Commercial skip accuracy

This may be my imagination or a coincidence. I recently upgraded from the 2022.10.03.2116 stable release to the 2022.10.18.0345 pre-release. Coincident with this, the commercial skip accuracy seems to have degraded significantly.

We have the KTLA Morning News on pretty much all morning. Prior to the update, the commercial skip seemed spot-on. After the upgrade it always seems to start the skip a second (or fraction of a second) early and end it early too. The commercial detection also seems to be missing more commercial breaks or getting fooled in the middle of one. I think this is happening equally with both live detection and post-recording detection. The issue is not limited to KTLA News, but since we have it on so much, it is a good reference.

I'm pretty anal about missing part of a show, so I've always used manual skip. A couple of weeks ago, the political commercials finally got to me, so I turned autoskip on. I was pretty impressed with the accuracy. Now, not so much.

If there have been no changes to the version of comskip or the settings between these two releases, then I'll accept that it is just a coincidence. I'm posting this in case anyone else has noticed a similar degradation recently.

The last change to comskip was on Feb 8 2022

It could be something to do with the new live setting. You can turn that off and see if there is any difference.

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I have seen this on occasion also recently, for instance when watching Golf and I know they are going to commercial from the music that starts playing, it will cut off the end of the last putt or something.
What is the "new live tv setting" you are referring too??

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I have also noticed the commercial skipping inaccuracies and I do not have the Live setting on. I am running the prelease 2022.10.20.2350 but started noticing this in the prior stable release I had been running.

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...And today the commercial skip was once again spot-on. (Live commercial detection.)

Well I did turn ON that new live tv setting a while back.
I will try more tests with it OFF.

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