Plex Media Server Client in XBMC - Have XBMC support for Plex PMS protocol plex:// ?

Plex uses a closed-source back-end called "PlexMediaServer" which implements a webkit based player. Effectively you're looking at a little window cut out of a web browser window that just gives you the video bit. The web browser handles loading the proprietary netflix silverlight plugin.

We'd certainly be interested in using something similar to what they've done, but given that it's all closed source, it's obviously unavailable to us. We could implement the client side and make users download Plex to get the proprietary server-side bit, but that seems somewhat counter-productive.

I believe there are other solutions to the netflix/hulu problem - there's a UPnP server (actually more than one I believe) app that grabs the netflix/hulu stuff and sends it over to players (such as XBMC). PlayOn is one such option.

Cheers,
Jonathan

I know that this kind of questions may provoke controversial discussions but why not?
It should be not so hard to make it work and after todays announcements that Plex Media Server goes multi platform it is in the XBMC's spirit.

Plus Media Server is the closed source part of Plex.

The interface against it still needs to be opensource so should be possible.

Well I know this probably never gonna happen due to the continiously ongoing pissing contests with the Plex team, but if one looked passed that, would it be possible running PMS as a backend for XBMC?

There's a couple other threads you may wish to checkout. There's nothing stopping it being done (as a plugin) and I've already stated that I'd be more than willing to provide pointers etc. for a plugin author should they decide to take it on. I believe Elan from Plex has also offered his services in a similar role.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Indeed and as long as your plugin set the right content types it would fit the current library views fine. One could even set up direct homepage links to the various sections if you edited the skin a little.
So as jmarshall says its not impossible but pretty sure the current dev team for xbmc have little interest in doing it for themselves but are more than happy for someone else to try.

Here's a link with some info in it to get you started:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...hlight=PMS

Cheers,
Jonathan

thanks for the replies. Plex serving XBMC running confluence would really be a dream scenario. Homepage links would be sweet. Its the Plex navigation and looks i disslike. XBMC looks, and handles much nicer. And imo, looks play a big part in MediaCenter software.

Judging by the amount of posts relating to unified library, SQL and the likes, Im guessing someone smarter than me will make it happen.

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