ah ha!
I checked the time stamps..I had the camera and the NVR time stamps displayed on the the TV while watching the live feed.
The camera and NVR time stamps displayed on TV simultaneously was showing to be off by a couple of seconds.
Logging onto the web ui also while doing this I noticed the same. The camera timestamp on the TV displayed the same time as web ui while the NVR and web ui was off by a couple of seconds.
Seems this may be part of the issue. I did a playback of an event through the NVR and the timestamps were jumping all over the place different from each other.
all the time and date settings are correct. its just 1-5 seconds difference here and there. I tried a reset, different settings and I continuously get the same result.
Any remedies?