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 <i>mostly</i> works, except sometimes it doesn't and it's all but impossible to work out why.<p>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.<p>There is a rival service, Emby, which is open source:<p><a href="https://emby.media" rel="nofollow">https://emby.media</a><p>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.
So plex profits from yet another GPL software, this time MPD (<a href="https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/blob/master/COPYING" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/blob/master/COPYING</a>)<p>The previous being ffmpeg which they openly admit to have internally forked in the swedish podcast kodsnack.<p>They must publish their code modifications to comply with GPL.<p>When is a good time to take these freeloaders to court?