Recorded shows cannot be watched

When I try to watch any show that I have recorded, the show will not play. I get one or two frames and a little sound and then it buffers and skips ahead in the show about 1 minute and does the same thing through the entire show. It doesn’t seem to play smoothly or continually.

I have tried turning detect commercials on and off with no change. I am not using turner sharing and this problem exists whether I am using an AppleTV running the latest tvOS and latest channels app or using the web interface.

Channels DVR is running on a mac mini with High Sierra. The boot drive is formatted as APFS but the second Data drive which is what channels uses as the DVR directory location is formatted as HFS+.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Are you able to play the recorded video files using VLC on your Mac?

No I cannot. I just switched network ports though that the mini was plugged into on my switch and that seems like it may have resolved the issue. I just started recording a show and can watch the show from the recording with everything working.

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