44896" tag="Video" index="3" startTimeOffset="19035" endTimeOffset="801156" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/3" />
<Chapter id="44897" filter="thumb=44897" tag="Advertisement" index="4" startTimeOffset="801156" endTimeOffset="861097" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/4" />
<Chapter id="44896" filter="thumb=44896" tag="Video" index="5" startTimeOffset="861097" endTimeOffset="1438910" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/5" />
<Chapter id="44897" filter="thumb=44897" tag="Advertisement" index="6" startTimeOffset="1438910" endTimeOffset="1529110" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/6" />
<Chapter id="44896" filter="thumb=44896" tag="Video" index="7" startTimeOffset="1529110" endTimeOffset="1832610" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/7" />
<Chapter id="44897" filter="thumb=44897" tag="Advertisement" index="8" startTimeOffset="1832610" endTimeOffset="1892570" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/8" />
<Chapter id="44896" filter="thumb=44896" tag="Video" index="9" startTimeOffset="1892570" endTimeOffset="1979680" thumb="/library/media/19224/chapterImages/9" />

are not actually created by Plex?

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I want to skip the “advertisements” in that videos yet.

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Try the generic “Skip to next chapter” key combo.
It might be Alt + →

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I’m saying that even if they are generated by Plex, I don’t believe Plex uses chapters to determine when to show the ‘Skip Ads’ button, only commercial markers.

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That does work TYSM, is there anyway to do it automatically if it is a commercial ?

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Plex would need to recognize the ads by itself.
I don’t know how far it got analyzing your library for ads. If you just enabled the setting, it is totally possible that it simply didn’t get to this particular file yet.