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How does Kodi compare to Plex? Are there any features it has similar or different?

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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.

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What does Kodi do, then, if you can’t host your media on it?

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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.

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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, …

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Kodi, especially with librelec on rpi can be used as a replacement for appletv or firestick. But atm its rough for me, ngl.

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