Alright, so I tried Plex yesterday (on a Mac), not bad at all, but while trying I stumbled on some things with a few addons I really found annoying. The most annoying ones include:
- Pause not working properly in Flash-based plugins (such as Hulu), if I hit an arrow key (intuition would dictate that’s seeking) it pauses, but there’s no way to resume. Space bar has no effect whatsoever, and since I tried in a browser, it doesn’t just pass through the keys to the flash plugin, since there space par DOES pause and resume.
- Poor exception handling in the netflix plugin (“An error occurred, try again later”).
Alright, since the addons seem to be written in python mainly and I do speak python I’ve taken a look. For the second problem I found where it happens, so I have a way to debug it (and I will eventually fix it and post information what I did somewhere, so the maintainers of the plugin can include the fix).
However, about the first problem: The obvious fix would be to map space bar in flash-based plugins (let’s stick with Hulu) to space bar passed on to the plugin. My problem is I can’t find the part of the plugin where this is done (key mapping), and the documentation of plugin development seems to ignore actual playback completely. With simply a way to change the key mapping in a plugin, I could “fix” several plugins. Any hints on where to look?
