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Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You

posted by martyb on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the cat-and-mouse dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Over the years, Plex has grown from a relatively simple home media server into an all-in-one entertainment powerhouse. Notable feature additions include streaming personalized news, the ability to operate entirely in the cloud instead of on your server, and a full-fledged DVR. Now that DVR has gotten even more powerful, adding a new feature to automatically remove commercials, which was spotted by Cord Cutters News.

The feature was added in an update the Plex team pushed out over the weekend. While most of the update was focused on fixing bugs, this new feature was also included. You'll need to manually enable the feature by heading into your Plex DVR settings and finding the option, labeled "Remove Commercials."

You may not want to turn the feature on immediately without looking into reports from other users. The description in the settings warns that while the feature will attempt to automatically locate and remove commercials, this could potentially take a long time and cause high CPU usage. If you're running your Plex server on a powerful computer, this may not be an issue, but if you're running it on an old laptop, you might want to hold off.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/plex-dvr-removes-commercials/

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday December 01 2017, @05:00PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday December 01 2017, @05:00PM (#603962) Journal

    Stop watching TV. Admit it, there isn't anything on. You use it to burn away time because you're too unmotivated or tired to do anything else. Watch a youtube instructional or technology video instead. Metal working, gardening, flowers and nature, a yoga video, anything. Removing TV is a lot like removing soda pop. When it's gone you will wonder how you ever lived with the poison.

    I disagree. YouTube is in my experience just as bad as TV. The problem isn't entirely the content, it's the *endless stream* of content. Which YouTube is *very* good at providing, probably better than traditional TV. Netflix would be far better than YouTube IMO because you have to actually *pick something*, even if you pick trash. And a series on there generally isn't just a bunch of disconnected segments like YouTube videos; you have to actually focus and pay attention if you want to know what's going on. You can't just come home, turn on the screen, and leave it running in the background until you go to sleep. Sure, Star Talk Radio or PBS Spacetime or EEVBlog are far more educational and interesting than Family Guy or whatever reality shows are on these days, but if you get hooked on those you could sink hundreds of hours into them before you run out of content -- and meanwhile they're still making more. And when you do finally run out, YouTube is just gonna give you a ton of suggestions of similar content so you can just keep on going.

    IME the problem isn't watching trash, it's when you spend all your time halfway watching anything. Because then everything else you do is half-assed.

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