# Plex is now doing commercial skip - readable from MCEBuddy for cuts?

**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/plex-is-now-doing-commercial-skip-readable-from-mcebuddy-for-cuts/3904
**Category:** Commercial Removal
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/plex-is-now-doing-commercial-skip-readable-from-mcebuddy-for-cuts/3904 "2020-09-25T13:48:46Z")
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### Author: ![Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@Will\_Tschumy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Will_Tschumy)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/plex-is-now-doing-commercial-skip-readable-from-mcebuddy-for-cuts/3904/6 "2020-10-02T05:35:14Z")

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You can read the xml files for a given media element via the plex api key - Goose showed me how to trigger a refresh of the library via curl some time ago. I wonder if the XML cut points are accessible via a similar method?

> [@Plex Media Server Integration](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/plex-media-server-integration/3521/9):
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> I haven’t played with it much beyond calling curl - I didn’t get it to work with a batch file, but I also didn’t try very hard. This works: [HEVC MKV] Description=HEVC in MKV (H.265/AC3) conversion. Creates a smaller file (50% smaller than H.264) with comparable quality but very slow. order=handbrake,ffmpeg ffmpeg-general=-threads 0 ffmpeg-video=-ss 3 -vf yadif=0:-1:1,hqdn3d -vcodec libx265 -preset medium -x265-params crf=18 -map 0:v -sn ffmpeg-audio=-acodec ac3 -ab 160k -map 0:a ffmpeg-audioa…

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