Nono, I thought it was to update the entire server. I had commercial detection off while I sort out performance issues on my ancient server box. I just went and turned it on and will give it a whirl if I can find something to record that interests me.
It did update, I just misunderstood your post.
Enhanced model 2026.07.30.2226 has been released.
How do we add a commercial break when it's not in the web UI editor? That's probably a dumb question I'm sure.
Also it would be awesome in the editor if the times were displayed as hh:mm:ss instead of number of seconds, so you could easily match it up with the timeline by watching it. Would make it a lot easier to add a commercial break that was skipped for example.
One other thing when you get a chance, take a look at a random baseball game on MLB Network. None of the commercials are ever flagged from what I can see because the MLB banner runs continuously throughout the entire program even during commercials. I don't think this is the only network that does that but there are score boxes that could be used to figure out when a commercial comes on.
Here's one option:
Thanks, took a look at that and it's probably too much work for what I want to do, which is to mark commercials in sports recordings so that I can get them submitted to channels and improve the detect rate. These are all watch and delete so after I watch them I could add commercials or re-mark them to help out.
I think if the web commercial editor was changed to show hours minutes and seconds, you could bring up a recording after you watch it (in the channels client) and quickly scrub through and add all the blocks on the web UI just by doing splits in the segments. Something like adding the ability to change the horizontal segment lines or add lines that you can move up or down. I'm not sure how hard this would be to add to the web UI but it would be a lot easier for us for those missed blocks.
We don’t have a way to do that, but we’ve improved the segmenter in recent builds.
If that doesn’t work, we don’t currently have anything to make it better, but understand this is an issue in some cases.
That's unfortunate, one of my common problems with sports events is that commercials are not flagged at all. In fact I just got done watching the women's British Open on USA Network and very few commercials were flagged. I'm running a relatively recent pre-release from July 26 so it had some of the improvements, but without a way to easily add in missed segments there's no way for me to help out the detection.
Thanks for responding.
Here's the summary for the event I just mentioned. The commercial blocks are way too short and at the end of the program almost nonexistent. I don't really understand why this routinely fails with sports because they all have logos that should be detected because they don't appear in commercials.
The latest DVR pre-release has some improvements to accuracy of Enhanced Commercial Detection.
Enhanced model 2026.08.10.2003 has been released and has some nice improvements to accuracy.
Hi Eric,
When the re-detect of the entire library happens, this takes the CPU of an N100 to near 100% for a very long time making the entire system unresponsive and has cascading effects on other things running on the system. Can you add a one second pause between detecting videos as it works it's way through the library to allow other processes a chance to get some work done? If you have a better idea that's fine.
Thank you,
Morrs
@Morris_Altman I’ll see what we can do to make this less of an impact on the system. Are you on Windows or Linux?
Thank you Eric,
I run Channels DVR on Windows.
I was watching the log this evening as I'm trying to improve my detection times (bumped encoder down to 720p) and noticed something weird
2026/08/11 18:02:00.017568 [SNR] Buffer statistics for "TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg": buf=0%-2% drop=0%
2026/08/11 18:02:00.063880 [DVR] Finished job 1786487400-356 MSNow30 News
2026/08/11 18:02:00.105588 [DVR] Processing file-46155: TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg
2026/08/11 18:02:01.166100 [DVR] Generating fingerprint for file-46155: MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg
2026/08/11 18:02:01.386512 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 46155 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg)
2026/08/11 18:04:53.944836 [DVR] Generated fingerprint for file-46155 in 2m53s
2026/08/11 18:20:45.361780 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg: comskip did not detect any commercials
I manually ran Re-detect commercials before I noticed that it still ran enhanced detection. so I checked and I was able to edit commercials.
2026/08/11 18:20:48.990793 [DVR] Completed enhanced commercial detection on file 46155 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg) in 4s
2026/08/11 18:21:18.758895 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 46155 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg)
2026/08/11 18:30:00.543177 [DVR] Starting job 1786491000-356 MSNow30 News on ch=[30.356]
2026/08/11 18:30:00.543177 [DVR] Waiting 29m59s until next job 1786492800-356 MSNow30 News
2026/08/11 18:30:00.543177 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 28m29.4568225s
2026/08/11 18:30:00.545940 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to M3U-MSNowCopy for ch30.356 MSNOW30 (clients=2, len=0)
2026/08/11 18:30:00.548534 [DVR] Recording for job 1786491000-356 from M3U-MSNowCopy ch30.356 into "TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1830.mpg" for 31m59.4568225s
2026/08/11 18:30:01.047387 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1786491000-356
2026/08/11 18:32:00.113922 [SNR] Buffer statistics for "TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg": buf=0% drop=0%
2026/08/11 18:32:00.221341 [DVR] Finished job 1786489200-356 MSNow30 News
2026/08/11 18:32:00.423612 [DVR] Waiting 28m0s until next job 1786492800-356 MSNow30 News
2026/08/11 18:32:00.423612 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 26m29.5763873s
2026/08/11 18:32:00.426750 [DVR] Processing file-46156: TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg
2026/08/11 18:32:02.348325 [DVR] Generating fingerprint for file-46156: MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg
2026/08/11 18:34:20.443446 [DVR] Commercial detection failed for MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1730.mpg: comskip did not detect any commercials
2026/08/11 18:34:20.453772 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 46156 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg)
2026/08/11 18:34:21.672716 [DVR] Generated fingerprint for file-46156 in 2m19s
2026/08/11 18:44:55.326812 [DVR] Commercial detection for MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg finished with 4 markers in 10m35s (3 threads).
2026/08/11 18:45:01.360323 [DVR] Completed enhanced commercial detection on file 46156 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg) in 6s
2026/08/11 18:45:36.202953 [DVR] Completed enhanced commercial detection on file 46156 (TV\MSNow30 News\MSNow30 News 2026-08-11 2026-08-11-1800.mpg) in 3s
not sure why detection reported failed for that recording 
also recordings from this source run enhanced detection twice.. I'm assuming it must have something to do with my custom source loop w/ placeholders. would there be a better way to accomplish custom placeholders?
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="30.356" channel-number="30.356" tvg-name="MSNow30" tvc-guide-description="MSNow News" tvc-guide-placeholders="1800" tvc-guide-placeholders-grouping="title" tvc-guide-title="MSNow30 News" tvc-guide-tags="MSNow, News",MSNOW30
http://localhost:8089/devices/ANY/channels/356/stream.mpg?format=ts
Logs have been submitted as 0c1a1398-bfa2-4ce2-a3a3-5c250292729a
Logs have been submitted as 9096f50f-ea55-490b-ab6d-eaecd9d70a6e
Thank you. You can ignore the firewall warning as I created the hole manualy after accidently deleting it.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I realized that we didn't have as many limitations on the utilization of the Enhanced Detection as we should have.
It now should use a lot less resources and also back off if anything else is going on.
Great, I've updated.
Thank you Eric,
Morris
Some unrelated comments have been removed from this thread.
This thread is specifically for feedback on this particular beta feature, not general stuff.
Hi Eric,
I was able to monitor my system as Channels Restarted a few minutes ago. The changes you made work great! I have 3 of the 4 cors of my N100 permitted to do Commercial Skipping. The system is hovering around 60% CPU and there is high yet not overwhelming disk IO. The system is responsive and other processes are working as they should.
Thank you,
Morris