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I have observed a strange behavior when watching recorded series remotely. This has been going on sporadically for at least a month, but today I noticed it on several series.
The issue seems to be related to channels dvr getting confused where playback should occur (indexing?) thinking an episode has been fully watched when it wasnt. The weird symptom is the episode will play a minute or so but then skip all the way to the end of the episode preparing for the next episode. The transport indicates 0 seconds left in the episode thats playing, and the next episode prompt will appear (if enabled) while the existing episode continues playing. There is no way to manually skip back or adjust where the program is on the timeline - no matter what you do the material keeps jumping to the end.
Ive have narrowed this down a bit. It seems to only happen remotely. I use tailscale (server based - not the built in channels tailscale). When i get home the same programs behave normally without doing anything other than joining my wifi network.
Remotley, ive tried toggling the individual show as watched and then unwatched (and then I tried the entire series) using the ios app. I also went into the channels server remotely and used the library to mark the shows as unwatched.
Even though it appears the series is unwatched, when playing back the episode the transport still jumps to the end of the show, displays the “up next” banner while finishing with 0 seconds left, getting ready for the next episode. I had one series daisy chain itself like this by hitting subsequent “up next” buttons and the whole series was unwatchable. There was simply no way to unwatch these shows.
This occurs on the release ios version as well as the latest test flight. Im using the latest mac server pre-release.
Happens on more than just one show. Some were TVE shows, some were recorded on my ah4c tuner. I think ive seen this on playon shows as well.
As soon as i go local on my home network, the problem resolves itself.
Very weird, and frustrating not to be able to get unwatched behavior back today until I got home.