Track Season Progress

General Discussions
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Hi all,

I’m coming from Serviio and I’m finding it difficult to keep using Plex and feel I’m missing something.

In Serviio when watching a video through the ‘Series’ view, an asterisk is added to the last file watched in the season showing easily where in the season you’re up to.

Additionally the next show in the season automatically plays when the current one is finished.

Is there a similar setting in Plex? I can deal with the second one but not the first… You’re used to what you’re used to I suppose.

Any help appreciated

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These are standard Plex features.
See ‘On Deck’ in the web client for example.

But you can use them only with real Plex clients. Not with generic DLNA-compatible clients.

3

Okay, thanks for this.

So On Deck is what? The recently viewed?

4

On Deck will present you with “next” episodes which come after those you have watched previously.

5

Thanks again.

So let’s say I’ve partially watched an episode - what will show then? Then episode I’ve partially watched it the next one?

Also, say I’ve watched episodes of two shows, will On Deck do the next door both series?

Thanks again for helping

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Half-watched episodes will appear both in ‘Continue Watching’ and in On Deck.
On Deck is limited to shows watched within the defined time frame under
Settings - Server - Library - “Weeks to consider for On Deck and Continue Watching”

If you want to resume older shows, you use the ‘Unwatched’ filter in the regular tv show library.

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All of this is only possible if Plex can recognize your files as a tv shows.
Which in turn is achieved by naming and organizing the files in a certain way:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/

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Excellent - this is 90% of what I’m after. Next, after the selected episode on deck has been completed - it just sits at the episode detail screen and does not continue to the next episode, which is clearly on deck in the series as when I go back to the main menu, it shows.

So far the only way to play the next episode in the series, is to do just that; go back to the menu and select the next episode on deck - it just seems strange.

Any ideas?

9

Which client type is used? They may behave differently.

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I’m using the client on a Samsung tv

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Older or newer? (Model year)

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It’s a ue43j5500

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Is this one running the old Samsung Smarthub App from Orca?
If so, it might depend on how you start your playback.
Please take a look into the user manual Download the user manual here

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It is using the Smart HUB yes.

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