Weird Skips watching Videos

I am having a hard time viewing imported media sometimes it skips forward for no reason or pauses. In Watching extreme Aggressor Criminal minds it skips forward while watching like 10 minutes for no reason ... yet they play perfectly in emby ...
Submitted diagnostics. If you need to I can upload file and EDL.

These files are recorded TVE from a 2nd DVR.

Submit diagnostics after it happens from the app

I did already ... It happens in the first few minutes.

Does it happen without debug hls mode?

I turned of HLS and it did not happen playing perfectly.

PS my intermittent pause when watching a Downloaded episode also not happening anymore.

I experience this with my inported The Bang Theory imports. They all play fine in plex but it randomly skips forward in ChannelsDVR.

Turning off HLS fixed it for me.

@Edwin_Perez Can you give me a timestamp of when this happened? I watched 6 minutes of the show and didn't run into any skipping that I could notice.

Also, would you mind updating to the latest beta, enabling HLS and trying it again? Also, if you could capture a video of this happening, it could help me understand how it looks.

Also Diagnostics sent ..

@Edwin_Perez Thank you! This latest diagnostic log captured the bug. I'm digging into it now.

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@Edwin_Perez I have added additional tracking and error handling to see if I can narrow down the behavior further. It's looking like we may have the OS removing files out from under us, but I want to get more of an understanding of exactly what is happening (which this new build will be able to do).

I've been trying to replicate the issue on my Fire TV with your recording and have been unsuccessful so far. Please try this build out and let me know if it has the same problem. If you can note the approximate minute of where the playhead was before and after the jump it'll help me sift through the logs.

Now it just stops playing and goes back to screen to select and watch ... It happens in the first 5 minutes of the show. They Play fine without HLS.

Android logs submitted.
Logs have been submitted as 9d3e4d9b-2cd7-4864-99e1-7f31220772eb

2022/08/29 19:05:34.355204 [ENC] Transcoder has handled 5068 segments and will be restarted
2022/08/29 19:05:34.364074 [ENC] Stopped encoder for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1147615530/encoder-2409-1831857812 after encoding 2409 to 2575
2022/08/29 19:15:06.291612 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E02 2005-09-28 Compulsion 2022-06-29-1559.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6668-ip10.0.0.209-3530058323/encoder-1851-3948935180 at 1851 (1851.850000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2733, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/29 19:15:06.321638 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6668-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x7798700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/29 19:15:12.482909 [ENC] Transcoder has handled 5084 segments and will be restarted
2022/08/29 19:15:12.495283 [ENC] Stopped encoder for Criminal Minds S01E02 2005-09-28 Compulsion 2022-06-29-1559.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6668-ip10.0.0.209-3530058323/encoder-1851-3948935180 after encoding 1851 to 2018
2022/08/29 19:15:12.496236 [ENC] Next segment to pre-encode of 2019 is 5m30.33s from the last request of 1689
2022/08/29 19:15:12.496528 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E02 2005-09-28 Compulsion 2022-06-29-1559.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6668-ip10.0.0.209-3530058323/encoder-2019-702117260 at 2019 (2020.018000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2733, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/29 19:15:12.527298 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6668-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x719e700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/29 19:15:15.658315 [ENC] Stopped encoder for Criminal Minds S01E02 2005-09-28 Compulsion 2022-06-29-1559.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6668-ip10.0.0.209-3530058323/encoder-2019-702117260 after encoding 2019 to 2139

This is very helpful. We're seeing segment that we've downloaded no longer on the filesystem when we go to use them again.

Are you using internal storage on your Fire TV? Can you try rebooting the device and see if that clears up the issue? Also, it looks like there is a newer build than the one you tested with. I expect it to have the same error, but can you try it out?

Will do more testing today and provide logs a little later.... It appears it is doing nothing.

Watching Criminal Minds - Season 1, Episode 1 from 10.0.0.194 (Transcoder Ready).

All it does now is stop and start the encoder and the Video keeps playing with no interruption something is definitely wrong ... Android logs also submitted. Unless this is expected behavior.

Logs have been submitted as 7e290622-db82-4799-9119-7a5cb581cf09

022/08/30 11:29:35.556779 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3679-1499257352 at 3679 (3681.678000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2732, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/30 11:29:35.590118 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x6f65700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/30 11:29:35.615034 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:      Last message repeated 4 times
2022/08/30 11:29:35.749829 [ENC] Encoder stopped for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3679-1499257352 after starting from 3679 without encoding any segments
2022/08/30 11:29:35.757814 [ENC] Next segment to pre-encode of 3679 is 9m52.592s from the last request of 3087
2022/08/30 11:29:35.758983 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3679-2940470316 at 3679 (3681.678000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2732, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/30 11:29:35.829010 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x75dc700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/30 11:29:35.853684 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:      Last message repeated 4 times
2022/08/30 11:29:35.949932 [ENC] Encoder stopped for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3679-2940470316 after starting from 3679 without encoding any segments. Marked segment as failed.
2022/08/30 11:29:35.957702 [ENC] Next segment to pre-encode of 3680 is 9m49.589s from the last request of 3091
2022/08/30 11:29:35.958738 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3680-4247067425 at 3680 (3682.679000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2732, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/30 11:29:35.991938 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x62f7700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/30 11:29:36.001510 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:      Last message repeated 4 times
2022/08/30 11:29:36.150164 [ENC] Encoder stopped for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3680-4247067425 after starting from 3680 without encoding any segments
2022/08/30 11:29:36.157546 [ENC] Next segment to pre-encode of 3680 is 9m45.585s from the last request of 3095
2022/08/30 11:29:36.158449 [ENC] Starting encoder for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3680-1517535940 at 3680 (3682.679000) (encoder=remux, resolution=720, deinterlacer=, bitrate=2732, segment_size=0.01)
2022/08/30 11:29:36.228739 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:  [mpegts @ 0x7ce4700] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 1)
2022/08/30 11:29:36.238649 [HLS] ffmpeg: file6666-ip10.0.0.209:      Last message repeated 4 times
2022/08/30 11:29:36.351093 [ENC] Encoder stopped for Criminal Minds S01E01 2005-09-22 Extreme Aggressor 2022-06-29-1459.mpg in /home/nyplayer/ChannelsDVR/Streaming/file6666-ip10.0.0.209-1181365239/encoder-3680-1517535940 after starting from 3680 without encoding any segments. Marked segment as failed.
Activity
Watching Criminal Minds - Season 1, Episode 1 from 10.0.0.209 (Transcoder Ready).

This is solved thanks to the developers for taking the time to look at this much appreciated.

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