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.
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Back in January 2026, a thread was posted about Enhanced Commercial Detection available for users to test in beta. It was pretty active for a while, but the thread closed on 6/20/26 because 30 days had past without any new replies and there is no way to re-open it.
My server is showing Version 2026.04.07.1758 as the latest, which appears to be from April 2026. I wanted to check in and see if any development was still been made on this, or if the project was scrapped?
Actually, v2026.06.29.0212 is the latest stable release
Your server should have automatically updated to that version
To clarify, I'm running 2026.06.29.0212 as the server version, but the Enhanced Detection version is 2026.04.07.1758
You are running the latest commercial detection
It's still active. It will only have updates if newer versions of the model perform better than the currently released one.
A new model has been released as 2026.07.11.1415 . You can update to it by clicking the Check For Updates button on Enhanced Detection .
Awesome, my server has already updated to 2026.07.11.1415. Hopefully this improves reliability with my news recordings. If not, I'll send more edits. Thanks.
