There is a setting in Advanced called “prefer downloaded content”. The description sounds like if you enable it, it will play movies from the file locally downloaded, instead of trying to stream it. I’m not sure if this feature is broken, or just never implemented correctly, but I would like you to …

Please make Prefer Downloaded Content work

drzoidberg33 July 9, 2024, 8:13am 4

How are you determining this exactly?

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