# Hulu recordings - Ad Marker removal leaves 1 second of ad
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451
**Category:** Commercial Removal
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451 "2020-02-20T21:59:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Parabolee](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Parabolee)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/1 "2020-02-20T21:59:20Z")
I am trying to remove commercials with markers from Hulu recordings, and it is removing them all. but it leaves 1 second of Ad for every commercial it removes. Any way to extend what it removes to fix this?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/2 "2020-02-22T04:26:56Z")
I think you can adjust that via the global removes portion of comskip - try playing with the delete show before and after attributes. It’s also worth checking the comskip forums - they may cover this topic as well. Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Parabolee](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Parabolee)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/3 "2020-02-22T04:37:32Z")
I thought using the “Use Markers” setting wasn’t using ComSkip?? Am I wrong?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/4 "2020-02-22T04:55:34Z")
it’s not - it’s using the xml or edl file to cut the video file using ffmpeg. How are you getting the markers?
If it’s via Plex, you need to modify the comskip.ini file to do that.
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### Author:  [@Parabolee](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Parabolee)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/5 "2020-02-22T05:08:36Z")
Sorry, should have said, I am using PlayOn
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### Author:  [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/6 "2020-02-22T20:42:45Z")
In that scenario, it should be playon that’s setting the markers. Is there any ability to change how it marks commercials?
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### Author:  [@kamalr](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/kamalr)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/7 "2020-06-19T20:22:53Z")
I seem to be having the same issue. It seems when PlayOn records the show, it marks the commercial late by a couple seconds. I try to remedy that by using comskip and using the Global Removes \> remove\_before = 10 in the Comskip INI Editor v1.0 that comes with MCEBuddy. This still leaves a couple seconds no matter what value i change that to.
It seems no matter what number I choose for the remove\_before, there is no effect on the few seconds commercial that is left over.This makes me wonder if the comskip editor doesn’t actually apply the changes. I open the editor in administrator and “save INI” after changes.
I made both the MCEBuddy and comskip shortest commercial length to 2 seconds in case that was the issue but that didn’t help.
All help will be greatly appreciated!
[In Pursuit With John Walsh - s01e01 - Tragic Entanglement.mp4-Comskip-2020-06-19T13-08-00.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/1XsgBRK8xHPkCrVHzq31YqIWuLs.log) (857.0 KB)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/8 "2020-06-19T21:39:25Z")
PlanOn creates its own ad markers. MCEBuddy is using the ad markers from playon, it’s not running Comskip which is why your changes to comskip setting aren’t making any difference.
> CHAPTER INFO →
> Chapter No → 0
> Start time (ms) → 0
> End time (ms) → 734262
> Chapter name → Video
>
> Chapter No → 1
> Start time (ms) → 734262
> End time (ms) → 764809
> Chapter name → Advertisement
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> Chapter No → 2
> Start time (ms) → 764809
> End time (ms) → 766001
> Chapter name → Video
>
> Chapter No → 3
> Start time (ms) → 766001
> End time (ms) → 890230
> Chapter name → Advertisement
>
> Chapter No → 4
> Start time (ms) → 890230
> End time (ms) → 1299983
> Chapter name → Video
>
> Chapter No → 5
> Start time (ms) → 1299983
> End time (ms) → 1424744
> Chapter name → Advertisement
>
> Chapter No → 6
> Start time (ms) → 1424744
> End time (ms) → 1960842
> Chapter name → Video
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> Chapter No → 7
> Start time (ms) → 1960842
> End time (ms) → 2037988
> Chapter name → Advertisement
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> Chapter No → 8
> Start time (ms) → 2037988
> End time (ms) → 2556484
> Chapter name → Video
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> Chapter No → 9
> Start time (ms) → 2556484
> End time (ms) → 2586813
> Chapter name → Advertisement
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> Chapter No → 10
> Start time (ms) → 2586813
> End time (ms) → 2588019
> Chapter name → Video
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> Chapter No → 11
> Start time (ms) → 2588019
> End time (ms) → 2661732
> Chapter name → Advertisement
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> Chapter No → 12
> Start time (ms) → 2661732
> End time (ms) → 3057257
> Chapter name → Video
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### Author:  [@ghanchi7841](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/ghanchi7841)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/9 "2020-08-17T15:50:49Z")
So, is there a way to add one second before and after ad marker? Just like it can be done in comskip.
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### Author:  [@tonywhitwor475](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/tonywhitwor475)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/10 "2020-09-30T12:01:51Z")
Welcome to the group first of all. But to answer you question yes I remove the PlayOn screen before and after the movies I recorded, if it’s Hulu, HBO/Max, CBS, Amazon Prime, etc. I’m not at home in front of my PC, but if you haven’t figured it out PM and I sent you some screenshots. I fairly new here myself and still learning.
Tony
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### Author:  [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/11 "2020-10-25T04:47:02Z")
You can add a second under the Expert Settings portion of the conversion task - it’s in the Audio and Video section (3rd). Good luck! Will.
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### Author:  [@ghanchi7841](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/ghanchi7841)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/12 "2020-10-25T16:27:11Z")
Hi Will, thanks for your reply. Your solution cuts seconds in the beginning and end of the video. I already have it setup for 3 seconds to remove playon watermark. But that’s not what the original poster and I were asking. How to remove 1 second of commercial the software leaves? thanks,
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### Author:  [@kamalr](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/kamalr)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/13 "2020-10-25T22:22:17Z")
I think a solution is to extract the commercial markers that playon produces so comskip can use it. Right now mcebuddy uses the markers that playon produces and doesn’t run comskip.
So if there’s a way that we can extract commercial markers that playon produces and then edit them to start a second earlier, we can then use mcebuddy to cut the commercials fully.
If there’s someone who knows how to do this, that would be greatly appreciated as I’m still learning how to use these programs.
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### Author:  [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/14 "2020-10-26T03:23:13Z")
You’re right - I misread the tooltips.
I think you can accomplish this in the global removes section of Comskip, but as Kamalr points out, you need to get PlayOn’s markers to ComSkip.
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### Author:  [@ghanchi7841](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/ghanchi7841)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hulu-recordings-ad-marker-removal-leaves-1-second-of-ad/3451/15 "2020-10-28T21:13:40Z")
That’s an excellent suggestion. Can we submit that as a feature request to developer(s) ?