# Channel Api enhancements **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [July 16, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/channel-api-enhancements/70907 "2014-07-16T01:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psycik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@psycik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/psycik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/channel-api-enhancements/70907/1 "2014-07-16T01:26:58Z")
Wondering since people seem to be developing channels that deal with more that just streaming video. So it might be nice to have a few more elements available - similar to regular video objects. Ie the ability to delete a video The ability to resume a stream The ability to say a steaming object is partially watched ---
**Author:** ![mikedm139](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mikedm139/32/96909_2.png) [@mikedm139](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mikedm139)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/channel-api-enhancements/70907/2 "2014-07-16T17:42:39Z")
There has been previous discussion of tracking view-state for videos in channels. As I understand it, there are non-trivial changes required to PMS in order to support that. At some point, if/when it becomes a reality, it will allow for marking videos watched, resuming from where left off, etc. (at least for video streams which support that behaviour). I wouldn't expect any movement on this in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![psycik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@psycik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/psycik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/channel-api-enhancements/70907/3 "2014-07-16T21:33:31Z")
> There has been previous discussion of tracking view-state for videos in channels. As I understand it, there are non-trivial changes required to PMS in order to support that. At some point, if/when it becomes a reality, it will allow for marking videos watched, resuming from where left off, etc. (at least for video streams which support that behaviour). I wouldn't expect any movement on this in the near future. Its a pity that videos for channels are set up differently from local videos, as if they'd reused the same object, developers could have held the watched/current location externally and fed them in to PMS upon playback. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/channel-api-enhancements/70907/4 "2019-12-21T02:29:28Z")
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