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i gotta ask... why so many plex over kodi users? (moist.catsweat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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ive been using kodi (xbmc was better moniker) since google killed sagetv. i recall attempting plex, but it seemed to lack some open/extensibility (its been awhile).

i have a side project i want to make as a modular plugin generating a cable layout with original air orders and networks/channels... kodi seems most optimal, but ill admit its been a long while since i looked at plex.

so why plex over kodi?

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[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

Kodi is horrible on touch devices. I also don't want to have terabytes of files on every device I want to watch something on. Sure, there are workarounds, but I could also just use Jellyfin. Yeah I don't use Plex, I use Jellyfin.

But it's really just mainly because I dislike the UX of Kodi.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

You don’t need to have local copies of all your media with kodi. A NAS works just fine.

[-] exu@feditown.com 6 points 1 year ago

Streaming a full 4k movie rip takes more bandwidth than most people would have available on the go. Plex/Jellyfin can offer transcoding on the server for such usecases.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Are you talking about on mobile? I don’t think people are hosting kodi and their content on their phones.

[-] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 year ago

Because streaming on mobile is a huge usecase for many people

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah ik, I'm still not gonna use it anymore. Jellyfin is so much better for a lot of things.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree completely. Plex and jellyfin are just much, much easier for almost everything and work better too.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't Kodi a streaming host? Why terabytes of files?

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It isn't. It's a media center originally developed for the Xbox

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I believe that Kodi, Emby, and Plex are all forks of XBMC... Not sure about Jellyfin but it wouldn't surprise me to find that it also was.

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Plex originally was a fork of XBMC for MacOSX and had the name OSXBMC, but I doubt they nowadays use a lot of code from XBMC

Kodi is the new name of XBMC

Jellyfin is a fork of Emby, but Emby isn't a fork of Kodi/XBMC. It's even written in a completely different language. People were mad that Emby went closed source, so they forked the latest open source code and called it Jellyfin.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting... I was confident that Emby was an XMBC fork but it looks like you're right.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Don't it work with real-debrid though? I'm considering getting back into streaming instead of downloading, and thought this might work on Xbox for that. Last time I used it was in like 2016 with exodus