Mon Nov 16, 2020 1:29 am by atc98092
Since you are using something Android based, have you tried using Kodi as your player? I have the '17 and '19 Nvidia Shield players, and Kodi marks them as played without a problem. How does Serviio determine an episode has been viewed? I can't say for certain, but my guess is it determines when the file has reached 100%, or perhaps in the high 90s. It then has a field in the database that is set to indicate it was the last episode viewed.
While I have VLC installed on my Shields, as well as a couple of Windows PCs, I don't use it for playback on the Shields. I don't care for the user interface with VLC, although it's an exceptional player. For my family users, Kodi is just far simpler to navigate.
I just fired up VLC on one of my Shields, and went to a TV series that I know I have watched. It shows the two ** on the Season I most recently watched, and when I view the titles I see the ** next to the title I know I watched just yesterday. So it appears that VLC correctly shows the last viewed marking that Serviio offers. Of course, that last viewed was using Kodi, so I can't say if VLC would do the same. I just tried watching the next episode, but VLC is freezing the image shortly after playback begins. The audio continues, so it's not like the app has frozen. I fast forwarded and the video would start, but then it freezes again. Guess I won't bother using VLC as my player.
EDIT: I do see a setting under Interface labeled "Show seen video marker". Do you have that enabled?
Dan
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