I'm not too familiar with python, nor the plea framework, but have background in other programming languages from my job. What i'm looking to do is something like [PseudoTV](https://github.com/Jasonra/XBMC-PseudoTV), but obviously not so complex (as this is my first go at a plugin). Simply, i'd like to just setup some hardcoded "channels" for now, which will randomly playback a video from my library.
Mainly, what I am wondering before I get too far in, but is it possible to write a plugin which will play videos from the plex library? All of the plugins I've seen so far deal with streaming from the internet, i haven't seen any which access local (or server based) content. If someone could point me to a good starter guide/documentation, i'd love to take a crack at this.
Alternatively, would it be easier to try and port PseudoTV over to a Plex format, or am I better going from scratch on this?
A friend sent me a link to this XBMC plugin earlier today and it looks awesome. Exactly like something I’d use when I can’t make up my mind on what to watch or just want to throw on something and surf. I think it’d be great if they could get this ported to Plex, and considering XBMC and Plex share a lot of the same code, it might already have a lot of the work done for whoever wants to take up the task. I might be incorrect on that though. I can see many people liking a feature like this added to Plex or at least using the plugin.
How about a plugin which will buffer 30 seconds from each video clip in your movie library, which will then dump these videos into a interactive video wall that will display short buffered clips of all your movies. You can scroll up and down/side to side on the video wall and when you select a video it'll bring up a brief synopsis of the movie allowing you to play the movie.
That'd be pretty cool, but I think we need to get the simple TV guide display setup working in Plex before we get to something like that. Having this plugin ported would get us that, then we could see about having the video samples.
