Re-queue Commercial Detection per show

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#1

I am running the DVR on a Drobo5N that is underpowered in that commercial detection typically takes 110% or more of the original program time and many times the process leaves programs without the commercial detection indicators on playback.

Is there a way to kick off the re-running of commskip on individual previously recorded programs, perhaps from the “more” button that shows up during the selection of a recording.

I am looking to move the DVR to a NAS that will speed up the commskip processing time, improve the responsiveness of the guide and DVR listings, and to also allow for transcoding so I can have remote playback of the programs.

– Mike

#2

There is a way to do this from the API (POST /dvr/files/xxx/recomskip), but I can add a button to make it easier.

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#3

Thanks.

I have no idea of which of the many recordings are like this until I go to play them. Having a button to reprocess the specific program file as I run across them would be greatly appreciated.

– Mike

#4

Two questions:

  1. Is there a way to do commercial detection on a separate system when the DVR is running on a Drobo 5N2 NAS?

  2. Is it possible to have a separate DVR instances sharing a common directory so that remote DVR transcoding can happen on a more powerful system while the NAS handles the routine recording?

Thanks,

#5

There is no way to split tasks across multiple DVR instances.

#6

Were you able to add the button to allow individual shows to have comskip ru-run?

I have moved from the Drobo5N to a Synology DS918+, and the commercial detection is much faster (6x or more faster).

There are still programs that are not receiving consistent indicators for commercial skipping. Examples of the inconsistency are a show with one or two commercial breaks with missing indicators, or sometimes the entire program has no indicators when there are indeed commercial breaks contained in the show. Some of a show's episodes do not have com-skip indicators while most other episodes do have them.

The "button" you referenced would certainly help clean up the problematic episodes.

Have you done this yet, or am I just missing it?

Thanks.

-- Mike

#7

There is no button, but you can issue curl commands to redo comskip per file ID: Re run com skip?

#8

Thank you :grinning: