Kodi 21.0 "Omega"
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Kodi 21.0 "Omega"
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#2What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
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#4What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
Kodi is still an excellent option if you have it directly serve media from connected storage or a NFS/SMB share. Some people just don’t have the need to “share” their collection, which makes running a media server unnecessary.
I believe some use Kodi as a direct play frontend for a media server. But the native apps are pretty good these days and can direct play ~everything.
The other strong point is the plugin ecosystem. In particular, the Debrid plugin which allows you to consume content without needing to invest in storage. Stremio is an alternative to Kodi in this area afaik. Various IPTV streaming plugins also exist.
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#5What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
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#6What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
Kodi is still in use here. Over-the-air pvr / iptv / my media / music / video/music streaming all outlets.... coming all together on my tv.
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#7What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
A lot of people love Jellyfin, and it’s very clean and works well, but I find that a lot of media types don’t work. I never have any problems with kodi and all sorts of video media, but it’s definitely more bloated than jellyfin. Kodi just works but Jellyfin seems cleaner with the occasional format issue.
Family used plex cause that’s the easiest, but lots of concerns about the way the company is going and privacy. It doesn’t bother me but you should read about it.
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#8What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
I've tried plex but had issues to set it how I want. I have one kodi to share everything, it's my main pc in home and we watch tv (dvb-t2 streamed with nextpvr), online streams, yt, etc. MCE remote to navigate. play emus or PC games with a click. Yatse to stream over mobile. Plex can't do all that. Plex is neat but still not the way I like it. Kodi is a bit messy to setup but once you handle it, it does the job.
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#9Former Plex user and current Jellyfin user. Never tried Kodi however happy to see more options in this space.
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#10What's the home media server landscape look like these days? I used Kodi about 10 years ago I think, but I hardly ever hear about it on HN, just Plex and I think Jellyfin? Why would someone choose one over the others?
Kodi is still an excellent option if you have it directly serve media from connected storage or a NFS/SMB share. Some people just don’t have the need to “share” their collection, which makes running a media server unnecessary. I believe some use Kodi as a direct play frontend for a media server. But the native apps are pretty good these days and can direct play ~everything. The other strong point is the plugin ecosys…
I use Kodi on a Shield to play any local files I want to watch, which reside on a USB-attached SSD.
Results have been pretty good, although it suffers from some non-intuitive UI design... the sort of which also plagues other media applications I've tried.
Let me try it on my computer... OK, specifically, Kodi says, "your library is currently empty. To populate it... enter "Files" section, add a media source, and configure it."
So I did that, and navigated to a directory that contains some video files. There's no way to "add" it. Clicking on it opens it. And so on for contents. If you click on a video file, it just plays it.
Then there's no control for going back to the home screen. You can go up to a parent directory, but once at the top you're stuck there. On an Android TV you have a Back button on your remote, but there's no control for it on the computer UI.
This is disappointing.