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Resume Playing

With the Resume Playing users are able to automatically resume content where it left off and which has been played on the specific device.

The feature has two modes:

On device (Local): all watching data is saved on the device itself. Available for Mobie only because of memory issues on TVs platforms.

Cross-Device (Remote): all watching data is stored on a remote server and can be persistent on all the specific user's devices.

Prerequisites

Remote implementation will require to implement APIs on the server and will require to hook into a login mechanism to be able to identify the same user on different devices.

For implementing please read the follow:

Implementing "Video Stopped" cloud event

Implementing "Continue Watching" feeds

Plugin Configuration

Add the Continue Watching plugin.

Modify the feature setting according to your needs:

Minimum content duration means that bellow the minimum duration the content won't be tracked.

Completion threshold is the default duration from the end of the content to consider it viewed and clear it from tracked items.

Update frequency The number of seconds between two updates of the resume time.

Maximum number of items tracked is the number of tracked and saved items.

Image asset key name defines the key that is used for the image assigned to the continue watching data source (image_base). Relevant only for Mobile or Server Sync.

Remote Mode Implementation

Enable server sync: Toggle if to enable/disable remote syncing

Watched segment URL: The URL of the "Video Stopped" cloud event

User identifier storage key: The plugin will use this key to identify the user. To determine what is the storage key name, please consult with you account manager or your custom login plugin developers

Synced feed: The Feed JSON holds the list of videos the user started and didn't finish. To develop your own custom synced feed please refer to the Implementing "Continue Watching" feeds doc.

Promote unfinished items on a screen

Local Mode (Mobile only)

You can promote a component with the content that can be resumed. In order to do so, create a new pipes feed with the URL

 pipesv2://continue-watching 

Then, Create a component with cell style and use the feed you’ve created. The component will display once the users will have a content that they started to watch.

Cross-Device (Remote)

Create a normal JSON feed that holds the list of unfinished items. Read here on how to implement it.