Sooooo interesting turn of events here. I had 1.29 installed due to the pixelated live tv issue which was keeping me from upgrading.
I upgraded to 1.31 which (turns out) does not have the above problem and have been running streams on two Roku devices now for 2 days, both going on for more than 8 hours without issue. I do not think I have seen this before. It’s gotten to the point where I am wanting to mention something here to tempt fate in knocking me down a peg or two in my expectations here. 
This would be really something if 1.31 fixed both the pixelated Live TV issue AND this issue. I will continue to run this and update here. 
