love the idea of being able to have plex launch an external player (specifically a madvr loaded player), and came across the following github offering that claims to be able to do it using plex’s web browser app: [image] Kayomani/PlexExternalPlayer Allows you to use Plex to browse your me…

thank you very much for your reply… i checked out the link but it seems that the shim can only be used with mpv (or an mpv based player), i.e. no madvr, is that correct? if so, what is the purpose of the shim given plex already uses mpv, and if you’re not happy with the mpv version plex uses you ca…

I never used PlexExternalPlayer, sorry. You can have a try. Even if an external player can be used, it would never sync the status of playback to PMS. I didn’t know that mpv-1.dll can be replaced. Thank you for telling me that.

GitHub PlexExternalPlayer (Kayomani) - Is Anyone Using It?

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rosystain March 12, 2020, 10:16am 3

It was dead.
Plex MPV Shim dose the same thing with a different method which I consider better.

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GitHub PlexExternalPlayer (Kayomani) - Is Anyone Using It?

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