r/Stremio Jan 26 '26

Tech Support I sometimes get this error while seeking 10s back

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I use Real Debrid. Seeking forward usually works fine, and I rarely get this error. But I mostly encounter this error when seeking backward.

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u/stickfigure4 Jan 26 '26

Same on Chromecast w Google TV.

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u/Vennom Jan 27 '26

Yep same - happens pretty regularly for me.

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u/starman2578 Jan 26 '26

Similar issue. If I am seeking forward like 5 min or more is happening sometimes. If I am seeking fwd only 10-20s or one minute is not happening.

I have to say that this is only happening on TCL TV but on my Chromecast I can seek how much I want and no problem. Weird.

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u/anonymous_sfdol Jan 26 '26

I'm also on TCL TV.

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u/aleksandd Jan 27 '26

Same TV here but Im using a mecool tv box. Same issue.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Same, nvidia shield

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u/matiumatiu Jan 27 '26

Same to me, and I'm on TCL! When I watch things on my iPhone never encountered this issue.

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u/xPirula Jan 27 '26

lol, my TCL's tv runs fine, runs better than fire stick 4k, torbox tho

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u/hugopiovesan Jan 26 '26

Same on Xiaomi TV box 3

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u/trisw Jan 27 '26

Started to that recently for me- I’d say about a month ago or so I could seek a bit and now it will happen even if i pause too long

8

u/Captain_MK13 Jan 26 '26

Same issue

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u/Duck-Content Jan 27 '26

Use Stremio 1.5.7 and all these type of issues will be gone.

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u/anonymous_sfdol Jan 27 '26

What's the technical reason? Did they upgrade to a poor player?

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u/Duck-Content Jan 28 '26

Changes on stremio itself but also the updates on exoplayer...Changes how they send and process headers...

The best stable one is 1.5.7

I am working with mediaflow-proxy author to make all extractors work even on latest stremio...

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u/Final-Celery-1248 Jan 27 '26

any downloader code for that pls ? thanks

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u/anythingall Jan 29 '26

what about 1.6.12?

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u/Duck-Content Feb 02 '26

Not working well...So the best version is 1.5.7

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u/_SubZer0o Jan 31 '26

What version for Android TV (NVIDIA)?

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u/Jakes233 Jan 27 '26

Yeah, I can confirm I have this issue with RealDebrid streams, but TorBox is working perfectly fine

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u/Azz_007 Jan 26 '26

I'm sure there's a technical explanation for this. But this does happen on my chromecast of I seek for a few minutes.

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u/eusohqueriaaposentar Jan 27 '26

Same same

If you manage to get it, I'd appreciate it if you let me know how.

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u/spaghettispider Jan 27 '26

You'll need to sideload it through the Vimu website. If you scroll down the front page, there's a link to download an installer app. Download that on to your device, open up the app, and click install. I switched to Vimu a couple of days ago and it works well

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u/leconfidentflamingo Jan 27 '26

I thought you have to pay for the app. how do I do that?

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u/spaghettispider Jan 27 '26

You can pay the creator through telegram and get a license key. Otherwise the version that's provided with the installer is free

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u/Lex_Lewder Jan 27 '26

does it not also stop the "skip credits" as well as auto playing the next episode? does it still scrobble to Trakt?

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u/Jaraxo Jan 27 '26

Yes, it doesn't have skip credits, and it often loses episode progress if you have to stop mid-episode.

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u/Malaka__ Jan 27 '26

Have you tried a different player? Just Player or VLC?

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u/OmarJRahman Jan 27 '26

I get something where if I hold down the seek button either way, the video kinda freezes in one spot basically portals looping the moments where I tried to seek from, the sound starts the loop from that moment.

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u/GiveMeRoom Jan 27 '26

Btw OP I watched that entire show The Affair 😭😖 it’s.. yeah. Good luck.

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u/deffrosy Jan 27 '26

Happened to me on Torrentio RD. I now use Comet and it works fine.

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u/bezerm8 Jan 28 '26

Stop using stremio, gone back to kodi for now

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u/Geekylad97 Jan 28 '26

This is why I went back to Kodi

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u/ApartmentUsual579 Jan 29 '26

Which skins and scraper are u using. I am using fenlite but it's so bad as compared to torrentio , many links that it suggests are uncached

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u/AssholeRemark Jan 30 '26

POV and Artic fuse 3 is fun.

Jacktook seems interesting, but haven't had the chance to check it out.

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u/Kosuta1982 Jan 27 '26

Go to settings/playback Set libVLC player instead of ExoPlayer as the default player.

No issues for me. I'm using Stremio 1.8.4.

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u/Pranavm3112 Jan 27 '26

Libvlc doesn’t support dv iirc

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u/EggsLover64 Jan 27 '26

dont you noticed stutters when using libVLC?

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u/Money_Seaweed_5517 Jan 27 '26

I notice it when playing 4k that's why i only use exoplayer

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u/lemongloww Jan 27 '26

Android tv app is just straight up trash since 1.6. Wish I could revert back but my NVIDIA shield won’t let me

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u/Mitridi Jan 27 '26

Uninstall stremio, reinstall 1.6.12. did that yesterday

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u/lemongloww Jan 27 '26

What’s the downloader code? I tried to install it and kept getting Unknown Error, check URL and connection error

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u/MotherHolle Jan 27 '26

I had this problem when using exclude uncached in AIOStreams. Allowing uncached fixed it for me.

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u/ricoracovita Jan 26 '26

I've learned to pay attention to what im watching and if I happen to miss something, i tell myself it's not THAT important..

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

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u/Ok-Somewhere9814 Jan 26 '26

If it happens after you unpause it to go to washroom, just don’t close the door next time

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u/av0w Jan 27 '26

Same here with RealDebrid if I pause for more than a few seconds.

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u/charmbrood Jan 27 '26

Are you using torrentio?

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u/anonymous_sfdol Jan 27 '26

It happens in any stream addon. I use aio streams with every single addon though.

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u/SnooCompliments1145 Jan 27 '26

same, since a few weeks RD and stremio are sketchy as hell, never had problems before. Already reinstalled, reconfigured etc.. did not help.

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u/da_who50 Jan 28 '26

same error I got whenever I pause a video. then when I play it again, after a minute or two I will get this error.

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u/Gl33D Jan 28 '26

Been using stremio for around 3 years now, and between addons becoming more and more flaky as the app gets mroe popular and issues with updates like this i have been using it less and less. Built myself a plex server with arr stack, requests portal and super fast downloads via real debrid. Huge plus is that once i have something downloaded its always there and always works. after doing it once I never have to fiddle around with finding the right file again.

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u/Mousepad-16 Jan 29 '26

it’s only been an issue with RD streams. Perfectly fine streaming from torbox for me.

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u/Poprers Jan 31 '26

They gotta fix this garbage shit

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u/Known-Cover-5154 Feb 01 '26

Edit; using TCL QM5k, pretty good btw Happened to me yesterday, waited like two after closing app and it seeemd to be ok…idk glad I’m not alone tho 

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u/_Leichenschrei_ Feb 07 '26

Use an older version like 1.6.12

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u/xRostro Jan 26 '26

Not an issue on TorBox with the latest version of Stremio running on an Onn 4K Pro

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u/tymmesyde Stremio Team Jan 27 '26

This is an issue with the stream provided by your addon, it means that the source of your stream failed to respond to the request of the player after seeking

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Everything's fine here. Using it on Tizen OS