Commercial skip not working

Channels iOS
#1

I’ve been using channels for a few months on my Apple TV’s and the only real issue I have is that commercial skip does not work half the time. Sometimes it will recognize a commercial and other times it will not. I’ve tried auto and manual commercial skipping. Is there a reason this feature is so unreliable?

#2

Anyone?

#3

Are commercials detected but not correct, or not detected at all?

Any particular channels where it's failing more often?

#4

I will get you more detail.

#5

for me it’s been starting correctly but it doesn’t end correctly. It stops and it’s either still on commercial OR it’s past the commercial and it’s a minute or more into the show again.

Im running the server in a VM on a AMD Ryzen Linux box.

I’m running the latest beta dvr. Running on AppleTV local at max resolution.

I’m watching the Good Doctor on ABC and I have this issue.

#6

Do you mean it's not completing? Or that its accuracy is a problem?

comskip, the external program that handles commercial detection, is developed by an outside third-party and integrated into Channels.

#7

It's an accuracy problem with comskip. I did some testing last night and it seems to be an issue with older recordings...which would point to an issue with older beta versions of the DVR server.... I weekly update the DVR server with the beta versions.

I realize that comskip is an external program but I believe I read a thread somewhere here that the DVR server has a comskip config file ....maybe that config file has been tweaked...?

#8

Then it sounds as if you want your own comskip.ini:

And then perhaps the ability to re-run comskip: