Developer Docs

Guides for building on and extending Phlix. For architecture and contribution workflow, see the engineering docs; for API and CLI specifics, see the Reference.

Live TV, tuners & DVR

• DVR Developer Guide — recording pipeline and scheduling.
• HDHomeRun Tuner Driver
• IPTV Tuner Driver
• Linux DVB-T USB Tuner Driver
• Schedules Direct EPG Integration
• HLS Live TV Relay
• Comskip Commercial Skip for Live TV Recordings

Streaming & playback

• Streaming Protocols
• Stream Quality / Adaptive Bitrate (ABR)
• Hardware Acceleration Guide
• Subtitle Processing

Media analysis

• ChromaPrint Integration — audio fingerprinting.
• Intro/Outro Detection

Metadata, collections & playlists

• Media Index API
• SSDP + mDNS Discovery
• Collections
• Smart Playlists Developer Guide
• Music Metadata Providers
• Trailers and Extras
• Theme Media

Plugins & theming

• Scrobbler Plugin Guide
• Last.fm Scrobble Plugin
• UI Theme Plugin Guide

See also

• Plugin SDK — plugin internals reference.
• Contributing to Phlix