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prae5 Wrote:His post says that he wouldn't be happy with it being in core xbmc and it should be done as an addon. Completely different from it not being in the xbmc repo. As others have mentioned, no reason for it not to be in the repo providing there are no issues with it.

Thanks - not wanting to contradict you but davilla said (my bold):

davilla Wrote:I would veto any such addition to XBMC core code or official XBMC addons repo...

He then goes on to say that it would be okay as an unoffical addon. I interpreted this as a veto on adding a PMS interface plugin to the official repo.

It obvious that not everyone has this view, which is appreciated, and assuming I haven't hacked anyone off in make this post we'll submit for offical later on..

Thanks for all the help - i've really enjoyed building my first XBMC plugin..

hippojay Wrote:Thanks - not wanting to contradict you but davilla said (my bold):



He then goes on to say that it would be okay as an unoffical addon. I interpreted this as a veto on adding a PMS interface plugin to the official repo.

It obvious that not everyone has this view, which is appreciated, and assuming I haven't hacked anyone off in make this post we'll submit for offical later on..

Thanks for all the help - i've really enjoyed building my first XBMC plugin..

We haven't afaik really discussed it thoroughly internally mainly because there have not been a reason to do so (no addon yet for inclussion). When you submit the addon for official inclusion we will obviously have that discussion and as such there are no guarantees either way. The addon talking to private and closed source is not really the issue as many other addons does that but what they have done to gain market is in a moral grey area as they have leveraged xbmc open source without really contributing anything significant back, however this is as said just moral stuff and their PMS is in fact completely separated and their IP (if we assume they aren't using floss stuff illegally in the server) and can be viewed as a server like any other closed equivalent.

Cheers,
Tobias

prae5 Wrote:His post says that he wouldn't be happy with it being in core xbmc and it should be done as an addon. Completely different from it not being in the xbmc repo. As others have mentioned, no reason for it not to be in the repo providing there are no issues with it.

Hate to disagree with you, but reading his post it specifically vetos the addition to XBMC core or the official add-ons repo. Davilla does not want to support Plex in any such way... since they use XBMC (open source) to increase their value.

Davilla supports it as an unofficial add-on. This does not mean that others would not like it to be official though.

bmcclure937 Wrote:Hate to disagree with you, but reading his post it specifically vetos the addition to XBMC core or the official add-ons repo. Davilla does not want to support Plex in any such way... since they use XBMC (open source) to increase their value.

Davilla supports it as an unofficial add-on. This does not mean that others would not like it to be official though.

The proper statement is I will not block it. I still don't support it's usage and will never give any tech support or assistance involving it.

davilla Wrote:The proper statement is I will not block it. I still don't support it's usage and will never give any tech support or assistance involving it.

I thought a read that they opened it recently?

EDIT: I stand corrected, they did not, they only published access keys.

Thanks all for clarifing your various positions. I think we'll probably submit a request and see what happens.

Ta

updated the plugin, added the FrontSeat skin, and released the homepage script to add PMS shares to FrontSeat home page.

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topi...-exporter/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5Tm9cWQJA

Don't get your hopes up. I will veto this for inclusion in the xbmc official addons repo. I've stated my reasons and those reasons are firm.

davilla Wrote:Don't get your hopes up. I will veto this for inclusion in the xbmc official addons repo. I've stated my reasons and those reasons are firm.

I don't have my hopes up. It would be nice, but in the long run I don't care. I'll host it as long as people want it. I didn't bring up putting it in the repo. A community member did. Then your buds said it was possible, asong as it met the guidelines, that's all. Of course you then said you wouldn't block it. Nice to know you're consistent.

Host it, don't host it. Who gives a crap? I don't even use it.

davilla Wrote:The proper statement is I will not block it. I still don't support it's usage and will never give any tech support or assistance involving it.

davilla Wrote:Don't get your hopes up. I will veto this for inclusion in the xbmc official addons repo. I've stated my reasons and those reasons are firm.

I dont get it? which one is it? English isnt my native language but isnt vetoing something just the same as blocking it?

I wish you would reconsider. I love what youve done for the ios devices (and osx for that matter) and really prefer having my movies decoded on the devise rather than transcoded, atleast when Im at home on my local network. but scraping 1200+ movies and god knows how many tv episodes on a phone or a pad? Hardly seems user friendly.

I really want official xbmc support, installing these addons for jailbroken ios devices manually seems lika a pita.