Double click to skip will only work when inside a commercial block.
Hmm, I am initiating it during a commercial block, but it was jumping the next show block and playing at the next commercial block as if it was getting the command twice (or 4 presses I guess you could say).
Only happened when I’ve used the Harmony. Not all the time but enough that I just use the ATV remote instead and chalk it up to a quirk with the Harmony.
I’ve had quirks with my harmony too. The latency on the hub is quite unfortunate 
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Is there somewhere to enable this “double click to skip” functionality? I’ve tried double clicking just about everything on the Apple Remote during a flagged commercial break and nothing causes the App to skip anywhere…
You need to double click the right side of the remote. Usually when you click the right it skips ahead 30s
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You might be interested in Feature Request- File Name
On going effort to develop a post process for comm free and transcode…
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Thanks for letting me know about that thread! I’ve been using mcebuddy via Parallels for awhile and I love it! It just takes awhile on my old Mac mini to process the files (and a lot of processing power) so I was thinking this auto skip feature would eliminate the need for post processing (beyond the current comskip process).
I was able to leverage the plexcomskip project to automate removing commercials with a combination of messy scripts to scrape the channels dvr logs to start a job to remove commercials and keep track of what it’s already done. Hopefully channels lets us do a post processing script like the plexdvr does, or just gives us an option to remove the commercials instead of marking them.
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I have the commercial identify function checked on my DVR settings page, and I cannot get the double click on the remote to skip over the commercial block. I’m using a 2014 Mac Mini 2.6Ghz i5 with 8 GB RAM so hardware isn’t the issue. Am I missing something?
Do the commercial markers show up on the timeline in the video player?
I just started using the DVR Beta in the last couple days. I haven’t played with it much. I now see what you’re talking about. Some recordings have it. A couple do not. It seems that SD recording either don’t have the markers at all or the commercial segments haven’t been identified correctly and the markers are off. I checked a couple HD recordings, and they are spot on. The remote double click works as it should. I saw someone else post that the software is struggling with SD recordings because of the lower video quality. I recorded a couple episodes of Frasier on an OTA sub channel, and the commercial markers were absent or not aligned with the commercials. A quick check of this week’s Blacklist and a couple other HD shows in prime time had the commercials marked perfectly. It is a very nice feature. Thank you!
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Not sure how the PlayON service does this but with their recordings they have “auto skip commercials” as one of their features as seen on their FAQ, “When you enable AdSkip when streaming a recording, PlayOn will automatically skip over all of the ads as the video plays.” So it is possible!
I have seen several of the threads in there but they assume someone knows what all of that means. I have installed all of the necessary components but it is all gibberish when it comes to creating, configuring, and knowing what to do with a script. Any suggestions or some specific thread you could point to?
I have multiple appletvs. Auto skip works great on one of my appletvs, but not the other two
Anyone have any ideas?
Using the Siri remote? What happens when you click the right side of the remote twice?
On tip for those using a Harmony remote: If you program a button to "skip forward’ (or something like that I’ll need to check my setup when I get home, but it’s essentially “next track” instead of “fast forward”) that’ll let you skip through commercials without the double tap. I actually have my “channel up” and “channel down” buttons programs to be skip forward/backward and it works very nicely with Channels.
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I know the developers have legal concerns about auto skipping, but I just wanted to mention that Plex now has the option to auto remove commercials where it will remove the commercials after recording. I’m still holding out hope that the devs would reconsider and have an option that doesn’t require me to pick up the remote and double tap!
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I’ve been thinking about commercial detection a bit. And I have to wonder: Are other people having that much better a detection rate than I do? I would never want commercials to be cut out of the recording before I watch it. The false positive rate is WAY too high for that to be a useful feature. Even on it’s best day I have to rewind a little at least once on pretty much every recording I watch becuase the commercial detection would have cut out some of the actual show. Usually there’s at least one place where I have to rewind 30 seconds or even a few minutes because it got it wrong. If that has been removed from my recording I’d have just missed a large chunk of the show I was watching.
Are other people having that good a success rate than that they’d want to risk that?
Is there something I can do to improve the commercial detection in my recordings? Because if I can change some settings to get near-perfect commercial detection I would love to do that!
Final though on this: Are there any projects out there attempting to use machine learning for commercial detection? I’d happily spend some time manually marking out commercials in recordings to create training data, or even better would be a system where I could indicate when it got it wrong and have it improve over time! Seems like a perfect application of machine learning.
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Yep, this is why we don’t auto remove commercials. Indexing and skipping gives you the ease of commercial skipping with the reliability of not losing any of your content.
Commercial detection will never be 100% so we don’t act like it is.
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I actually like that the commercials are still in because of the markers. The markers act like chapter markers. So, for example, if I am watching Fallon, Colbert, 60 Minutes, etc and don’t like the segment, I know where I can scroll to instantly to go to the next one. Otherwise, it would be a guess or I would have to hit forward several times.
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