There needs to be a way to resume a video when leaving off near the end (or even near the beginning). A simple idiom would be that if the user pauses the video before pressing back or stop that it always saves the resume position, no matter how near the end the video is. If the user exits the video without pausing, then then normal “you’re near the end so we’ll mark it as watched” algorithm kicks in.
I agree this is very annoying and needs to be addressed.
probably falling on deaf ears, but please implement something to fix this. its a pain having to forward through an entire movie just to get to the last few minutes
It might help if a few folks hit the “Vote” button at the top. However, it’s been 6 years, so I’m not very hopeful.
Just came on here for this very question, was hoping there was a disable option for this.
Over the last months, Plex have changed how it treats the end of a video and when it’ll treat it as watched. There’s now an option to customize the threshold of when Plex considers a video to be completed. Users can configure that threshold between 70% and 95%. The old approach was fixed to 90%.
On a 90 minute movie, that can bring down the „end zone“ from 9 minutes to 4:30 minutes.
In addition there’s now an option for Plex to scan videos for end credits. Users can configure if videos should be marked as watched based on the % threshold, arriving at the 1st/last credits sequence or a combination of threshold/passing the 1st credits marker.
While this isn’t the exact feature asked for in this suggestion, I suppose it should still address the underlying use case. I’m therefore considering to mark this thread as implemented.
2024 clean-up: considered to be implemented (main use cases are covered)
