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Kodi is for power users, Plex is for anyone who just wants a place to host their media collection.
You can mix-and-match too! Plex puts out an official Kodi plugin: https://github.com/plexinc/plex-for-kodi .
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I really wanted to move to Kodi to be able to run everything locally (Plex requires a login etc) but it was way too much friction for my use case (and I don't think it is such a unique use case). I keep my media in separate folders for each genre and wanted to do a one-to-one mapping of folder to "library" so that I can just click on, say, "sci-fi" and see all the movies for that in a grid and so on. Plex makes this…
Your experience echoes mine to a certain extent. When searching for a media platform, I tried various ones including Kodi (and the various forks/environments like LibreElec et. al), Plex and others. I also have a folder hierarchy which Kodi doesn't respect (very annoying) and played around with Plex as well. However, I am unwilling to log in and share telemetry about my own personal library with Plex. As such, I went…
I've got about 200 DVD's but each time I look at Kodi (or others) it basically means : rip the DVD first... Which is the last thing I want to do when I want to actually look at the DVD. Is there a solution to RIP the DVD (I'm OK with it's just an ISO copy) while playing it ? So that I don't have to think about it first ?
That is a really cool idea! It doesn't sound like it is a major factor in your use case, but Kodi is one of the few players that not only can play directly from ISOs either compressed or uncompressed.
I love Kodi, it runs my house for watching movies, listening to my mp3 collection or internet radios, and does it great. However what I'm really missing is a way to stream everything in and out: - allow streaming audio to other computers for multi-room audio - allow streaming audio from phones or computers when I throw a party at home and people want to play DJ - allow streaming audio+video from a computer to use my…
For network video or audio streaming, I use NDI. When I found it, it was quite a pleasant surprise.
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>> Only thing I don't like about it is that Netflix isn't on it.. but that's hardly Kodi's fault. My main use case for it actually was wanting to watch netflix, youtube and prime on my desktop monitor from my office couch. The two main issues were lack of a remote and the lack of native support in kodi for any of those streaming platforms. The first issue was solved with this nifty little unit: https://www.amazon.com…
coughs https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/ https://github.com/Sandmann79/xbmc https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.tubed These might work better than using web launcher.
I love Kodi, it runs my house for watching movies, listening to my mp3 collection or internet radios, and does it great. However what I'm really missing is a way to stream everything in and out: - allow streaming audio to other computers for multi-room audio - allow streaming audio from phones or computers when I throw a party at home and people want to play DJ - allow streaming audio+video from a computer to use my…
If you enable "AirPlay" on Kodi it just works with Apple devices, in my experience. I'm not sure why there isn't something that easy for Android, but I suspect it's Google being evil and wanting you to buy one of their devices. Conceptually it's trivial with Pulseaudio to stream over the network. I ended up getting a bluetooth receiver for mine which allowed me to play from any phone (you do need to do a little bit o…
For browsing, previewing, searching, and organizing videos I created Video Hub App . The primary feature is scrub / preview thumbnails from inside the video as you hover with your mouse and an infinite scroll of all your videos. It also has a "filmstrip" view to see all screenshots at once. I hope it is useful to some of you here. https://videohubapp.com/en/ Open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Thank you for creating this! It's perfect for my current needs :) Do you use sqlite under the hood? Also, what's the largest collection / folder size that you know videohub can handle? Also, I just bought it anyway -- I am impressed at how you donate a generous portion of every sale to charity!
I've had no problems with 20,000 videos in a "hub" and I've heard people pushing past 100k. JavaScript has no problem applying .filter() across this many objects quickly.
Each search is its own .filter method (inside an Angular pipe) so every search should be virtually instant. And since the screenshots are pre-extracted (the most time-consuming part of using the app), you should be able to infinite-scroll with no delays in loading previews.
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Why don't you? It has an edit button in the UI for entering in the metadata to its database manually. It has the option to prefer metadata already stored locally inside the container when populating its database. It has the "match" button for interactively discovering and retrieving the metadata from an agent like IMDb or tvdb regardless of filename. By default it tries to spare you having to do any of these things,…
In my own use case, I rip blurays, and these don't have the metadata populated. Files won't even appear in the UI if the filename isn't right, or it guesses completely wrongly based on just the filename. There is tucked away, really deep, some options for "unmatched" files. I had moved on to using filebot before trying that.
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this! if you want your media to be playable basically everywhere, use h264/AVC. sure a hvec-file would be about half the size but who cares?
Even HEVC works depending on the client support; for example, I stream h.265/HEVC to my 4K TV and it decodes it just fine. (Which makes me wonder what formats the OP has things stored in that plex has to transcode, or what client device they're using)