Pause too long

Hi,
Can add you in a next update a function to cut streams paused too long?
With possibility of settling the maximum time of break authorized :wink:

Please explain. What type of streams do you mean?
Music? If so, then this is a duplicate request

when my friends Plex is watching one of the media in my library and they pause and go do something else for too long it’s annoying … I’d like a function so that the plex server cuts the video feeds paused too long time, and if possible that the maximum allowed pause time is adjustable.

Sorry for my bad english i’m french :wink:

Just tell them to Stop, instead of pause.
Explain to them where to stop in the web app. (it is the small x in the lower right corner)

The resume point will get stored anyway.

I already told them, they are stupid …

To be fair there are so many devices without a stop button on the remote in recent years, so It often takes at least two clicks of the return/exit/home button.

One thing though, are you aware you can stop the stream remotely from your side? Im not sure if it works on every client. But if you ever want to try it you can do so from the server or PlexWeb.Capture

Click status then just move your mouse over where it shows what they are playing.

The Click the X next to stop playback. The stream usually shuts down after a few seconds and you also have an option to tell them why you stopped it if you choose. :joy:

You’re English is excellent by the way. :sunglasses:

I’m not stupid…, I know how to cut a flow myself, I want an automatic function that does it if the break exceeds the break time I chose

Oh right sorry. I’m not sure where I said or inferred you were stupid, but sorry for wasting both our time.

I must have misunderstood :sweat_smile:
Sorry

personne d’autre aurait une idée ?

Agreed, there should be an automated session termination for paused media. I allow a few simultaneous transcode sessions at a time, the max my server can support. If someone pauses, the session remains open indefinitely until stopped, which uses one of the available slots. This blocks others from being able to watch media that slot. I have to manually force stop the paused sessions to free things up. Putting this on the users to remind them to stop rather than pause is a nagging burden, not everyone in the family or extended family is going to remember how to do that or understand the problem. It would be much better to simply auto stop any paused sessions after a specified time frame of my choosing.

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this would be the ultimate option for plex to be perfect for me! ah and also that they finally update the application for Oculus GO !!

Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (Settings > [Server Name] > Network > Terminate Sessions Paused for Longer Than)