BETA: Enhanced Commercial Detection

[eric]

@thart06

Is it possible to have an option to include closing credits? Currently on shows I tried this on, the credits don't get included with the show blocks. Seeing the credits let's me know the show has ended.

Can you take a screenshot of a the scenes around the ones you're talking about so I can get a better idea of how the structure looks?

The way Enhanced Commercial Detection works right now is based on the consensus of all of the folks who have submitted edits so far. This definitely leaves room for reasonable people to have a different opinion of what is part of the show and what isn't.

As we get more feedback from folks we'll look at ways to handle this. I do have plans to post a document that gives a our official guidance to some of these scenarios that are ambiguous and solicit feedback on that as well.

@thart06

I'm not able to enable Enhanced Commercial Detection on Windows.

Can you try this latest pre-release?

@fancybot

v2026.01.15.2215

• FIXED: Enhanced Comskip on Windows

[thart06]

I'm able to enable Enhanced commercial detection in Windows with the latest release. Thank you!

It maybe better to add an option to add 5 seconds to the last show block. The credits sometimes show right after a show ends and other times after commercial segments. This is not a big deal to me. I just need watch my recordings with the enhanced detection to see how it is when the show ends. The current version may work just fine.

[Shaggylive]

@thart06

Currently on shows I tried this on, the credits don't get included with the show blocks. Seeing the credits let's me know the show has ended.

@eric

I do have plans to post a document that gives a our official guidance to some of these scenarios that are ambiguous and solicit feedback on that as well.

I suggest the guidance encourages people to include the credits as a show block as well. I understand many credit rolls have ads for other shows, but everybody deserves credit for their hard work.

[Morris_Altman]

We have been enjoying the improved commercial detection. Thank you for the enhancement.

[eric]

I've started a document to try to aid in the consistency of editing commercials to submit to us to use in Enhanced Commercial Detection:

Guidance for Commercial Editing

As we are accepting commercial edits that help us improve our Enhanced Commercial Detection, it has become useful to collect a set of best practices for editing commercials to be submitted. This guidance tries to make some decisions to have edits that are submitted to us be more consistent. Feedback is always welcome, and we are willing to adjust. Please provide the feedback here: DON'T: include black frames before the start of a show If there are a couple seconds of silence or black befor…

[mackid1993]

I'm running into an issue with enhanced commercial detection turned on where I am not having commercials marked at all. But if I turn enhanced commercial detection off, I see where ComSkip found the commercials.

I'm not sure what I can do to fix it. I'm on Unraid running in Docker.
I submitted diagnostics if it's helpful.
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[eric]

@mackid1993

I am not having commercials marked at all

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. If you go Edit Commercials for a recording and toggle between Enhanced and Standard are you seeing commercials marked in both situations?

[mackid1993]

This is an example of what I'm seeing. @eric

[eric]

Is this happening for all of your recordings or just some of them? What is the source of your recordings? Have you edited and submitted any of your recordings?

[mackid1993]

I haven't edited any recordings except for one, although I reprocessed this recording and it worked. So I'm wondering if it was possibly a bug in between beta releases.

I recorded two shows this evening and they both processed just fine, so I'm wondering if it was just a one-off blip.

[eric]

@mackid1993 okay, let us know if you see it happen again.

[tree2369]

@eric

Limitations

Enhanced Detection has a few current limitations that could change in the future:

• It will not automatically run on some TVE recordings that have had their commercials detected from the stream itself (internally known as tagged commercials)
• It will not run during Live Commercial Detection

Does running Live Commercial Detection effect accuracy the enhanced detection post recording? It’s something I have turned off due to reduced accuracy, but if enhanced fixes those live errors would be nice to enable.

[eric]

@tree2369

Does running Live Commercial Detection effect accuracy the enhanced detection post recording?

Yes, it will impact the accuracy of enhanced detection. I have not run calculations to quantify how much at this time.

[tree2369]

No worries thanks for that.

With enhanced, I can see a little icon that marks show vs ad, how come in this pic some of the show markers aren’t selected? Or are these markers from my verified edit?

[eric]

Those markers are showing you what your verified edit had so you can compare the decisions that were made by the different detection methods compared to your decisions.

[Shaggylive]

every time i go to start making edits, I run into this and forget to ask.
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2856 detected 624 edited

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It's possible i edited a couple more than a year ago, there's no way I edited 624.
I don't want to pollute your inputs.
how can I clear that up?

[eric]

Go to DVR -> Manage -> Shows and select Filter -> Commercials -> Verified to see all of the ones that have been edited.

[Shaggylive]

Ahh, it's all my PlayOn content. I'll not mess with it or worry about it then.

[eric]

Oh, that's good to know! There may be something wrong with my calculation in that case. I'll look into it!