Played status when using an external player

[signde 26]

I'm using the latest "Emby for Android" app available in the Play Store on a Dune HD Pro 8K Plus device. The Dune HD device runs AOSP 11.

I have the Emby app configured to use an external player for playback which is the Dune HD player. I do this because Dune's player has deeper integration with the device allowing for use of the VS10 engine among other reasons. This works well for playback, I've encountered no issues and everything plays as expected.

What I have observed however is when using this external player, the played status of the videos never gets updated. I've noticed this with every video I've played going back a few months when I started using Emby on this device. I can watch a video until the credits roll and yet the status of the video is never updated to played.

Is this expected with external players on Android devices?

[Luke 42555]

Hi, for an external player it should be marked as played regardless of how much you play. Is that not what you're seeing?

[signde 26]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, for an external player it should be marked as played regardless of how much you play. Is that not what you're seeing?

No, that is not what I am seeing. 

The video stays as not played.

[Luke 42555]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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Thanks!

 

[signde 26]

17 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks!

 

Reproduced the problem. Watched episode 4 of Mayor of Kingstown.

I watched the progress meter progress all the way through the duration of the file. Server dashboard shows start and end time, the exact duration of the episode.

Episode still shows as unwatched.

I see these lines in the log:

2026-06-11 12:36:54.906 Info SessionManager: Playback start reported by app Emby for Android 3.5.36 on Dune Pro 8K Plus playing Mayor of Kingstown - S1, Ep4 - The Price. Position: 0 ms. PlaySessionId: 13024849a329476d932b851bdee070f9. IsPaused: False

2026-06-11 13:23:26.055 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Android 3.5.36 on Dune Pro 8K Plus playing Mayor of Kingstown - S1, Ep4 - The Price. Position: 0 ms. PlaySessionId: 13024849a329476d932b851bdee070f9. IsPaused: False

2026-06-11 13:23:26.057 Info SessionManager: Removed playSession 13024849a329476d932b851bdee070f9 from session 076983a652da27e1393ff2e94c32226d

I suspect the issue here is that the playback position still reads 0 ms at the end even though I watched the video in its entirety. If I look at the logs from anther video I watched via infuse on the Apple TV, it shows an actual value on that log entry.

Full server log attached.

 

 

 

embyserver.txt

[Luke 42555]

OK we'll take a look at it. Thanks.