Certain Plex components contain open source software, including:

  • XBMC: The most important one, since the Plex Mac client is based on XBMC code.
  • Team RazorFish: The talented team who created the lovely MediaStream skin.
  • FFmpeg: Without this, there would be no decoding of video inside Plex. A critical component, to be sure.
  • SQLite: The media database is stored using this excellent, industry standard free database.
  • CxImage: The workhorse code responsible for loading images and photos. It uses lots of other libraries like libJPEG, libPNG, etc.
  • FreeType: This code is responsible for the beautiful rendering of fonts inside the application.
  • Python: The media center embeds the Python interpreter to provide powerful scripting functionality.
  • Many others...