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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.
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.
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.
How does Kodi compare to Plex? Are there any features it has similar or different?
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.
What does Kodi do, then, if you can’t host your media on it?
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, …
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.
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.
IIRC didn’t it start out as XBMC, a media center you put onto the original Xbox?
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.