DVR Pre-Release Notes

fancybot · August 1, 2026, 12:13pm

v2026.08.01.1207

• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection accuracy

fancybot · August 3, 2026, 10:45pm

v2026.08.03.2241

• FIXED: Up Next could sometimes skip an upcoming episode that had been partially watched (even by a small amount)

fancybot · August 4, 2026, 10:29pm

v2026.08.04.2224

• FIXED: Spectrum TVE login

fancybot · August 5, 2026, 12:58am

v2026.08.05.0053

• IMPROVED: error messages around Spectrum login failures

fancybot · August 6, 2026, 6:39am

v2026.08.06.0633

• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection

fancybot · August 6, 2026, 6:46pm

v2026.08.06.1842

• IMPROVED: Verizon TVE authentication

fancybot · August 6, 2026, 11:40pm

v2026.08.06.2335

• FIXED: Commercial Editor would sometimes report confusing scores and verdicts

eric · August 7, 2026, 7:23pm

v2026.08.07.0346 is being released as stable.

fancybot · August 9, 2026, 6:06pm

v2026.08.09.1802

• UPDATED: re-enable Enhanced Commercial Detection

fancybot · August 9, 2026, 11:53pm

v2026.08.09.2349

• UPDATED: increase the time waiting for the upgrade check to complete

fancybot · August 10, 2026, 7:14am

v2026.08.10.0709

• IMPROVED: performance of regenerating Virtual Channel guide data

fancybot · August 11, 2026, 6:09am

v2026.08.11.0604

• FIXED: crash in comskip that could happen with certain captions
• FIXED: timestamp rewriting could sometimes fail on Windows

fancybot · August 11, 2026, 10:44pm

v2026.08.11.2239

• IMPROVED: HLS handling that could cause incorrect timestamps for streams with separate audio feeds

fancybot · August 12, 2026, 8:15pm

v2026.08.12.2010

• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection now respects the Thread Count on Windows and macOS where it previously used all CPU cores (Linux does not have this problem)
• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection now only backfills detection after update when the DVR is idle

fancybot · August 13, 2026, 5:58pm

v2026.08.13.1753

• IMPROVED: handling of external audio feeds on HLS streams from Custom Sources

fancybot · August 14, 2026, 6:08pm

v2026.08.14.1803

• FIXED: Movies from Custom Sources would sometimes incorrectly appear in TV Shows instead of Movies under Search

fancybot · August 14, 2026, 6:40pm

v2026.08.14.1836

• NEW: Custom Sources that use XMLTV guide data can now specify channels that use Gracenote station mappings in the m3u

fancybot · August 14, 2026, 8:15pm

v2026.08.14.2010

• IMPROVED: Error messages when an HLS stream returns an empty playlist

fancybot · August 14, 2026, 10:28pm

v2026.08.14.2222

• FIXED: comskip could crash with certain closed captions in recordings

fancybot · August 16, 2026, 1:58am

v2026.08.16.0152

• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection performance on Linux