DVR no longer removing commercials

A bit of a shot in the dark, but after upgrading from 1.19.2.(something) to 1.19.3.2764 on Linux my commercial skipper wasn’t working. In my logs I couldn’t even find that the commercial skipper tried to run. It would go from ending the recording straight to assimilating the recorded file. This is what I’m seeing in your logs. I resolved it by going into the DVR settings, setting “Remove Commercials” to “Disabled”, saving, and then going back in and setting “Remove Commercials” to “Detect and delete commercials”.

After upgrading I had three consecutive recordings where the commercial skipper didn’t run, I did the unset/set routine above, and now have had three consecutive recordings where the commercial skipper did run.

I swear “Remove Commercials” used to be a check box in the DVR settings. Now it is a drop down. Perhaps they are preparing for a new third option where commercials are marked but not destructively removed - that would be cool. However, possibly the setting didn’t carry through the upgrade from check box to drop down with the right value behind the scenes, even though the drop down looked right? Good luck - I hope this works for you.

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