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If you close a video when there is 30 seconds left VLC marks it as completed and erases the progrees.

Hi,
This is done on purpose. The medialibrary has a bunch of condition to determine if a media is played.

Can you add a feature to mark a video as completed when it is watched completely?

You mean a setting to mark it as watched only if it's played until the end?

Yes

That would be possible, however before doing so I'm interested in knowing how long your media is. Maybe we could add a bit more granularity to the way we detect the end of a media.

I watch movies and internet videos with VLC. So my videos can be anywhere from 5 seconds long to 3 hours long.

I'm not sure what the right approach is. For now what we do is we consider the video has been played up to the end if the playback reaches:
- The last 5% percent of the playback if it's less than 1hours long
- The last 4% if it's between 1 and 2 hours
- And so on until it's more than 4 hours, in which case we consider the playback to have reached the completion when it gets the final 1% of the video.

Forcing the playback to be marked as complete only when the final frame has been displayed seems annoying, that means when you are done watching a movie, it wouldn't be marked as complete until you have watched the entire credits, which isn't what I'd want, and that wasn't the previous behavior as well.
We can always add more settings, but I don't think that's a road we would like to go down.

Having a way to explicitly mark a video as complete through user interaction would also be an option.

If you have a specific example of a media that you felt was wrongly marked as completed, what was its duration, when did you stop the playback, and what should have been the expected result for you?

I watched the Iron Man movie from 2008 and closed the video during the last 60 seconds. It is a 2 hour movie but there is a scene that plays in the last 60 seconds.

I closed it during the last 60 seconds then VLC marked it as completed and erased the progress. I wanted VLC to save the progress so I could watch that scene.

Having a way to explicitly mark a video as complete through user interaction would also be an option.

It has been added in the (unreleased) 3.3.1 version BTW.