When I stop a show with a few mins remaining it get marked as watched even though the show hasn’t finished.
Is there any way to stop this, PLEASE?
Thank you for your reply, but this feature is quite annoying. Sometimes I have to stop a movie close to the end and I have to fast forward it if I want to see it where I stopped!
Just to give you an example of how annoying this can be: I’m watching a, Argentinian movie called La Flor. It is 14h long. Plex mark it as watched even though there’ still 1h to go!
This simply doesn’t make sense!
Plex’s arbitrary decision about that is WAY too far from the end and as such Veterans annoyed by the practice know they’re going to be annoyed and:
- don’t stop the playback within 5 minutes of it’s end.
or - back it up 10 minutes before stopping (adjust 1 and 2 for a 14hr video)
or - cuss when you have to FF to the part you missed.
(if you don’t have VPTs enabled - cuss louder and with more Gusto)
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Plex is probably using a 90% rule to determine “completion” of a show/movie.
90% of your 14 hour long movie is 12.6 hours, so with having 1 hour left that would make sense.
That general rule clearly doesn’t rule well.
What they should do is have it be an option like how Tautulli set it up.
It’s user defined as to what you want the maximum (though Tatutulli does have a max of 95 percent, which would still leave a decent amount left on a 14 hour movie, though there is no reason the max couldn’t be higher or just not have a max at all).
However, that will probably not happen or take a really long time to implement with Plex.
Search the feature suggestions and see if one is available.
If not, create one so that people can vote on it.
-Shark2k
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I’d call “La Flor” an extreme edge case.
Most other “movies” of that play time are actually series, which have been clumped together by someone into a single, contiguous file.
And these are much better handled in a tv show library.
I know that. That’s why I call it an extreme edge-case.
The 90% rule, if that’s how it is determined, works fairly well on movies released in the last 20 years or so, where the credits at the end are pretty lengthy and detailed. If you aren’t interested in the credits, the last 10% is probably not important to you.
It doesn’t work on TV shows, where the credits at the end are often 30 seconds or less. If my math is correct, 90% of 45 minutes is 40 minutes, It also doesn’t work on older movies, where the end credits were only a minute or so long. A 90 minute movie would be marked watched at about 80 minutes, still about 9-10 minutes of the movie left, if you don’t count the credits.
Maybe a different percentage should be used for TV shows and Movies. It will never be perfect, but it might fix some of the problems.
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