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Plex Introduces Plexamp

by grep4master on 12/18/17, 9:07 PM with 13 comments

• by untog on 12/18/17, 10:10 PM

  I wish Plex would focus a little. They're simply not big enough to be doing the number of things they're doing and do them well. I'm currently using Plex as a DVR service for my cable TV and it mostly works, except sometimes it doesn't and it's all but impossible to work out why.

  It's all the more infuriating because so much of what they do is based on open source stuff (the original version was based on XBMC, though I think little of that is left now), but they don't open source anything themselves. I'd love to take a dig through the code to maybe fix these issues myself but I can't.

  There is a rival service, Emby, which is open source:

  https://emby.media

  Last I looked their frontend apps were lacking (and that's not an area I can help in, sadly) but it might be time to take another look.

• by flexplexx on 12/18/17, 9:29 PM

  So plex profits from yet another GPL software, this time MPD (https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/blob/master/COPYING)

  The previous being ffmpeg which they openly admit to have internally forked in the swedish podcast kodsnack.

  They must publish their code modifications to comply with GPL.

  When is a good time to take these freeloaders to court?