• donkeystomple@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    How does Kodi compare to Plex? Are there any features it has similar or different?

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      7 months ago

      Kodi doesn’t have a server feature like plex does where you can serve media to other devices. A more direct alternative would be jellyfin, which even works well with kodi as the media player.

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          It’s a media center, you can play your local files or you can use add-ons like the official jellyfin addon and connect to any jellyfin server.

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              7 months ago

              It sure did, its over 20 years old now.

              I guess it has inspired much of its competition, some of which with have added broader scope (like media servers) as one of their distinguishing features.

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          Kodi, especially with librelec on rpi can be used as a replacement for appletv or firestick. But atm its rough for me, ngl.

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          7 months ago

          It basically does the same thing that VLC does, but with a controller optimized interface.

          Media can be loaded from a ton of places. Samba share, dvb card, streaming services, …

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            Controller optimized, and yet they still can’t make the d-pad send the correct number of button presses. There is like a 1 in 20 chance it receives 2 presses instead of one.