Plex not saving unfinished episode history

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@alculete

Samsung TV version 2.012

@gwrankin

It’s only happening to my RasPlex install

For both clients above, the following applies (where it mentions OPHT) I suspect:

Plex Server 1.15.3.858 and above broke save resume on OPHT, Orca and Other Plex players

What you are experiencing is actually a bug in OPHT where it is reporting play progress incorrectly during the process of resuming. In certain circumstances this play progress was ignored by the server but the cases where it is ignored have been lessened. Now OPHT’s broken behavior is being exposed. There is at least one other bug in OPHT’s play progress reporting that I have seen before.

Plex Server 1.15.3.858 and above broke save resume on OPHT, Orca and Other Plex players

As @gbooker02 mentioned above, the change in behavior addresses buggy behavior; specifically, when you are seeking around in a video, and then seek back to the beginning to make sure it’s not saved at that offset, that beginning offset was being ignored. The change in behavior does make it more susceptible to buggy clients, and that’s unfortunate, but ultimately we made the decision to help the majority of clients.