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?

  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    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.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        0·
        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.zoneEnglish
          11·
          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.comEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Because streaming on mobile is a huge usecase for many people

        • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          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.worksEnglish
            2·
            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.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

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

        • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          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.