Hi all,
I’m very keen to move my main media center over from XBMC to Plex permanently, but there are certain XBMC addons that I have to have. I am interested in trying to port those plugins over to Plex. I have a little programming knowledge and just want to know how big a rewrite something like this would be.
I haven’t looked at how the Plex channels are written yet but would something like this be too much effort or is it worth it?
Depending on the channel, it can be quite a lot of effort. The architectures are totally different - the Plex plug-in architecture was created from the ground up by our team, and shares no common code with the XBMC add-on system. Furthermore, Plex plug-ins are written for the media server and need to work with all Plex clients, and therefore have less control over the UI they can present. Most media-playing channels could probably be made to work in a similar manner, but more esoteric add-ons (mostly those with lots of custom UI) won’t be possible to port.
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