Saving watch state for videos

[oskarkrawczyk]

While I'm aware this might be a slightly niche feature.

I'd love if the app could save the current watch-state for videos – there are times I rewatch races, but can't watch from start to finish, so a Continue watching segment on the home screen of the app would be absolutely amazing.

[oskarkrawczyk]

Looks like the F1TV now saves the watch state, as far as I can see this is not stored in a cookie or other local storage so perhaps this value is accessible via the "API", and you could tap into that (?)

[NoahFetz]

Thx for the info, I didn't know it was saving it on the desktop. I looked in the api and in fact yes, there is a value that stores the current play head location. I already got it to resume playback at the location and send the timestamp to the server when you pause/close the player. However the server returns an OK response when I want to set the time stamp but it's not saving it right now. So I'll need to analyze the web player a bit more but I call it for today, already spent 2 hours trying to debug this. Do you by any chance know if it saves the current state on the apps or not?

[oskarkrawczyk]

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to restore the playback position in the apps (yet).