I am using the latest edition of VLC for windows and am having problems pausing M3u8 streams. If I press pause in vlc it only seems to cache a few seconds of the stream. I can record the stream fine using the record hotkey, so I should be able to pause it using the pause button? Looking into this problem further it seems that VLC may not support this:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=81483&p=270594#p269671

Does anyone know a way round this, as if I can record the stream it should be possible to get pause working.

I would really appreciate help on this as I have spent hours tying to get this to work without success.