Watch times not tracking

[mingyee2]

What happened?

With the appropriate setting on, I expect the view count and watch times to increase as I watch more videos from a channel, but they’ve incremented very intermittently for almost a year now. I recently discovered that it seems to never increase either when watched as part of a playlist or queue, but the watch time (and sometimes view count, though that seems less consistent) will increase when I just click a video from, say, my subscriptions tab.

Grayjay Version

276

What plugins are you seeing the problem on?

All

Plugin Version

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When do you experience the issue?

• While logged in
• While logged out
• N/A

Relevant log output

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[mingyee2]

It is possible that it is linked to playback speed. Testing with a video on a channel with a low watch time, I noticed the watch time (in seconds) stopped increasing when I set to 1.5 speed, but restarted immediately when changed back to 1.0 speed. Since I watch my playlists on increased speed but individual videos more often on 1.0 speed, that might be the cause. I’ll do more testing and report my observations.

[mingyee2]

Seems the time tracking works after all, even if in a playlists, but only on 1x speed, as noted in the previous comment. Not sure the conditions under which the view count increments, though.

[cyberdragon442]

This also seems to happen on really long Youtube videos. Just watched a just under 2hr podcast (normal speed) and the watchtime bar only shows about 15-30 mins of watchtime and it popped back up to the top of the feed as if I hadn't watched all of it.

[mingyee2]

@Zvonimir-FUTO I added more details to reproduce this bug in the comments here. Are you able to reproduce the bug, by any chance?

[Zvonimir-FUTO]

@Zvonimir-FUTO I added more details to reproduce this bug in the comments here. Are you able to reproduce the bug, by any chance?

Hey, thanks for bump I was able to reproduce it but forgot to label it.

[mingyee2]

@cyberdragon442 You might be referring to something else. I meant the total watch time, as listed on the creators tab. It sounds like you’re talking about the bar on videos showing how much has been watched?