diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 1efd7750..4bc7a90f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 * Add force episode recent search to API
 * Change process episodes with utf8 dir and nzb names, handle failed episodes without a dir, add log output streaming
 * Change move dateutil-zoneinfo.tar.gz file to data files /cache
+* Change handle all Hachoir library parser errors and replace its Unicode enforcement
+* Allow episode status "Skipped" to be changed to "Downloaded"
+* Allow found "Skipped" episode files to be set "Unknown" quality
 
 
 ### 0.11.5 (2016-02-01 19:40:00 UTC)
diff --git a/HACKS.txt b/HACKS.txt
index 66ed4087..c92cf8d9 100644
--- a/HACKS.txt
+++ b/HACKS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Libs with customisations...
 /lib/cachecontrol/caches/file_cache.py
 /lib/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
 /lib/hachoir_core/config.py
+/lib/hachoir_core/stream/input_helpers.py
 /lib/pynma/pynma.py
 /lib/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py
 /lib/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py
diff --git a/lib/hachoir_core/stream/input_helper.py b/lib/hachoir_core/stream/input_helper.py
index e7938310..96c7cc74 100644
--- a/lib/hachoir_core/stream/input_helper.py
+++ b/lib/hachoir_core/stream/input_helper.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ def FileInputStream(filename, real_filename=None, **args):
     not able to convert filename to real unicode string (ie. you have to
     use unicode(name, 'replace') or unicode(name, 'ignore')).
     """
-    assert isinstance(filename, unicode)
+    # assert isinstance(filename, unicode)
     if not real_filename:
         real_filename = filename
     try:
diff --git a/sickbeard/common.py b/sickbeard/common.py
index c3b93237..7282ade3 100644
--- a/sickbeard/common.py
+++ b/sickbeard/common.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import operator
 import platform
 import re
 import uuid
+import traceback
 
 import sickbeard
 import logger
@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ class Quality:
     def fileQuality(filename):
 
         from sickbeard import encodingKludge as ek
+        from sickbeard.exceptions import ex
         if ek.ek(os.path.isfile, filename):
 
             from hachoir_parser import createParser
@@ -241,10 +243,14 @@ class Quality:
             from hachoir_core.stream import InputStreamError
 
             parser = height = None
+            msg = u'Hachoir can\'t parse file "%s" content quality because it found error: %s'
             try:
-                parser = createParser(filename)
+                parser = ek.ek(createParser, filename)
             except InputStreamError as e:
-                logger.log('Hachoir can\'t parse file content quality because it found error: %s' % e.text, logger.WARNING)
+                logger.log(msg % (filename, e.text), logger.WARNING)
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.log(msg % (filename, ex(e)), logger.ERROR)
+                logger.log(traceback.format_exc(), logger.DEBUG)
 
             if parser:
                 extract = extractMetadata(parser)
diff --git a/sickbeard/tv.py b/sickbeard/tv.py
index c60db8e7..ee75fc71 100644
--- a/sickbeard/tv.py
+++ b/sickbeard/tv.py
@@ -698,7 +698,8 @@ class TVShow(object):
                     new_quality = Quality.fileQuality(file)
                 logger.log(u'Since this file was renamed, file %s was checked and quality "%s" found'
                            % (file, Quality.qualityStrings[new_quality]), logger.DEBUG)
-                if Quality.UNKNOWN != new_quality:
+                status, quality = sickbeard.common.Quality.splitCompositeStatus(cur_ep.status)
+                if Quality.UNKNOWN != new_quality or SKIPPED == status:
                     cur_ep.status = Quality.compositeStatus(DOWNLOADED, new_quality)
 
             # check for status/quality changes as long as it's a new file
diff --git a/sickbeard/webserve.py b/sickbeard/webserve.py
index 5e3f35b5..217c705f 100644
--- a/sickbeard/webserve.py
+++ b/sickbeard/webserve.py
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ class Home(MainHandler):
 
                     if int(
                             status) in Quality.DOWNLOADED and epObj.status not in Quality.SNATCHED + Quality.SNATCHED_PROPER + Quality.DOWNLOADED + [
-                        IGNORED] and not ek.ek(os.path.isfile, epObj.location):
+                        IGNORED, SKIPPED] and not ek.ek(os.path.isfile, epObj.location):
                         logger.log(
                             u'Refusing to change status of ' + curEp + " to DOWNLOADED because it's not SNATCHED/DOWNLOADED",
                             logger.ERROR)