DVR Pre-Release Notes

Beta Community DVR Beta
#2060

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

BETA: Enhanced Commercial Detection
#2061

v2026.08.13.1753

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

Pluto Big Brother Channels Recording issue
#2062

v2026.08.14.1803

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

1 Like
Issue with Channels recognizing Movies as TV Shows
#2063

v2026.08.14.1836

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

3 Likes
BETA: Custom Sources can now mix XMLTV and Gracenote channel mappings
#2064

v2026.08.14.2010

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

1 Like
#2065

v2026.08.14.2222

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

Comskip recently broken
#2066

v2026.08.16.0152

• IMPROVED: Enhanced Commercial Detection performance on Linux

1 Like
#2067

v2026.08.18.2120

• IMPROVED: accuracy of audio fingerprints

#2068

v2026.08.18.2205

• IMPROVED: handling of corrupted guide database to prevent DVR from crashing

1 Like
#2069

v2026.08.19.1216

• IMPROVED: Internal updates

#2070

v2026.08.19.1335

• IMPROVED: Internal updates

1 Like
#2071

v2026.08.21.0406

• IMPROVED: Internal improvements

#2072

v2026.08.21.1615

• IMPROVED: Internal Updates

#2073

v2026.08.21.1904

• IMPROVED: Internal updates

#2074

v2026.08.22.0430

• IMPROVED: Internal updates

#2075

v2026.08.25.0133

• UPDATED: Enhanced Commercial Detection model
• IMPROVED: A failed m3u/XMLTV guide data fetch after DVR restart could cause guide data for a Custom Source to not update for 24 hours

BETA: Custom Sources can now mix XMLTV and Gracenote channel mappings
#2076

v2026.08.25.0622

• IMPROVED: work around SMB deadlock on macOS
• FIXED: sometimes video fingerprints would not happen at the completion of recording

1 Like
#2077

v2026.08.25.1652

• IMPROVED: timestamp rewriter handles unusual timing in MPEG-TS better

2 Likes
#2078

v2026.08.25.2024

• IMPROVED: in many cases audio will have less glitches across bitrate changes with Client Adaptive Bitrate

#2079

v2026.08.25.2143

• IMPROVED: Verizon password errors are now surfaced to user-visible error messages