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Repeated stream requests for Continue Watching movies while idle prevent HDD standby
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Jellyfin
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Description
JellyWatch TV repeatedly requests video data for two movies in “Continue Watching” even though I am not playing either movie. This causes disk reads on my Jellyfin server and prevents the HDDs from entering standby.
Environment:
- Sony KD-75X81J, identified as BRAVIA 4K VH2.
- Jellyfin Server 12.2.0 on Windows.
- Client identifies itself as JellyWatch TV.
- HTTP User-Agent: okhttp/5.5.0.
Observed behaviour:
The client alternates between the two movies approximately every 6 seconds, requesting each movie approximately every 12–13 seconds:
POST /Items/{movieId}/PlaybackInfo
GET /Videos/{movieId}/stream.mkv
Windows disk/file tracing confirms that jellyfin.exe repeatedly reads the corresponding MKV files. I observed the activity continuing overnight.
Confirmation:
After I completely closed JellyWatch on the TV, the repeated accesses stopped and the disks were able to remain idle.
Steps to reproduce in my setup:
1. Have partially watched movies in Continue Watching.
2. Leave JellyWatch open without actively playing a movie.
3. Monitor requests to Jellyfin and disk activity.
4. Completely close JellyWatch: the repeated accesses stop.
Expected behaviour:
Displaying Continue Watching should not continuously request the movie streams. Any preloading or retry activity should be bounded and should stop when no playback is active or the app is in the background.
Could you investigate whether a preview, preload or retry loop is responsible? I can provide a sanitized request log and screenshots of the file activity.
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