Objects (Definition and Usage)

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Hi,

My apologies, as I’m sure this is a dumb question, but I just can’t find the info. Trying to create a plug-in to play back some video files, but I can’t figure out when to use the different objects, and what is needed to make it work (e.g. EpisodeObject, VideoObject, VideoClip, parts, codecs, etc.). Is this captured somewhere perhaps?

Thanks!

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Here is the manual for the framework

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Thanks! I guess what I’m missing yet (and it’s me!) … when are the different objects used, and how to get Plex to play an item (i.e. create an object of some type, let Plex control and play it from there).

Make sense?

Thanks again.

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The agent just populate metadata but the scanner list the files and pass the files to Plex so it appears in the web interface. The file can be added and not be readable necessarily by Plex (exemple: https://github.com/NoMoreNicksLeft/Video-Games-Scanner).

Have a look at my scanner, you could tweak it to list certain file extensions, but you cannot teach Plex how to play those if it cannot…

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Thanks very much! Will dig into this more this weekend … :).