So over the years i have accumulated movies on Amazon, MoviesAnywhere, fandango, google play, etc. Those movies are currently “stuck” in those services now, and scattered all over. Is there a plugin that will let me login to those services through plex, and have those movies i own integrate into my media library? I dont mean ripping them, or downloading a copy of them illegally. Ideally the movie would show in my library, and if i wanted to watch a movie that i have on Amazon for example, it would just fire up the amazon app (in Roku) and play it, or maybe even just start playing it, without me even caring where it actually is stored.
I feel like this is a simple thing, but i havent found an easy way to do it. (I also havent looked very hard )
Sorry there is not. All those services have DRM on them which we cannot decrypt to play or do anything with.
We are always reaching out new potential partners such as we did with Tidal. The partner has to want to and agree to it and deals with lawyers and the scope of implementation would need to get worked out. The really big companies like Amazon tend to want users to only to use their app directly on whatever device.
I understand that they have DRM, but isnt there a way to tie the movies into PLEX so they show in the library, but when you click on an Amazon movie, it could actually stream the movie through the amazon service? Or is DRM blocking PLEX even having amazon, moviesanywhere, “channels” apps–like a Roku?
If that’s the case, is there a plugin that would let me import the movies into my plex library, but when i go to “play” them, it would just say–“You own this movie on Amazon, please launch the movie from the appropriate service or device”.
I just want a single library that shows every movie i own in one spot, even if i cant watch them from one spot.
No. We would need to tie into the service to log into your service account and pull all your media history favorites, whatever you have access to, and all the data about the media. We can’t log into another paid service through our app, take their data even just for display. (It isn’t ours or yours, they just let you use it).
Companies have particular ways they want their service to be offered and used. Once Google pulled Youtube from Amazon Fire devices, (if i am remembering correctly) because Amazon just tried to change the layout of how Youtube videos were displayed.
I am not aware of any third party plugin that would do that.
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