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"> </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"> </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. 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"> </span><strong>full local and online network access</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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'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's hard drive through PlayOn?</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes! And it'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 "MyMedia", and select specific directories on your PC's hard drive to share through PlayOn. Any media files in those directories should show up through the "MyMedia" 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're working on fixing both of these issues, as well as making big improvements in the "MyMedia" 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;">>><strong> </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="/mymedia">Download MyMedia here</a>.</span></strong></p>
