Stop button for video

[kaynemo 13]

This might sound strange, but:  when playing back music there is stop button. When pressed, the media stops, not pauses and is (I think) considered "listened", will not appear in the "currently listening list". There is no such button for video playback only pause. Would be too much trouble to request such function? To tell the server that the playback of the video has stopped and the file is considered as "watched" so it wouldn't appear in the "currently watching" section?

 

Thanks

[ebr 16178]

Hi.  The concept of a "stop" button has pretty much vanished from modern media players.  Instead, you just back out of what you are playing to stop it.  None of the modern streaming boxes even have a stop button on their remote.

[kaynemo 13]

I totally get it, but in Emby, when you back out, the system regards the paused video file as "currently watching" and keeps it that way until you ether tag it deliberately as watched. If several of sloppy people use one account and don't do just that, the main screen is soon cluttered with the "continue watching" videos. Not a biggie, though, I agree.

[ebr 16178]

I totally get it, but in Emby, when you back out, the system regards the paused video file as "currently watching" and keeps it that way until you ether tag it deliberately as watched. If several of sloppy people use one account and don't do just that, the main screen is soon cluttered with the "continue watching" videos. Not a biggie, though, I agree.

 

Adding a stop button would not (and should not) change that behavior.  If you don't want your items to have resume functionality, you could adjust the resume settings in the server.

[The_ERROR 4]

Sorry for resurrection, but I guess, that it would be better to resurrect this, then creating of clone of the same topic. 

 

I found the stop button missing in case, I'm looking to vid, but actually do not plan to finish it or make some note, where time I'm in watching it. In such case I just seek to several time and then I would like to press stop, to make sure, that any changes of watched status will not happen, including adding it to "no watching" list. 

 

I really love the plex solution:

 - stops means, stop and I do not want to look anymore (in case of stopping at the end, it's marked as a seen.

 - going back to menu from movie will keep it in list of "actual watching" with time  I left. 

 

for me, it makes perfectly sense, but missing of stop button no, at all. 

[Luke 42078]

Hi, what Emby app are you referring to? In most cases you can just press back to stop.

[The_ERROR 4]

Hi, what Emby app are you referring to? In most cases you can just press back to stop.

 

Web UI

[ebr 16178]

I really love the plex solution:

 - stops means, stop and I do not want to look anymore (in case of stopping at the end, it's marked as a seen.

 - going back to menu from movie will keep it in list of "actual watching" with time  I left. 

 

for me, it makes perfectly sense, but missing of stop button no, at all. 

 

Personally, I think that subtlety would be lost on almost everyone and people would have no idea why their resume status is not being saved and report it as a bug.

 

I've never seen any other video platform behave like that.

[miniliQuid 94]

Would have to agree that this would be very confusing for some.

The good thing about it is that you can skip pressing "watched" after you backed out of the movie.

But I think I rather do the extra step once in a while when needed, than try explaining to everyone what the stop button is for

[Luke 42078]

Web UI

 

Have you tried just pressing the back button?

[ebr 16178]

Have you tried just pressing the back button?

 

He wants different functionality than backing out.

[miniliQuid 94]

I think what Error is requesting is similar to the OP.

 

Keep the back button to do what it is already doing.

Have a stop button that cancels the movie (without remembering time you stopped it) but not checks it as watched nor puts it in "continue playing" list.

Kind of like you never watched that movie at all (slightly different from OP since he mentioned that having it checked as "watched" is fine).

 

Personally don't see much use for this except for rare occasions, but maybe others are interested in something like this?

[The_ERROR 4]

I think what Error is requesting is similar to the OP.

 

Keep the back button to do what it is already doing.

Have a stop button that cancels the movie (without remembering time you stopped it) but not checks it as watched nor puts it in "continue playing" list.

Kind of like you never watched that movie at all (slightly different from OP since he mentioned that having it checked as "watched" is fine).

 

Personally don't see much use for this except for rare occasions, but maybe others are interested in something like this?

 

exactly. Most often use case for me is verifying quality of movie, handled by automatic script, or choosing the better one in case I have duplicates, or just seek a bit in movie to help me decide, if I want to watch or if didn't watch it already.

 

Especially during searching in TV Shows it's really annoying to track every miss I do..

Edited February 26, 2019 by The_ERROR

[Carlo 4561]

I get the request.  Basically a "check out the video" way of playing something without affecting watched or continue status which also could change status on trakt.

 

I too like to sometimes just cruise through movies as well looking for things I might want to watch.  Could be viewing trailers or scanning through parts of the actual movie.  I then add them to a playlist.

 

I solved this problem myself my creating a "test" account on my system.  I normally use Chrome for everything but have this "test" account setup/logged in with Firefox.  Now when I want to verify files, test playback, scan through movies I use Firefox/test account on my computer and never worry about it changing my watched status, messing up my continue or Next Up hubs.

 

Sometimes a simple solution like this is easier to do then asking for changes to the code which can make things confusing for others who rely on specific features.