diff --git a/src/lib/components/player/VideoPlayer.svelte b/src/lib/components/player/VideoPlayer.svelte
index 585637b..4d1ac23 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/player/VideoPlayer.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/player/VideoPlayer.svelte
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@
       seekOffset = 0;
       isMediaReady = false; // Reset to loading state when stream URL changes
       hasPerformedInitialSeek = false; // Reset so new video can seek to initial position
+      lastAppliedInitialPosition = undefined; // New stream - forget the previously-applied resume point
       endedFired = false; // New stream loaded - allow onEnded to fire again
     }
   });
@@ -373,18 +374,36 @@
     }
   });
 
-  // Handle initial position changes (for resuming same video from different position)
+  // Handle initial position changes (for resuming the *same* loaded video from a
+  // different position, e.g. the resume point is re-chosen without a reload).
+  //
+  // This must only react to a genuine change of the `initialPosition` prop to a
+  // value we haven't already applied. The previous version re-fired on the very
+  // first seek (it also depended on, and wrote, `hasPerformedInitialSeek`), and
+  // since seeking a transcoded/HLS stream re-buffers and fires `canplay` again,
+  // the two seek paths ping-ponged forever — the player appeared to pause/resume
+  // in a loop. We now snapshot the last-applied position and only seek when the
+  // prop actually moves to a new value, untracking the writes so this effect
+  // can't re-trigger itself.
+  let lastAppliedInitialPosition = $state<number | undefined>(undefined);
   $effect(() => {
-    // Track initialPosition changes - if it changes and video is ready, seek to new position
     const pos = initialPosition;
-    if (pos && pos > 0 && isMediaReady && videoElement && hasPerformedInitialSeek) {
-      // Position changed after initial seek was done - seek to new position
-      console.log("[VideoPlayer] Initial position changed, seeking to:", pos);
-      hasPerformedInitialSeek = false; // Reset flag to allow handleCanPlay to seek
-      // Trigger seek directly since canplay won't fire for same video
-      videoElement.currentTime = pos;
-      currentTime = pos;
+    if (!pos || pos <= 0 || !isMediaReady) return;
+    // Only act on a real change to a not-yet-applied position.
+    if (pos === untrack(() => lastAppliedInitialPosition)) return;
+    // Skip the very first application; handleCanPlay owns the initial seek.
+    if (!untrack(() => hasPerformedInitialSeek)) {
+      lastAppliedInitialPosition = pos;
+      return;
     }
+    untrack(() => {
+      console.log("[VideoPlayer] Initial position changed, seeking to:", pos);
+      lastAppliedInitialPosition = pos;
+      if (videoElement) {
+        videoElement.currentTime = pos;
+        currentTime = pos;
+      }
+    });
   });
 
   // Set up progress reporting interval
@@ -645,6 +664,7 @@
     if (initialPosition && initialPosition > 0 && !hasPerformedInitialSeek && videoElement) {
       console.log("[VideoPlayer] Seeking to initial position:", initialPosition);
       hasPerformedInitialSeek = true;
+      lastAppliedInitialPosition = initialPosition; // mark this value as applied so the change-effect ignores it
 
       // Pause video to prevent autoplay from starting at position 0
       const wasPlaying = !videoElement.paused;