Is this ongoing issue going to be addressed at any point? I was watching a movie on mobile device, 1h37m. I still had 9m to go but I had to stop, I’m picking my device back and movie is marked as watched.
Is there anything that can be done to address that? It’s really annoying to scroll through movie just to find “the right spot”. Is there any method to analyze the content in such way Plex will know when movie really ended? What’s your approach to such situations? #letmefinish
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Plex never ever believes is choice in matters like this. (Exception being the unusual and unheard of level of choices that are showing up in the new Roku preview app, thanks) The time (percentage) of movie/show that marks a video fully watched is one of the places where many people believe that Plex should allow choice.
Plex believes that they know what is best for all users and they have dug their heals in on this issue and have absolutely refused every request that choice be allowed in this case.
Never have Plex given any even remotely valid reason for their being no choice in when to mark a video watched. All they have said is that choices makes the programming too complex. (I do not see any real complexity. You write a small routine in the server settings to set a variable to the desired percentage or time that means “complete.” Then you replace the constant in the server with that variable where it is used. That is a quite simple programming task and, once done, there is almost no maintenance for the future.)
To me the resistance to allowing that to be a user choice just makes Plex look lazy and uncaring. It would be easy and would NOT complicate the interface for users that do not want to change it and would be a powerful and much requested addition but Plex has refused to provide even this simple level of customization.
And Plex wonders why they are losing users to Emby. I do not have any idea why Plex insists on self destructive actions or lack thereof like this but they do and they have been self destructing in this way for a long long time.
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Left topic for days, no one from Plex can’t reply. Same ■■■■ again today. I had 16 minutes of movie. 16!!! ffs.
I knew 9 minutes was not enough, so I made sure to give me more time. FAIL AGAIN. You can’t or you don’t want to fix that damn issue.
@elan I’m inviting you to this conversation, or anyone from Plex team who can give me an answer.
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We use 90% for video playback, just because it’s the value we settled on years ago, and to be honest, we haven’t heard a lot of complaints about it. You have to balance that with people who e.g. stop watching a movie during start of credits and wouldn’t want it left in Continue Watching.
Basically, there is no single value which will work 100% perfectly for anyone universally…
So simply make it a user configurable option. It would make this kind of complaint easy to answer. In fact I think it might be good to be able to set it by library. Of course you can initialize it at your current value so those that do not want to configure it get the value they are used to.
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Options??!?
Blasphemer!
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I don’t like the fact I need to adapt. So I’m watching a movie, I have 20 minutes left and I need to stop in right now, because I know I will need to stop let say in in 8 which will give me 12 but that will be marked as watched already.
Is there a different mechanism that could be implemented here? Even a simple pop up “Are you done” would be great for me sometimes.
Please give us some options.
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This is user-configurable in Emby.
Correction: This will be user-configurable in Emby server 3.6 (not yet released).
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