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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 4 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AdamJacobMuller ◴[13 Nov 22 03:21 UTC] No.33579654[source]▶
Plex seems to regularly add new features which I really have no use for but makes it relatively easy to turn them off if you want.

Every month or three when I login to the web interface there's Some New Thing which I need to disable.

Recently I needed a 100% offline-capable media player (and while Plex would probably work, it's not 100% reliable) and tried with Kodi.

It's a very unfluid experience, requiring multiple plugins and a setup process which was complicated even for me. It wasn't terrible, and it did work and I'm glad it exists but it's not something I would ever use on a daily basis, Plex just works better.

I'll admit I haven't tried Emby or Jellyfin (yet), and, I'm sure I will some day. Plex will probably add something which is truly objectionable or otherwise not disableable and I'll be compelled to switch but for now I'll stick with the fluid experience, even if it requires me to occasionally disable their new "features".

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1. colechristensen ◴[13 Nov 22 03:44 UTC] No.33579793[source]▶
I really liked the original homebrew xbmc on a modded original xbox (both plex and kodi are forks)

I would appreciate a simpler batteries included media center software in that theme.

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2. gh02t ◴[13 Nov 22 03:53 UTC] No.33579843[source]▶
Kodi isn't a fork of the old school XBMC on Xbox, it's the direct continuation of the project. After they migrated their focus onto PC and other platforms the Xbox version was actually forked off into a separate codebase and dropped from the main project, but Kodi is the direct descendent/inheritor of the original XBMC.

I've been using it since it was still called XBMP, it really hasn't changed that much UI wise.

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3. xen2xen1 ◴[13 Nov 22 04:21 UTC] No.33580011[source]▶
I tried Kodi for the PC. I turned on UPNP broadcast. It locked up. I had to kill it with task manager. I turned UPNP on on the Xbox XBMC a few weeks later. I had to reboot the OG Xbox. Both of these were about three months ago, they still have the same bugs.
4. jrnichols ◴[13 Nov 22 05:52 UTC] No.33580461[source]▶
I remember the Boxee Box and loved mine.. while it lasted. The interface was slick, simple, and had the basics that I needed at the time.