What does Kodi do, then, if you can't host your media on it?
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.
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.
Kodi, especially with librelec on rpi can be used as a replacement for appletv or firestick. But atm its rough for me, ngl.
What does Kodi do, then, if you can't host your media on it?
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.
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.
Kodi, especially with librelec on rpi can be used as a replacement for appletv or firestick. But atm its rough for me, ngl.