Auto commercial skip remover

[raverke95]

I very often record series and movies broadcasted on commercial channels. I do this by using an Enigma2 (Vu+Duo4K) satellite receiver.

When I want to keep a specific recording, I remove the commercial skips before storing it on my NAS.
The edits are done by Wondershare UniConverter 15.

The problem: I have to manually search for the commercial skips and manually remove them.
I have to edit 4K recordings much more and this goes very slow on Uniconverter. My computer is a MacStudio M2 Max with 32GB RAM, normally fast enough.

Anno 2025 with AI and stuff, there must be an app what does the search for commercial skips automatically (and hopefully faster with 4K streams).
Does somebody knows about such an app. Using the MacStudio, it has to be a Mac app...

[videoAI]

R u looking for paid options or strictly free ones?

What container are your recordings in? Ts, Mov, Mkv, Mp4?

Are you okay with a command-line macOS tools or do you require a GUI app?
For macOS, tools can be GUI (VideoProc, VideoReDo) or CLI (Comskip + tsMuxeR/ffmpeg)
with lossless re-muxing.

if auto commercial removal is not a must? then I would highly recommend:
Losslesscut for Mac, free, and has extensive cut format import functionality.

[lollo]

Cypheros TS-Doctor (I own a Vu+ Duo 4K SE )

https://www.cypheros.de/tutorials/TSDplayonmac_eng.html

[raverke95]

It must be a GUI app, because editing without seeing the cutting points must be difficult to make the right edits. Certainly when removing commercial skips.
I tried VideoReDo in the past, but I remember it gave issues with 4K recordings.
VideoProc is something to try!
Paid isn't an issue if it works flawlessly.
My recordings are TS.

@lollo: I saw TSD in the past and theoretically it fulfils my needs. Although, I refuse to install apps like Parallels to run Windows for using Windows only apps like TSD. Your workaround seems to be interesting. I'll give it a try!

[Subtitles]

I use TS Doctor to find the times of the commercials.
Enable thumbnails every 1 minute
Settings > Preview > Thumbnail View
Interval 1 minute
size 200 pixels
Open the TS file and let it create thumbnails.
Note the times of the start and finish of each commercial.

BTW TS Doctor does have the option to find and cut commercials automatically, but I wasn't happy with it.
I haven't tested this on the latest version.
Settings > Auto Cut