In a channel project I'm working on, and I also tested this on the YouTube and Khan Plex channels:
When you click through to view an actual video in the Plex Media Manager, then use the back arrow to move up one level, then click the play button again, you are asked if you want to resume or restart, but when you make a selection, you do not go back to the player. You are instead transferred (after a long wait) to the website for the video at either YouTube or Khan respectively. On my channel project, it turns into a file download of the stream instead of returning to the player.
This only happens when using the URL Service, not when coded directly (using key and rating_key; not url).
Is this by design? Or an I making a mistake in my URL service (ServiceCode.pys)?
The non-URL Service VCO (bottom of __init__.py file) is configured very similarly to the URL version in ServiceCode.pys.
This sounds like an issue in Plex/Web to me. Channels aren't supposed to be able to "resume" where you left off on anything (it's not in the channel framework) and if the Plex App (i.e. Plex/Web) you're testing on is asking that it's an issue with that particular Plex App. I don't think you've done anything wrong in this case. Also worth noting is that Plex/Web is probably not a good choice in terms of a Plex App to test things with, you will likely run into a lot of issues there that aren't issues for other Plex Apps. There are currently quite a few known problems with channels and plex.tv/web in particular so I would advise you to do your primary testing with another Plex App if possible. You may end up chasing down and working around a lot of things that you really don't need to.
One comment though in terms of your code, I see that you're importing quite a lot of local libs there -- and a lot of them (or at least the same functionality) are things that are already included in the framework such as re, datetime, time, demjson, urllib ... for compatibility purposes working across different devices it's generally best to stick to the framework provided solutions for as much as possible.
Yes the local Plex/Web is what you are talking about.
There are a bunch of different Plex Apps, besides the ones you know about there's Plex Home Theater (for Windows, OSX and I think there's even a Linux version), Plex for iOS, Android (phones, tablets, Google TV), Windows phone, I think there's also a native Windows 8 client too and probably others that I've missed. That's one of the reasons why it's so important to not use any imports that you don't have to. The channel framework provides a lot of those functions for you (usually you have to call them a little differently).
For example instead of re there's a Regex functionality in the framework, instead of datetime there's a lot of DateTime functions (you can find all of these in those channel docs). Also looking at other channels is super helpful for these types of functions as well, the docs aren't always 100% up to date.
The issue is related to the local Plex web app (Version 1.x). The internet web app is version 2. Plex will replace the local one supplied with PMS when V 2 is acceptable.
