Get to Know PlayOn Plugin Channels and MyMedia



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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>What are PlayOn Plugins?</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="/channel-store" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 129, 139);">Plugins for PlayOn</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>allow third-party partner companies and the open source community to develop custom feeds to pretty much any media content. We have provided a<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="/channels" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 129, 139);">simple API</a>, and developers who are familiar with the .NET framework can easily create and distribute their own Plugins.&nbsp; We have a variety of additional plugin channels to choose from in our <a href="http://www.playon.tv/channel-store">Plugin Channel Store</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>How do I configure my antivirus/firewall software to work with PlayOn?</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In your security software configuration settings, you must give<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><strong>full local and online network access</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to the PlayOn server executable. On normal installations, this can be found at<code>C:\Program Files\MediaMall\MediaMallServer.exe</code>. In our development labs, we use AVG and Windows Firewall. These consistently work fine for us, so we can highly recommend them, also because they don&#39;t degrade PC performance as much as many other third-party security packages.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Can I see local media files from my PC&#39;s hard drive through PlayOn?</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes! And it&#39;s free as a part of the <a href="http://www.playon.tv/mymedia">MyMedia</a> and as part of PlayOn. Although, this feature is currently in beta, you can choose to enable local media file sharing, or &quot;MyMedia&quot;, and select specific directories on your PC&#39;s hard drive to share through PlayOn. Any media files in those directories should show up through the &quot;MyMedia&quot; folder. As this is still a beta feature, there are some limitations; first off, most content will always be automatically transcoded on the fly -- much like how PlayOn processes online media -- even if your connected device could potentially handle the native file directly. This means that fast forwarding can be an issue for many devices. Also, media you share through a network device will often not be correctly discovered through PlayOn. We&#39;re working on fixing both of these issues, as well as making big improvements in the &quot;MyMedia&quot; feature in general, so stay tuned!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>MyMedia Update 05.14.2013</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">MyMedia is out of beta! You can now get MyMedia as a standalone local media server.</span><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&gt;&gt;<strong> </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="/mymedia">Download MyMedia here</a>.</span></strong></p>

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