A few days ago, auto play next episode went bonkers. Sometimes it advances, but rarely played more than 2 in a row. They are the same episodes I have played for years at night while sleeping. All of the sudden they stop with 2 seconds remaining. If you hit the right arrow on the remote it advances with no issues, otherwise it just sits with a blank black screen, and 2 seconds remaining.
The server has sent a playlist to the client with one more segment than was actually produced. In those cases, the server sends an empty (200) response for that last non-existing segment. This had usually been working so far, but in this case, the Roku seems to be not satisfied with the empty response and keeps desperately trying to download that segment.