Frigate NVR Updates: Export Flexibility and GPU Stability Fixes
Frigate's dev branch picked up two reliability-focused merges from Nicolas Mowen covering export streams and GPU detection, alongside a heavy batch of community translation updates spanning more than a dozen languages.
Duration: PT2M3S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-09-05T13:14:10Z
- Audio duration: PT2M3S
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Good morning, it's September 5th, 2026, and here's what moved in Frigate overnight.
The headline is stability work on two different layers of the stack: exports and GPU detection, both from Nicolas Mowen.
First, PR 24193 adds support for choosing between main and sub stream when exporting recordings, including an auto option. Frigate now runs ffprobe to compare streams before deciding what to export. This gives users control over export quality versus file size, and it touched enough of the export and recording…
Second, PR 24192, also merged and followed up in commit 9e74adf, guards against memory allocation during CUDA graph capture. The issue: CUDA doesn't allow memory allocation on the GPU mid-graph-capture, and Frigate's detection runner was set up in a way that risked violating that constraint. This is a targeted fix…
The other major thread today is translations. Hosted Weblate pushed a large Korean localization update across nearly every component - audio, camera, dialog, config views, the works - all landing at 100 percent complete. Smaller updates came in for Swedish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Ukrainian, mostly in the camera…
What's next: if you're on GPU detection, pull the…
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