Use of remote to fast forward/rewind

I've got movies that I've converted from DVD's and when I play them I want to fast forward rewind, but the behavior of the remote is strange. It seems it I hit it once, I go to the next chapter, if I hold it down it fast forwards, then drops back to normal speed. I can't find any documentation on how this is supposed to work. Can someone tell me where to find some better documentation?

Welcome to the  Discussion forums.
If you press and release 'advance' while playing, the movie will advance to the next chapter.
If the movie isn't chaptered this action will advance it 1/10th (or is it 1/20th) of the movies duration.
If you press and release 'advance' while paused, the movie will advance 10 seconds.
If you press advance and hold, the movie will fast forward.
If you press advance and hold, even longer the movie will fast forward even faster.
There are 3 fast forward speeds.
These rules apply to rewind as well.
Note however that the movie needs to have loaded enough to jump to the appropriate places, if it hasn't there may well be a delay while it loads the appropriate chapter or whatever. If you keep pressing while it is loading the appropriate segment you may well confuse it and yourself. Try to let the blue line reach the end before giving the next command.
Movies with lots of chapters respond much better to these commands since the actions are pretty much dependant on loading chapters.
You may find that using FF and RW are not as responsive immediately after starting a movie, but work really well after you have watched it for a while, how much depends on how long the chapters are, how good streaming is and how long you have been watching.
Movies without chapters aren't a problem, movies with many chapters are better, movies with one chapter are an absolute nightmare.
Hope this helps.
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