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submitted 7 months ago by American_Jesus@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

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

[-] theredhood@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

What does Kodi do, then, if you can't host your media on it?

[-] theredhood@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] otterpop@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

IIRC didn't it start out as XBMC, a media center you put onto the original Xbox?

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 1 points 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, ...

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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.