How does this compare to Plex?
Jellyfin is more like Plex. Kodi is more like Roku.
Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
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Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
#22For your consideration, Jellyfin. [0] [0] https://jellyfin.org/
Interesting - I bought Emby this year for serving local media - my one gripe is no thumbnails/preview when you scrub over the timeline - this one has it. Will give it a spin.
Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby, created after Emby went closed source.
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#23I run LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi, which is a just-enough-OS for Kodi. It works great, and is even a good choice for playing music over HDMI, because unlike some other music-playing distributions, it doesn't use ALSA, and simply bit-bangs the decoded audio out of the HDMI port. Works very well.
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#24I used Kodi in its very early days as Xbox Media Center. XBMC turned the original-generation Xbox into a cheap and very functional media center PC - I actually didn't stop using mine until I upgraded to HD in the early 2010s. More recently, I've been running it on a Raspberry Pi 3A in my kitchen. It interacts with my DVR upstairs, so that I can pause TV there and pick it up downstairs. I credit the fact that it was o…
I got an XBOX because my late father was a .NET developer and very much into Microsoft technologies so he thought the XBOX was a nifty device. The software on that device was just so lousy. I was into Squaresoft type RPGs/Nintendo 64 era Rare games and the XBOX did not deliver. Only games I ever bought for that console were Shenmue 2 and Blinx the Time sweeper. However that simple 20$ LPC mod chip opened up a world of amazing little games/emulators and tons of entertainment that made the XBOX totally memorable even 20+ years later. The device got hundreds of hours of usage that it would not have otherwise and cemented in my mind the amazing magic of homebrew software. Man I miss those years so much.
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#25Been using Kodi (XBMC) for nearly 20 years. The piracy FUD surrounding XBMC a few years ago really disappointed me. We use Kodi for streaming tv (Australia) and internet radio and it is perfect for this. That's all I wanted to say really. The piracy FUD has been disappointing.
Can you elaborate? Are you saying there is FUD against Kodi or XBMC or BY them?
4-5 (ish?) Years ago there was a lot of media coverage about how kodi was a "piracy app" because some cheap set tops were shipping it with bundled torrent (etc) plugins. There were various legal threats against the project itself. Worth searching for in hn archives, lots of good discussion about it and how much of a coordinated smear campaign it was/n't.
Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
#26I run LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi, which is a just-enough-OS for Kodi. It works great, and is even a good choice for playing music over HDMI, because unlike some other music-playing distributions, it doesn't use ALSA, and simply bit-bangs the decoded audio out of the HDMI port. Works very well.
Ditto. Has ALL the codecs. Listening to music on it right now (Stars of the Lid).
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#27Been using Kodi (XBMC) for nearly 20 years. The piracy FUD surrounding XBMC a few years ago really disappointed me. We use Kodi for streaming tv (Australia) and internet radio and it is perfect for this. That's all I wanted to say really. The piracy FUD has been disappointing.
Piracy is a moral obligation.
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#28Longtime Kodi user here. Bought an M1 MacBook Air in the spring and Kodi barely works. Video won't display even though the sound works fine, and instead the mouse will multiply thousands of time. You can move the mouse around and just leave trails of mouse cursors everywhere. It's like one out of every four times it will work as expected, but requires quitting and re-opening it over and over.
You can configure Kodi to use other video players to actually play. Probably worth doing. I do it myself because for whatever reason Kodi's player crashes like crazy on my Windows htpc.
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#29First rule of fight club...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kodi targets low cost ARM SBCs as a first class citizen. ARM is (a family) of instruction sets - for something like a media player it is down near the least important aspect of providing support. Kodi targets a boat load of low cost embedded SoC ARM devices but these bear little resemblance to an M1 based MacBook except for the instruction set. Kodi will run fine on typical x86 PC setups because this hardware is comm…
I'm aware of the difference, I just haven't quite seen the effects of ARM ISA variations in action quite yet. I was kinda under the impression that v8 would be back-compatible with v6 and v7 ARM.
Yeah and what I’m saying is that any ARM ISA variations have little to do with anything. Kodi is a C++ application primarily and uses off the shelf compilers. The support issues have more to do with hardware and OS compatibility.