Develop PlayOn Plugins with PlayOn Plugin API

The PlayOn Plugin API allows content publishers to add their video content to the PlayOn platform. We are currently still in the preliminary design phases of the plugin architecture. If you are a content publisher and are interested in adding your videos to PlayOn, please contact us for more information.

Distributing your own Plugins

Our intention with the PlayOn Plugin API is to allow content providers and third-party developers to enrich the PlayOn experience for everyone's benefit. By developing or distributing a plugin for the PlayOn platform, you are bound by the terms and conditions of the PlayOn software license agreement and of the PlayOn Plugin API.

If you are distributing plugins elsewhere, please do let us know -- we'd love to hear about it, and potentially add a link to your site as well.

Development Tools and Documentation

If you're interested in creating your own plugin for PlayOn, we have written some documentation and sample code to help you get started. Please note that this API is still in preliminary alpha design stages, so we apologize in advance if the API changes in the future!

Here's what you need to get started:

• Preliminary documentation for the PlayOn Plugin API.
• Util.dll XML for Visual Studio inline documentation.
• Sample code. This is a .NET 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 project, written in C#.
• Experimental installer generator. You can use this to bundle your plugin file to make installations a breeze.

Third-party tools:

• Plugin Debugger. The folks at playonplugins.com have created this useful tool to make plugin development more efficient.

Have questions or comments about the API? Feel free to reach our developers by emailing us. We plan on expanding the SDK greatly, and any feedback you may have will certainly help us moving forward.