A while ago I had a thread on running post-processing scripts before the commercial removal script ran, and we came to the conclusion that the current configuration ran commercial removal before any post processing script could be invoked. Has there been any update on this, any progress towards a fix?
That’s the design of the software. You can work around it, however, by using things like MCEBuddy, however.
That said, that will introduce other issues - by not using Plex’s commercial skipping, you’ll need to figure out which shows need to be cut, and which don’t.
Why do you want to do the commercial removal post conversion?
The software is poorly designed then.
I should not have to “work around” it by using MCEBuddy, if I wanted to do that I would not have bothered getting the Plex Pass.
And the point is to still use Plex Commercial Skip, but reserve a copy of the unaltered file in the event that comskip has errors. If the processing went fine I can delete the reserve copy after watching the show, but if not I can use the reserve copy to remove commercials.
Doing commercial removal after you’ve already transcoded the file introduces other challenges in video quality - that’s why Plex removes the commercials before passing it to the post processing script.
The scenario you’re describing is solved by the new default behavior of “detect and mark” vs “detect and remove.”
FWIW, I’ve been Plex’s commercial skipping and removal more or less flawlessly for at least a year - it’s all powered by ComSkip (Plex Commercial Skipper is a modified version of it, removing the embedded codecs). The benefit of it being comskip based is that there are a number of high-quality ini files to use as starting points for customization.
You can get the ini’s here:
Country INI files - Comskip Support Forum (kaashoek.com)
Good luck
BS. There should be NO issues in what I am trying to do, as I only want to create a COPY of the TS file before anything is done to it, no trans coding is occurring, just a straight file system copy operation.
And detect and mark DOES NOT solve for what I am trying to do, that leaves commercials in the file, eating up additional space and requiring intervention to skip them. It also forces me to use Plex to view those files without commercial interruptions, which again does not solve for what I want to do.
I ran some tests on using comskip earlier this year, not a single one performed acceptably, most were cutting off several seconds of the show and/or leaving several seconds of the commercials in.
I had a thread about this sometime back and the developers said it could be fixed the way it should be.
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