[Milhouse]

"I don't think that those linked changes are directly related to the issue. The root cause is bad performing SMB due to incorrectly set chunk size. Unlike mkv ts files have no index and demuxer has to read a lot of data at the beginning. master branch is missing: ​https://github.com/FernetMenta/kodi-agile/commit/51fd52a7ca8134f4699fc0d6ebc48db40a081170#diff-6bcbc5e72cb6f869342ecae26c6a45ff"

So I built with the above change to SMBFile.h and the issue is gone.

Thanks, that's good that there is a possible solution - any idea if fernet intends to push that fix to master?

Just out of interest which SMB protocol are you having problems with - have you tried SMB2 or SMB3 which should perform better (in theory) than SMB1.