Video playing issues - Xperia Z5 Premium Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I've been having a lot of trouble with my Z5 Premium, one of the biggest problems is randomly not being able to watch videos on any type of internet service, such as YouTube, Netflix, hulu, HBO Go, Facebook, and Snapchat. This includes GIFs too. I have to restart my phone constantly to get videos to work properly. While on YouTube I can either watch 1 or 7 videos, then it will stop randomly and say "video can't play, Tap to retry". This is an unlocked phone being used in the USA and I have not been able to update operating system or anything else.

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Purchased Google play movies & shows wont play

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Realplayer Cloud issues..

I decided to give realplayer cloud a shot and from what I can tell it could be useful. However, after installing it on my FireTV, Win7 laptop, Roku, Android phone and Android tablet this is what I found:
All devices connect and can play videos uploaded to the cloud. However, I'm really only interested in playing off other local networked devices. Specifically, I want to watch tablet videos on my FireTV and to a lesser extent on my Roku.
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