BETA: Enhanced Commercial Detection

Morris_Altman · October 3, 2026, 5:11pm

All my videos have been processed. The couple of videos I watched had good quality commercial skipping. I saw a number of these events in my log:

2026/10/03 12:06:54.398778 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 21h51m35.6012218s
2026/10/03 12:07:52.945233 [DVR] Generated fingerprint for file-255 in 4m20s
2026/10/03 12:07:57.841252 [DVR] Completed enhancedv2 commercial detection on file 255 (TV\The FBI Files\The FBI Files S07E10 2005-09-08 Brothers Betrayed 2021-10-07-0700.mpg) in 5s
2026/10/03 12:08:18.037897 [DVR] Generating fingerprint for file-9547: Transporter 3 (2008) 2026-09-23-0800.mpg
2026/10/03 12:12:32.021017 [DVR] shared extraction for file-9547 failed (ffmpeg: exit status 0xfffffff4: [h264 @ 0000017684676600] reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] Missing reference picture, default is 2147483647
[h264 @ 00000176854fe2c0] mmco: unref short failure
Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 00000176854fe2c0] number of reference frames (0+5) exceeds max (4; probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] Missing reference picture, default is 65778
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 00000176854fe2c0] mmco: unref short failure
Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 00000176854fe2c0] number of reference frames (0+5) exceeds max (4; probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264 @ 00000176854fe2c0] mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] reference picture missing during reorder
Last message repeated 3 times
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] Missing reference picture, default is 67100
Last message repeated 3 times
[h264 @ 0000017684685680] mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0000017684685680] reference picture missing during reorder
Last message repeated 2 times
[h264 @ 0000017684685680] Missing reference picture, default is 67089
Last message repeated 2 times
[h264 @ 0000017684676600] mmco: unref short failure
Last message repeated 1 times

I've submitted diagnostics incase you need them. You can ignore the firewall warning as I created my own Windows Firewall rules.

Logs have been submitted as b23259b4-512e-49ba-80e4-ec345babeb80

eric · October 3, 2026, 5:14pm

The latest updates have not added support for hardware acceleration of interlaced video.

Shaggylive · October 3, 2026, 5:21pm

local news today. it did have a weather ticker on the bottom for the whole hour.

GTFan · October 4, 2026, 12:58pm

It's never going to flag shows with a constant ticker correctly, I've seen that on MLB network. And that's understandable.

eric · October 4, 2026, 7:27pm

We're working on it. The new Enhanced+ mode is contributing data for being able to improve this.

Shaggylive · October 4, 2026, 7:32pm

that's why I pointed it out. it seems to be the biggest problem when the ticker touches the bottom and sides. on shows where there is a margin around the ticker, detection works more like normal.

eric · October 4, 2026, 11:41pm

@Morris_Altman Would you be able to upload the Transporter recording for us to review? You can upload it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/MMjICRc053JJpSBPDIfQ

Morris_Altman · October 4, 2026, 11:59pm

It is uploading now. Good thing I have a VPN to my home network as I'm traveling

eric · October 5, 2026, 12:06am

@Morris_Altman sorry I wasn't clear, but it was this one that I needed:

sdschramm · October 6, 2026, 2:42am

Hi everyone, I have been testing Enhanced+ the last few days, and while I haven't seen any issues with long processing time, I'm not seeing much of a difference. Here are some more examples:

I have been submitting corrections where possible. If there is anything else I can do to help, please let me know.

eric · October 6, 2026, 7:03pm

That's all we need for now! Getting more recordings processed with Enhanced+ will be what we need to start to roll out the improvements to the mixed blocks and the many short blocks.

jator · October 7, 2026, 2:41pm

Turned on Enhanced and recording several shows a day, both OTA and through various sources (Prismcast and ADBTuner). Not sure if there's specific things you would like to record and I can set it up to record more for your needs.

mantooth · October 9, 2026, 5:38pm

I enabled Enchanced+ on both the server I run for myself and the one I run for my Mom. They are both Synology NAS machines but the one my mom's runs on has locked up multiple times since I've switched to Enhanced+. It caused an issue with a recording today so I've switched it off for now but submitted logs in case it might help. reference 7d3b7d7d-e65b-4b82-a9c5-e9e2f3330071

eric · October 9, 2026, 9:14pm

@mantooth Thanks for reporting this. Would you be able to upload one of the recordings that was causing us problems so we can look into this further?

If you could upload The Young and the Restless S54E02 2026-10-09-1059.mpg it would be very helpful: https://www.dropbox.com/request/MMjICRc053JJpSBPDIfQ

mantooth · October 9, 2026, 10:10pm

Thanks, uploading it now but would it be helpful to also upload the file for The View? The Young and the Restless was the active recording but The View would have been the one that was processing at the time I noticed the system hanging.

EDIT: I went ahead and started uploading The View recording as well.

eric · October 9, 2026, 11:13pm

@mantooth Thanks! We've identified the source of the issue and are looking at a solution. I appreciate the samples.

mjitkop · October 10, 2026, 3:02am

I am also seeing a lockup with video processing going.

Earlier, there was one recording in progress and we were watching a program from the library while video processing was also in progress.

The show we were watching buffered and stopped playing.

The server was unresponsive. I had to kill the power to it.

Now that it's back up, it's locked up again and it's still processing after I upgraded to the latest pre-release.

It's been processing this movie and detecting commercials on this episode for a long time.

I have other docker containers running on the same machine and their web pages won't load in the browser.
The whole machine is completely frozen.

I will kill the power again and as soon as Channels is back up, I will hurry and send diagnostics.

Logs submitted — reference 1a201b6f-46a7-41cc-92a7-659368cb5eac.

eric · October 10, 2026, 5:09am

@mjitkop @mantooth @Morris_Altman This latest pre-release should resolve these issues:

Morris_Altman · October 10, 2026, 11:51am

Great, Thank you Eric.

mjitkop · October 10, 2026, 5:28pm

Thank you. I've been running this new version for 12 hours now and no issues so far.