Anyone else having issues with no commercial detection?

Now sure what's going on, not all my recordings from yesterday and today, have zero commercials detected. And no option to edit confirmation, re detect does nothing.
Not sure what happened here.
I did now see a server update was waiting, so I did install the update now. I'll check when the next recording finished of it will detect commercials now.
Anyone else had issues with this??

Working here on latest stable release (which is same version as latest prerelease).
What does it show in the Channels DVR log for commercial detection.

This is what it looks like if the new smart detection is used

[ADS] Detected 2 commercial markers in file-1527: TV/Canary DIY Recording/Canary DIY Recording 2023-01-22-1320.mpg

And this for comskip detection being used

[DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1567 (TV/Renegade/Renegade S01E13 1993-01-18 Give and Take 2023-01-21-1558.mpg)
[DVR] Commercial detection for Renegade S01E13 1993-01-18 Give and Take 2023-01-21-1558.mpg finished with 16 markers in 40m5.45953655s.
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Geeee, I have no idea. Can you tell me how to find the log? Please

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Ok I found the log.

Here is what I found about commercials....

28.214928 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 7490 (TV\Leave It to Beaver\Leave It to Beaver S01E08 1957-11-22 Beavers Crush 2023-01-22-1330.mpg)
2023/01/22 14:34:28.683567 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for Leave It to Beaver S01E08 1957-11-22 Beavers Crush 2023-01-22-1330.mpg with exit status 16
2023/01/22 14:34:30.554120 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 7490 (TV\Leave It to Beaver\Leave It to Beaver S01E08 1957-11-22 Beavers Crush 2023-01-22-1330.mpg)
2023/01/22 14:34:30.783763 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for Leave It to Beaver S01E08 1957-11-22 Beavers Crush 2023-01-22-1330.mpg with exit status 16

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Here is another one I found in the log. I think it's the exact same error....

2023/01/22 17:00:00.337549 [DVR] Processing file-7488: TV\The Brady Bunch\The Brady Bunch S01E06 1969-10-31 A Clubhouse Is Not a Home 2023-01-22-1200.mpg
2023/01/22 17:00:00.756583 [IDX] Generating video index for file-7488: TV\The Brady Bunch\The Brady Bunch S01E06 1969-10-31 A Clubhouse Is Not a Home 2023-01-22-1200.mpg
2023/01/22 17:00:00.856432 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 7488 (TV\The Brady Bunch\The Brady Bunch S01E06 1969-10-31 A Clubhouse Is Not a Home 2023-01-22-1200.mpg)
2023/01/22 17:00:01.709879 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for The Brady Bunch S01E06 1969-10-31 A Clubhouse Is Not a Home 2023-01-22-1200.mpg with exit status 16

I'm not sure what exit status 16 error is.
Maybe viewing the comskip log for that recording will give a hint.
The comskip log file is in your DVR recording directory Logs\comskip\7490\video.log

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Looking at the sources for Comskip (the program that does commercial detection), an exit code of 16 means "Could not allocate memory for logo frame buffer".

This means your system likely doesn't have enough free memory/RAM to complete the detection, so it just quit.

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I don't get it. That makes no sense. i have plenty storage memory left.
I'm gonna try to restart the computer.

Oh wow! Fixed

Ok I fixed it. Thanks for this info.
I figured if it's low ROM I checked what's running on the PC. Turns out I left Bit Torrent running, I closed that down. And clicked redetect commercials for one show, and it's detecting now!
Thanks so much

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How do I switch it over to the new Smart detection??

You can't.
Channels DVR decides when to use it.

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I am having issues with commercial detection. Seems only to be on shows retarded on my HDHomeRun prime. OTA HDHomeRun shows are working fine.

[DVR] Running commercial detection on file 2958 (TV/Moonshiners/Moonshiners S12E10 Josh Gets a Jolt 2023-01-18-2000.mpg)
2023/01/18 23:45:45.706700 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for Moonshiners S12E10 Josh Gets a Jolt 2023-01-18-2000.mpg with signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)

I am not sure what buf=0%-39% in the recording stats means.

23:00:00.008648 [SNR] Statistics for "TV/Moonshiners/Moonshiners S12E10 Josh Gets a Jolt 2023-01-18-2000.mpg": ss=92%-93% snq=99%,98%-100% seq=99%,0%-100% bps=13953920,0-18633056 pps=1194,0-1596
2023/01/18 23:00:00.015154 [SNR] Buffer statistics for "TV/Moonshiners/Moonshiners S12E10 Josh Gets a Jolt 2023-01-18-2000.mpg": buf=0%-39% drop=0%

Any idea what the problem could be. This has been working fine since I got the HDHomeRun prime a few months ago.

Please send us the recording

https://www.dropbox.com/request/XBZmu4iplK3OmoWa3f1K

It is uploading now. Really slow. It is a large file hope that is ok.

Thanks

I'm having the a very similar issue.

2023/01/20 22:30:30.171720 [DVR] Processing file-9891: TV/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E00 First Look Tell All No Li 2023-01-20-2200.mpg
2023/01/20 22:30:30.672322 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 9891 (TV/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E00 First Look Tell All No Li 2023-01-20-2200.mpg)
2023/01/20 22:32:26.339778 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for 90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E00 First Look Tell All No Li 2023-01-20-2200.mpg with signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)

2023/01/22 19:47:50.041690 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 9888 (TV/BattleBots/BattleBots S07E03 Strike While the Bots Hot 2023-01-19-1959.mpg)
2023/01/22 19:51:40.909246 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for BattleBots S07E03 Strike While the Bots Hot 2023-01-19-1959.mpg with signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)

2023/01/22 22:00:31.287768 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 9895 (TV/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E21 Tell All No Limits Part 4 2023-01-22-2000.mpg)
2023/01/22 22:03:13.590668 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for 90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E21 Tell All No Limits Part 4 2023-01-22-2000.mpg with signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)

2023/01/23 02:00:10.308201 [DVR] Processing file-9896: TV/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E21 2023-01-22 Tell All No Limits Part 4 2023-01-22-2359.mpg
2023/01/23 02:00:11.228951 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 9896 (TV/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After/90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E21 2023-01-22 Tell All No Limits Part 4 2023-01-22-2359.mpg)
2023/01/23 02:03:37.035851 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for 90 Day Fiancé Happily Ever After S07E21 2023-01-22 Tell All No Limits Part 4 2023-01-22-2359.mpg with signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)

Try this:

Working now. Thanks for the help!

Commercial detection failed on Will Trent last night. I retried it a few times, then updated to the latest pre-release (2023.02.01.0638) and retried again, but it still won't work. I had two other recordings last night and two this morning and it worked fine on all of them, but when I click Redetect Commercial on Will Trent comskip.exe runs for about 5 mins then ends with no results.

I've had this happen a few times before on the rare occasion, and since I still haven't found a solution, I figured I might as well reach out to let you know.

Logs have been submitted as 0d944240-844e-4d32-b5e6-977152b559f6 .

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