- add folders and media items to the xmb.
- act as user-defined external players.
Jumpy began with my having grown tired of occasionally poaching stuff 'by hand' from xbmc addons for use in PMS, and deciding to see if I could mock the xbmc plugin API itself so as to run these addons under PMS as-is. The result is Jumpy plus jumpy-xbmc, an included set of python modules to 'jump' the xbmc addons.
Jumpy-xbmc works with most xbmc video addons: Hulu, Free Cable, Al Jazeera, PBS, Academic Earth, YouTube, and many more. Addons are 'mostly'

Jumpy itself is general-purpose, of course, and you can use it to plug your own scripts/commands, python or other, into PMS as well.
Jumpy-0.2.3 - 22 September 2012
- misc bugfixes to jumpy-xbmc and webreader.
- new Windows 1-click installer for Jumpy and all tools.
Jumpy-0.2.2 - 5 September 2012
- a config panel in the gui, finally.
- new feature: scripts as players.
- numerous API additions.
- new player scripts:
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webreader - browse snapshots of your web pages.
- requires PMS 1.70+ and phantomjs.
- look on the xmb under Jumpy/Examples/Web Reader for examples
(if Examples is missing see Note 1 below).
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text - play your text files as video.
- find a '.txt' file somewhere and click on it.
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webreader - browse snapshots of your web pages.
Download and unzip to your plugins folder. See also the new Windows Quick Setup.
Readme
Code
Note 1: if you already have a jumpy-scripts.ini in your PMS profile folder, temporarily rename it and restart. Jumpy will write a new default ini with the examples included, then merge your original ini by hand.
Note 2: when reporting bugs please set logging to TRACE and attach PMS.conf + debug.log + jumpy.log + jumpy-scripts.ini + pmsencoder.log together as one zip file (or use the DbgPack plugin).