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?
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.
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.
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
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.
You don’t need to have local copies of all your media with kodi. A NAS works just fine.
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.
Are you talking about on mobile? I don’t think people are hosting kodi and their content on their phones.
Yeah ik, I’m still not gonna use it anymore. Jellyfin is so much better for a lot of things.
