Commercial detection, or honor EDL?

[Luke 42077]

On 2/21/2025 at 6:05 PM, muzicman0 said:

Is there any updates on this?  The plugin works fine, but without timeline marking it is frustrating at best.  I am getting fed up with using Kodi though, so if this is never gonna happen, I may have to look for an alternative that gives proper support for EDL files.

Hi, this is something that we're interested in for future updates. Thanks for the feedback.

[muzicman0 84]

On 2/22/2025 at 11:06 PM, Luke said:

Hi, this is something that we're interested in for future updates. Thanks for the feedback.

Luke, I appreciate you taking the time to respond, but this is the same answer you gave me back in 2018 when I started this post. If this will happen in a year, fine. I can wait. If it's not really on the road map, then that is a different story.  

[rbjtech 5284]

On 21/02/2025 at 23:05, muzicman0 said:

Is there any updates on this?  The plugin works fine, but without timeline marking it is frustrating at best.  I am getting fed up with using Kodi though, so if this is never gonna happen, I may have to look for an alternative that gives proper support for EDL files.

What we did with the original Introskip plugin was optionally 'insert' a visable chapter called 'Intro' (and credit if you had one) into the existing chapters.   This then showed on any 'timeline' or chapters view.

As the EDL file has the start/end of any/all commercials - would inserting a 'chapter' for each commercial, labelled as 'commercial' be of any use ?

If yes, then it's fairly easy to do this, as you just need to extract the existing chapters, add the news ones from the EDL file, re-sort the chapters and save - all in emby, you don't touch the source file.

@BillOatmanIf you are interested, I still have the original Introskip c# source to do this that Cheesgeezer wrote and I have updated numerous times ..  

[Sammy 790]

44 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

What we did with the original Introskip plugin was optionally 'insert' a visable chapter called 'Intro' (and credit if you had one) into the existing chapters.   This then showed on any 'timeline' or chapters view.

As the EDL file has the start/end of any/all commercials - would inserting a 'chapter' for each commercial, labelled as 'commercial' be of any use ?

If yes, then it's fairly easy to do this, as you just need to extract the existing chapters, add the news ones from the EDL file, re-sort the chapters and save - all in emby, you don't touch the source file.

@BillOatmanIf you are interested, I still have the original Introskip c# source to do this that Cheesgeezer wrote and I have updated numerous times ..  

Cool! Now to just update Intro/Credit Skip too! 

[BillOatman 596]

1 hour ago, rbjtech said:

What we did with the original Introskip plugin was optionally 'insert' a visable chapter called 'Intro' (and credit if you had one) into the existing chapters.   This then showed on any 'timeline' or chapters view.

As the EDL file has the start/end of any/all commercials - would inserting a 'chapter' for each commercial, labelled as 'commercial' be of any use ?

If yes, then it's fairly easy to do this, as you just need to extract the existing chapters, add the news ones from the EDL file, re-sort the chapters and save - all in emby, you don't touch the source file.

@BillOatmanIf you are interested, I still have the original Introskip c# source to do this that Cheesgeezer wrote and I have updated numerous times ..  

The Comskipper plugin cant do this really. It gets the events from Emby as the recording is playing and skips ahead at the places indicated in the EDL file.  The only preprocessing is done with the post-recording command that runs comskip now.  Some other utility would probably need to be created to do this chapter addition if desired and run it as part of the post-recording processing after comskip.  I would have no use for that so I won't be creating it, sorry.

I did create this app that removes the commercials that comskip detects.  

Edited February 24, 2025 by BillOatman

[rbjtech 5284]

15 hours ago, BillOatman said:

The Comskipper plugin cant do this really. It gets the events from Emby as the recording is playing and skips ahead at the places indicated in the EDL file.  The only preprocessing is done with the post-recording command that runs comskip now.  Some other utility would probably need to be created to do this chapter addition if desired and run it as part of the post-recording processing after comskip.  I would have no use for that so I won't be creating it, sorry.

I did create this app that removes the commercials that comskip detects.  

Thanks Bill - I appreciate the honest answer

I may take a look myself just out of curiosity more than anything as I don't use LiveTV much these days.

16 hours ago, Sammy said:

Cool! Now to just update Intro/Credit Skip too! 

Assuming you mean on the Core Introskip - then yes, I could do that but I would really prefer Emby to finish what they started with Introskip and add a proper framework/api for 'markers' - the same as what Jellyfin has done ... (media segments - covering commercial, preview, recap, intro and outro) ..  

Edited February 25, 2025 by rbjtech