Well, due to the problems that I've been having appear to be the same for everyone, I did a bit of tinkering. My emulator was set up and based on Magna 250 and its firmware using MPV player. I tried a few other versions like the magna 254 and 260 but for some reason things picked up and work best with Magna 270 and its firmware. I then changed the player to IJK instead of MPV and everything became more stable with less freezing, I also discovered that some of the BBC channels are quicker to come up and play without any black screens. If anyone has some spare time and wants to try changing the settings and player, it might prove interesting to see if one works better with than another. I'm using STB Emulator Pro version 1.2 on the full url address of P1