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I’ve tried to look through this whole thread as much as possible, but haven’t seen anyone with similar issues to mine. Playing several different ways (Local drive on Kodi or VLC, Network share on Kodi or Plex on 3-4 different networked devices) I can get perfectly solid playback, but FF/RW/skipping to a location (or resuming from a location) is IMPOSSIBLE. With high bitrate encodes I of course expect a delay while the stream catches up, but at best I’m seeing like 30-60 seconds frozen, followed by a brief restart at the location, followed by playback terminating. I’ve found that on my desktop machine IF the file is on my Samsung 850 SSD I can get it to skip forward and resume playback with only a 20-30 second delay, but everything else just fails outright. Is it possible I downloaded a bad encode or is this just the nature of the beast?

It’s a shame because it is truly BEAUTIFUL and both the video and the DTS-MA audio tracks are to die for. But I’ve played a number of files with equally high density video and audio content without this kind of trouble. Just curious if this is a common issue. If I need to re-encode or strip audio tracks I’m not using or anything like that I’d be happy to put some effort into this, I just want to know if it’s possible to make it better.

My wife got so upset when we couldn’t resume playback that we had to finish watching on the official Blu-Ray release. Which I hope doesn’t happen again.

Thanks to everyone who has had a part in making this happen!