Video just stops (didn't press pause) and backing out resumes it? Plus other similar errors

Error 1:
Streams just freeze. No pause button pressed but video sits at a still image with no sound or anything. Have to back out, press play, and it instantly resumes. If I look at Tautulli, the second timer is still going as if it was playing, but it’s not. No buffering happening - it just sits there until I back out and restart it. Happening to lots of my friends as well so it’s both local and remote… any idea why?

Error 2:
“An error occurred while attempting to play this video. Please try restarting both the Plex Media Server and this app.” Also happens local and remote a lot. I was told to DISABLING the “Enable New Video Player” is the fix. Seems to help, but is there something in the works for a long term fix?

Error 3:
Several users report streams stopping / closing and they can (not always, but often) time it to the 33 minute mark of a stream. I’ve read in some other FB groups that they also see this error in the 30-33 minute mark. Some said “Turn off the option” for “Terminate Sessions Paused for Longer Than” in settings. Is this true? Any more info on that?

WIndows 10. Ryzen 9 3900 CPU. 64 Gigs DDR PC3600 memory. Platinum PS. Fiber Internet. PMS Version 1.18.8.2527

I am seeing exactly the same, latest PMS running in docker, FireTV client.

Widespread issue, basically no support

Seems the best support is never the Plex forums anymore. Facebook groups, discord, places where the actually care. Not the fake forum where they are too busy to help like back in the day because they are pre-occupied adding stupid crap we don’t want like crappy forced free TV/Movies, Tidal, and all sorts of other garbage

The ‘work around’ ATM is to go to:
Server/Settings/Network

Change - Terminate sessions paused for:
0 Seconds.

hit enter and/or save via the big orange button.

Yes I know the solution for Issue 2 and 3, and listed them. But there is just HUSH talk about Issue 1 that isn’t addressed at all by the dev’s and is a widespread issue

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