Thanks for your time in helping look at this and the suggestions. From a networking perspective I send very high bitrate MKVs like Lord of the Rings FEL over the network without issue (>120Mb/s encoded bit rate on those discs) but still it was a good idea to try local playback instead of network/plex to help isolate. Unfortunately even locally (sent the John Mayer test clip mkv over winscp to the /videos dir) I still am getting the same skipping. I updated to the latest nightly to see if last nights changes helped at all but same problem. Then I tried the recommend cache settings and no go there either. Before I did the cache changes I did enable the log. I’ve got CE running on eMMC btw, I think I forgot to mention that last time.
Logs:paste.coreelec.org/2/GYse