Lost your Plays.tv clips? Segra is the spiritual successor, and it can bring them back.
Plays.tv shut down on 15 December 2019. All accounts and uploaded videos were deleted. If you had years of LoL or CS:GO highlights there, they're gone, unless they happen to live in the Internet Archive. Segra is the open-source spiritual successor for the format: auto-clipping, simple sharing, and a public clip page like the one Plays gave you.
TL;DR
Plays.tv is gone. Segra is what you would want it to be in 2026: open source, no ads, no watermarks. And segra.tv can surface any of your old Plays.tv clips that were archived by the Wayback Machine.
Segra vs Plays.tv
Facts verified against the Plays.tv documentation as of 2026-05-22.
- Segra
- Active
- Plays.tv
- Defunct (shut down 15 Dec 2019)
- Segra
- Free
- Plays.tv
- Was free
- Segra
- Open source (GPLv2)
- Plays.tv
- Was proprietary (Raptr, then acquired)
- Segra
- Windows 10/11
- Plays.tv
- Was Windows
- Segra
- 4K
- Plays.tv
- Was 1080p
- Segra
- 144 FPS
- Plays.tv
- Was 60 FPS
- Segra
- 9 games (CS2, Dota 2, LoL, Minecraft, PUBG, Rocket League, Rust, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, War Thunder)
- Plays.tv
- Used to support LoL, CS:GO, Dota 2 and others
- Segra
- Optional segra.tv (free, no expiry)
- Plays.tv
- Was bundled, then deleted on shutdown
- Segra
- segra.tv can resolve archived Plays.tv URLs via the Wayback Machine
- Plays.tv
- No (medal.tv owns the domain now but redirects)
| Feature | Segra | Plays.tv |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Defunct (shut down 15 Dec 2019) |
| Price | Free | Was free |
| Source code | Open source (GPLv2) | Was proprietary (Raptr, then acquired) |
| Platform | Windows 10/11 | Was Windows |
| Max resolution | 4K | Was 1080p |
| Max frame rate | 144 FPS | Was 60 FPS |
| Auto-clipping | 9 games (CS2, Dota 2, LoL, Minecraft, PUBG, Rocket League, Rust, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, War Thunder) | Used to support LoL, CS:GO, Dota 2 and others |
| Cloud hosting | Optional segra.tv (free, no expiry) | Was bundled, then deleted on shutdown |
| Plays.tv clip recovery | segra.tv can resolve archived Plays.tv URLs via the Wayback Machine | No (medal.tv owns the domain now but redirects) |
Why pick Segra
- Same idea (auto-clip your matches and get shareable links), but open source and not dependent on a company that might disappear.
- GPLv2 license means the project can't be quietly shut down. Anyone can fork it.
- segra.tv hosts your clips for free with no expiry and no ads.
- For some old Plays.tv URLs that were preserved in the Internet Archive, segra.tv can resolve and stream them through a dedicated viewer.
- Records up to 4K at 144 FPS today, not 1080p/60.
What happened to Plays.tv
Plays.tv was a clipping service originally built by Raptr. It was acquired and quietly shut down at 23:50 ET on 15 December 2019. All user accounts, all uploaded clips, and the share URLs that went with them were deleted. The Archive Team's effort to preserve the site reportedly captured around 10% of the content. The domain itself was later acquired by Medal, which redirects it.
Recovering old Plays.tv clips
If you have an old Plays.tv share link or video ID, paste it into segra.tv/video/plays-<id> (or share the link directly). When the clip was crawled by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine in time, segra.tv will surface the archived video and metadata. If it wasn't archived, there is unfortunately no copy that can be recovered; that's on the original shutdown, not Segra.
Frequently asked questions
Can Segra get my Plays.tv clips back?
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Is Segra by the same team as Plays.tv?
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Why does medal.tv come up when I visit plays.tv?
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Is Segra at risk of disappearing the same way?
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Try Segra free
Open source, GPLv2, code-signed by SignPath. Records up to 4K at 144 FPS. No ads, no watermarks, no telemetry.