[vbalbert]

Yes, this sounds familiar, but this is different from what I've read in the forum. I recently got a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with OpenELEC 6.0.3. My video files are hosted on my Windows 10 machine. Everything works fine except that sometimes movies constantly pause and unpause. This is not a buffering issue. It's as if the pause button on my remote (Rosewill RHRC-11001) is being pressed as I see the pause indicator appear in the upper right of the screen. The remote sensor (the part connected to the Raspberry) is not lighting up as if it's getting a command to pause, but the Raspberry is acting as if it's getting a pause command. I have to press the Play button on my remote to get things going again. Any ideas as to what might be happening? I'm a newbie when it comes to the Pi, so if you need logs for it, please tell me what I have to do to post them.

[popcornmix]

That is how buffering behaves. It pauses the stream until enough data is buffered up.
You can press the pause key to resume sooner, but that will typically result in a pause soon after.

[da-anda]

if you are on a wireless connection, try a wired connection and see if the pauses still occur. If not, then you have a bad wifi connection and your pauses are related to buffering. If that's not the case, maybe a Debug Log would help, as it should show pause actions