The "resume from" option never gives me the right timestamp
from glimse@lemmy.world to jellyfin@lemmy.ml on 20 Jan 18:35
https://lemmy.world/post/41910301
from glimse@lemmy.world to jellyfin@lemmy.ml on 20 Jan 18:35
https://lemmy.world/post/41910301
Background: Jellyfin app on a Roku Ultra, all codecs and episode lengths are affected
Not a significant issue by any means but it happens every time and I don’t know why.
Sunday night I watched Episode 9 of a show then went to bed. Last night, I scrolled to Next Up and selected episode 10. Jellyfin then asked me if I wanted to start at the beginning or resume from 12:42. I THINK the time it gives us 50% through a show (I’ve gotten used to ignoring it)
I have no other players to test but I did confirm it happens on all file types and run times. I did NOT test if it’s accurate when I do stop an episode half way, through.
Is this a Roku-exclusive problem? Is there a solution either way?
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I’ve had this issue as well with the WebOS client. I found that if I hit “back” to exit playback but not the app, it worked fine. The issue was only if I turned off the TV or exited the app, so I simply tried to avoid doing that.
I don’t have any other advice and never managed to actually fix the problem.
That’s so weird but I’ll try it tonight, thanks! I definitely back out to the Roku home screen every time
Maybe back out into the Jellyfin app, then give it a second, then back out to the Roku home screen?
My running theory was that if I quit too quickly, the server would place the timestamp at the end of what had been pulled for buffering, but if I took a second, the webOS client could update the server with the actual timestamp. It seemed to be about 5-8 minutes ahead every time.
I accidentally binged the rest of the show last and never got to try this lol
That’s a pretty good theory, though. I’ll be more scientific about it tonight
Roku provides us no method to know you exited the app. If you don’t press stop, pause, or back out of the video player and instead simply press Home, the server will think you’ve watched up to the end of your buffered amount of the video.