How do I use comskip

[martincjose]

I have Jellyfin 10.10.7 installed on Windows10 and it's connected to my HDHomeRun Extend.  Everything is working great and I am able to schedule and record shows.  Now I have started playing with comskip so I can skip ad's .  I want to skip (either skip or ask to skip) and I don't want to reencode and remove ads (not yet anyway).  I setup comskip and setup the DVR section with the path to comskip.  I set a test test recording and I can see the EDL file (with the ad times) in the recording folder.  Now I want to have the player (web, Jellyfin Media Player on Win10 or Firestick) skip the ad but it's not skipping anything.  On the player I click on the user icon, Playback, and set Commercial Segments to Skip/Ask To Skip but nothing is skipped or asked to skip when I play the recording.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks

[martincjose]

For example, following is the EDL file that comskip created for an episode of The Jeffersons:

72.87 268.10 0
1635.57 1798.56 0

But nothing is happening at those times when I watch the recording.

[HokieRulz]

Jellyfin doesn't read EDL files directly. I admit I haven't looked at this for a while, but the essence is that you need to use comchap to mark commercials as chapters, and then use ffpmeg to convert the initial video. There are a couple scripts on github to do this, though they haven't been updated recently.

Others may be able to chip on on what they are using.

[martincjose]

Thank you for the confirmation. That's what I figured since I couldn't get it working. My question is, if Jellyfin doesn't support EDL files, what is the point of having "Commercial Segments" -> None/Ask To Skip/Skip under the Users Playback section?

Thanks