I still don't think it's very good with ABC World News Tonight.
There is always a very short minute segment about three quarters of the way through the broadcast that is always missed because it's in between longer commercial segments.
When I looked at last night's broadcast, it missed even more than that.
I too have had issues with the commercial skipping with my local news and ABC World News Tonight. I've been submitting corrections the past few weeks, but haven't seen any improvement. Sometimes the issue is with the "edit commercials" interface not allowing edits that are precise enough. (it will group the show and a commercial within the same block with no way to split it).
@eric Why would these tiny little segments get flagged as show under enhanced commercial detection?
Show: TV/Mighty Cruise Ships/Mighty Cruise Ships S02E03 2017-02-26 Viking Sea 2026-04-07-1100.mpg
Here is another one:
Show: TV/Contraband Seized at the Border/Contraband Seized at the Border S02E07 2023-11-27 Crying Uncle 2026-04-07-1059.mpg
This is enhanced:
This is standard:
I am using the new webvtt stuff so I'm not sure if this a factor....
I submitted diagnostics:
07e8dba0-cfda-44b8-ac31-7495cb668703
@slampman Honestly there isn't a good explanation for "why" when it comes to these things other than "we need more data for this sort of recording".
I'm in the process of training another model with the latest submissions, so once that's released, hopefully it'll do a better job with these situations (and the news situations mentioned above).
We've released a new model 2026.04.07.1758 that can be updated by restarting the DVR or tapping the Check For Update.
Was verifying commercials on a recent recording, and while the last frame is the last frame of show segment shown in the commercial editor is of the show segment, there's about at least 90 seconds of commercial included after the last frame of show shown.
@TheDaveAbides Yes, as we talked about previously in this thread, the segmentation we are using comes from the comskip project that we have always been using. Improving the segmentation is not something that is part of this initial work, but is something we hope to tackle some time in the distant future.
The new Enhanced Commercial Detection is definitely an improvement over the default Comskip, but I’m still seeing a lot of inconsistent markers. One common example is when a few‑second segment of the actual show gets flagged as an ad between two normal show blocks.
I record the same set of daytime shows every week, and the results vary a lot. Sometimes the enhanced detection is perfect, and other times—on the same show, just a different day—it incorrectly marks a short show segment as a commercial.
I previously shared a custom comskip.ini that I’ve used for years, which performs better than the default Comskip settings. With my ini, show segments are grouped into a single continuous block much more consistently, instead of being split into multiple smaller blocks like the default configuration does. I’m wondering if those extra split show blocks are contributing to the inconsistencies I’m seeing with Enhanced Detection.
Is it possible to use Enhanced Commercial Detection while still supplying our own comskip.ini?
Yes, I understand how comskip works. I've done probably thousands of manual comskip runs using MCEbuddy, looking through log files, and tweaking different comskip.ini files along the way. I know that sometimes it just doesn't find a cut point for whatever reason. I just would've expected the last frame to be the true last frame of the segment.
No, it's not possible to use a custom comskip.ini.
The reason why we need to all use the same comskip.ini is that it the model learns through consistency, so everyone having the same settings means that it has the best chance of understanding what the segments mean.
I'm confused what the issue is that you're reporting, in that case. Are you saying that the segmentation is fine but the commercial editor is picking the wrong frame to display (one that is outside of the segment)? If that is the case, that would be unrelated to the enhanced commercial detection and we can start a new thread to look into that.
Ding ding!
I was under the impression the last frame was much closer to the actual end than 75% of the way through. That's not as helpful on longer segments. Enhanced did help on this recording, I just personally prefer to know if the detected segment had commercial at the beginning or end.
For marking shows as Verified, should you still mark them even if there's still some commercials in the block? Like if it's as good as the system can do?
Yes, if there’s part of the show you would want to watch, mark it as show.
The only program that I commonly edit is CBS News Sunday Morning. I have yet to see a day where the enhanced detection outperformed comskip. Usually enhanced is considerably worse. Today it came fairly close.
Usually, comskip misses a couple of bumpers. It almost always marks the last part of the People Who Died This Week segment as a commercial. Enhanced always seems to err on the side of marking a significant portion of program content as commercials. Today was a bit unusual in that a 30-second commercial sandwiched between two program segments was marked as program content.
Thank you for doing this. News is our lowest category for edits. Getting more for this unique show layout will help us make it better.
Is it wrong, really? 
I submitted dozens of edits for my local news and ABC World News but recently gave up because I wasn’t seeing any improvements. It’s become too difficult to submit edits because of the way the editor groups segments together. It’s not “specific” enough and I didn’t want to submit bad edits when both the show and commercials are grouped together.
@sdschramm thanks for your help! every bit helps and I'll be releasing a new model that incorporates those changes when I get a chance.
As for the situations where the cut points aren't right: it's definitely something we understand is an issue and would like to improve in the future.
