Mark Episode Watched and move to the next?

[FatherSaint 11]

Emby Premiere : Roku 4 Ultra : HTPC

• Emby will sometimes mark a TV show as Watched and set up the next one so that you just have to click Play to proceed.
• More often than not, Emby marks the episode as Watched, but you have to arrow down and manually select the next episode and then click Play.

This is obviously not a big deal, but I wonder if there is some kind of configuration or settings that are responsible for this. For example, ALL of the Chicago universe requires that we down-arrow to the next episode and choose it, where Reservation Dogs DID mark the episodes watched and queue the next one for play until I got to S02E06 - now I have to arrow-down and choose the next one.

This makes me think that the "issue" is in the video, which is exclusively MP4 or MKV with subtitles in PGS or SRT.

Lastly, I've been happy with the Roku4 but am starting to think about getting a nVidia Shield Pro to see how things go with that device.

[ebr 15337]

Hi.  Have you chosen the option to auto queue next episodes?

Exactly what screen are you playing from?

[FatherSaint 11]

• I do NOT have "play next episode automatically" enabled.
• I'm playing the videos from the main screen > continue watching.

The odd thing is that some shows do work as I would like: the episode finishes, it marks it played and moves ahead to the next episode, ready for me to simply push play.

It's absolutely not a big deal. As I mentioned, I'm guessing that because some shows do that and others don't, it might be something in the video encoding...?

[Gilgamesh_48 1034]

To me Emby screwed up continue watching some time ago. Fortunately they also made a next up legacy that, for me, works a LOT better than the new improved (screwed up) continue watching. The only drawback is, in home screen settings if you do not uncheck most of your libraries "Display in secondary home screen sections such as latest media and continue watching" setting you will end up with a very cluttered and confusing "Next up legacy." 

What I have done is uncheck every library except TV shows. 

That means to find movies I have partially watched I have to enter the library and use the "suggestions" tab but, over all, the next up legacy solves a LOT of problems for me.

Home screen looks a lot like this:
1. Next up legacy
2. My media
3. Continue watching
4+ Other sections that I almost never even look at.

Disclaimer: Emby has said that "Next up legacy" is temporary but I hope its EOL comes after mine.  

I do not know if next up legacy will give you what you want but it is worth a try.

Note: If you use next up legacy it changes continue watching's behavior.

The one thing I wish Emby would do is have a setting that allows Movies to be excluded from next up legacy but included in continue watching.

[ebr 15337]

4 hours ago, FatherSaint said:

The odd thing is that some shows do work

That has to be related to your resume settings in the library setup on the server.  Make sure the % required to mark complete isn't too aggressive (too close to 100).

[FatherSaint 11]

3 hours ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

To me Emby screwed up continue watching some time ago. Fortunately they also made a next up legacy that, for me, works a LOT better than the new improved (screwed up) continue watching. The only drawback is, in home screen settings if you do not uncheck most of your libraries "Display in secondary home screen sections such as latest media and continue watching" setting you will end up with a very cluttered and confusing "Next up legacy." 

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Thank you, I'll check this out.

 

[FatherSaint 11]

13 minutes ago, ebr said:

That has to be related to your resume settings in the library setup on the server.  Make sure the % required to mark complete isn't too aggressive (too close to 100).

It was on 90, which I think is the default and I haven't changed most settings. I put it on 75 to see what happens...

Thanks for your help with this!

[Luke 38493]

6 hours ago, FatherSaint said:

It was on 90, which I think is the default and I haven't changed most settings. I put it on 75 to see what happens...

Thanks for your help with this!

Just keep in mind for a 20 minute episode, 75% means you could stop while still having five minutes to and the server will treat it like you watched the whole thing. You may find that undesirable at times.