Is Kodi worth giving a shot again, my last use being around 2016?
Whenever I tried it out, I found it laggy and buggy. Has it improved?
Immensely. Its extremely versatile and robust at this point.
If youre just using it as a media center computer go with libreelec, which is an OS that boots directly into kodi. The intergration is deep and excellent.
It’s really fantastic on SHIELD pro for playing stuff from a NAS. This newest release finally has full Dolby vision support.
What source are you using when playing Dolby Vision, does it work with Jellyfin/Jellycon?
Just playing files via NFS storage. I haven’t ever tried Jellyfin so I’m not sure.
Ahh…i almost forgot that Kodi still exist, i remembered using Kodi when it still XBMC and ohh man that was absolutely great
Nowadays there’s too many multimedia apps, even i still confused what the difference between Jellyfin, Kodi, Plex, & StremioKodi: A standalone multimedia player, it plays contents stored locally or on the network (SMB, NFS)
Plex/Jellyfin: Multimedia server, it shares local content over network/internet to multiple users.
Stremio: Plays content from online sources (torrent, HTTP)
For good measure, let’s also mention Kodi’s support for 3rd-party add-ons, such as various legitimate (e.g. national broadcasters) VoD services, pirate streams scrapers, live TV (e.g. IPTV or TVHeadend), as well as e.g. Jellyfin/Jellycon. And that’s not even all!
I tried to keep things simple, however I use Kodi mainly with PlexMod addon.
Plex official apps have many issues with audio and subtitles, Kodi plays (almost) everything and better options for audio/subtitles
Plex and jellyfin can host your files on your network.
Plex and kodi can play the media on your devices.
Is the hardware support for Raspberry Pi still out of tree or can I use an upstream build now on my Pi 4?
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.
How does Kodi compare to Jellyfin?
I use Android TV and Chrome on macOS as my primary clients, and Arch on my server with an Nvidia 1080Ti for transcoding.
If you’re comparing the official jellyfin client apps to kodi, then kodi looks much nicer with more features but requires better hardware. It should work on on your Mac fine but depending on what android tv specs you have it may be a bit slower than the jellyfin client.
