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Yup! But the busted card was ExFat (but something's wrong with it, it won't store files). The new micro SD card came preformatted as ExFat, and there's been no issues so far.

Hi, this is just a follow-up on the issue. So the issue seemed to be the card. It's borked. I tried to format the card several times, on different computers, and the card just won't format. I tried running CHKDSK on it, and CHKDSK detects errors, but can't fix those errors. I happened to receive a new Sandisk Micro SD from Amazon later that day. That card was meant for something else, but I put it in the Buzz box instead. And so far, it works fine (meaning recorded shows aren't self-deleting themselves). But I will replace this with a flash drive, as soon as I can. Thank you @Emporium and @dishuser for the assistance.

But the recordings worked. I was able to play the recordings back when I tested them. FYI, it's a Samsung EVO+ card. It's a bit older/slower though, has a U1 on it (80MB/s). But it should be fast enough, right? I put the card in the TF slot in the box. OK I will try formatting the card to exFAT. OK, will try that, thank you. Will see if the card reformatting has any effect first.

Download speed was around 85 Mbps. No, I haven't tried a VPN. FYI this issue started happening in the past few months, so we didn't always have these issues with the box. And we never had this issue with our previous BuzzTV box.

Here are some more details: Recordings were from XC stream I'm not sure how the card was formatted. It was previously used in another device, so we did not format the card (using the BuzzTV box) before using it.

Hello all, I'm having an issue I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. A few days ago, I made some PVR recordings that were saved to Micro SD. I checked the recordings afterwards, and they seemed fine (they played back when you click on them, can fast-forward, etc). Using the Files app, I noticed that the recordings were saved on the Micro SD in the Android/Media directory. Today, I wanted to transfer the recordings to my desktop. In the PVR, the recordings are still listed, but there is no thumbnail, and when I try to play the files I get a "stream not available" message. I checked the Micro SD, and the "media" directory is no longer there. Does anybody have an idea of what may be happening, and how I can prevent this issue from occurring again? Thanks in advance!

RE: "What are you using to play tv/ vod? Buzz 5 ,Kodi?" I guess it's the Buzz 5 app? We just use VOD/TV-series using the on-screen icons. I wasn't aware we could watch those any other way. But when we use Kodi, it's for playing streamed media from external sources on the net. The stuttering issue occurs regardless of the source. Wifi speed seems to be fine.

We're getting some intermittent "stuttering" on our box. By stutter I mean when watching a streamed video on Kodi, every 5 minutes or so, the video will freeze for a second (then resume). Sound is unaffected. This occurs regardless if the stream is high or low quality. I checked online and someone suggested to set Kodi Adjust display refresh rate to “on start/stop”, but that didn’t help We also have the same thing occurring for VOD/TV-SERIES, but I don't know if that's a separate issue or not. I've been unable to fix these issues, so advice is requested. Thanks in advance!

OK, we will, thank you. What's the difference between xtreme or m3u? In the meantime, we found a crappy work-around. In configuration we set "Real Time Streaming" and "Tunneled playback" both to "on". Now if the show freezes, then the screen goes black, BUT the show recovers a second later. Unfortunately this is happening fairly often, every few minutes or so. We will speak to our seller about switching codes.

How do I set/change stream format? I didn't see that option in configuration settings.

RE: "Are you using a MAC based subscription ?" - YES. RE: "Multiconnection subs typically use XC type connections." - What's an XC type connection, and how do I get them?

Account Info doesn't show the number of streams. Also, I may have misunderstood your prior recommendations to "use auto". What I thought you meant (and what I did) was in live tv/menu/settings/configuration, under "Real Time Streaming" I thought that was the same as "TS" so I set that to "on" (from "off"). Did you mean something else?

RE: "Does you IPTV service allow for more than one connection ?" - I don't know. And I don't know how to find that out. RE: "I have verified on one of my services, with my panel" - I don't know what this means. What is "the panel", and how do I access it? RE: "So if your provider only allows for a single stream, it would explain why it goes black." - To be clear, it goes black (or freezes) about an hour into the recording (and not at the start).

OK, we will try.

"Auto" is the default setting right? On "auto" we had a different issue, that the recording would stop recording much earlier than expected. Like, it would only record an hour of a 2 hour program. I searched this forum and someone had a similar issue and set it to TS. So we did that change to TS, and so the recordings aren't ending early anymore, but now we have a new issue that I described above.