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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it’s just a streaming host. Even as xbmc you could mount a network share library, you didn’t need it all stored on-device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By default it isn't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? You can connect it to network shares “by default”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess it does. There probably is a plug in for kodi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did some research, seems like Umbrella and Fen work on xbox. Seren does not work (on series X at least)

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