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Is Plex better than Kodi?
Posted on 2/11/15 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 2/11/15 at 2:52 pm
I'm sorry, guys. I have no idea what I'm doing. 
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Posted on 2/11/15 at 2:54 pm to SabiDojo
2 different things. kodi is essentially an OS. plex is just an app that is supported in kodi to manage your torrents.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 2:55 pm to CAD703X
thank you. I'm trying, I promise. 
Posted on 2/11/15 at 3:26 pm to SabiDojo
dont forget to install the repositories
Posted on 2/11/15 at 3:45 pm to CAD703X
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2 different things. kodi is essentially an OS. plex is just an app that is supported in kodi to manage your torrents.
Dafuq? Plex is primarily a media server one manages with a web browser, and it has various player UIs for the PC, iPhone, Roku, etc. It can transcode as it streams to these devices.
Kodi OTOH is primarily a player, and it doesn't have the server capabilities of Plex.
Both provide automatic library organization and are comparable in that respect.
As a Kodi user on my PC, I've installed Plex for its server capabilities and play it on my iPod Touch, but its PC player component is at best redundant compared to Kodi. IIRC, it's an old fork of XBMC and hasn't kept up.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 3:54 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
wouldn't you just install the plex extension so you could run it as an app in kodi?
Posted on 2/11/15 at 4:02 pm to SabiDojo
Plex is an offshoot of XBMC that is great for local media and horrible for streaming media.
Kodi is a direct descendant of XBMC and is okay for local media and awesome for streaming.
They are too different to be considered comparable systems. I've got both and only use them for what they are good at.
Kodi is a direct descendant of XBMC and is okay for local media and awesome for streaming.
They are too different to be considered comparable systems. I've got both and only use them for what they are good at.
This post was edited on 2/11/15 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 2/11/15 at 4:04 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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IIRC, it's an old fork of XBMC and hasn't kept up.
I certainly wouldn't say they haven't kept up. They went in another direction and are really good at what they do.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 4:22 pm to CAD703X
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wouldn't you just install the plex extension so you could run it as an app in kodi?
Why would I want to run Plex as an app in Kodi? It's less direct and probably more buggy than just using Kodi, and I don't care that the two programs are maintaining parallel library databases.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 4:30 pm to junkfunky
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I certainly wouldn't say they haven't kept up. They went in another direction and are really good at what they do.
In the paragraph you snipped from. I was talking about the PC player component and said it hasn't kept up. I also noted I run the Plex server and use the app on my iPod Touch, which I wouldn't do if they weren't good for their intended purpose. As for the "other direction," the media server, I talked about that earlier and noted that Kodi doesn't do that.
As for the Plex PC player, it was probably a year I last looked at it, and I rejected the idea of abandoning XBMC for PC playback and using Plex. I didn't see any advantages, the skin I use isn't available, I couldn't directly transfer the customizations to advancedsettings.xml and keyboard.xml I've made, etc.
This post was edited on 2/11/15 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 2/11/15 at 4:46 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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I was talking about the PC player component and said it hasn't kept up.
Ok, and I disagree with that. They have essentially taken apple's approach to simplicity.
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As for the "other direction," the media server, I talked about that earlier and noted that Kodi doesn't do that.
Kodi has UPnP/DLNA capabilities.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 5:14 pm to junkfunky
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Kodi has UPnP/DLNA capabilities.
Your device has to support those features, and it will only be able to play the formats it implements itself.
Plex can be a DLNA server, too, but people mainly use a Plex player app, and the server can transcode media when necessary, e.g. when the device doesn't support the format natively, or there are bandwidth limitations. Plex can even stream over the Internet. Kodi can't do these things.
They are very different beasts as media servers. Kodi really isn't even playing the same game.
Posted on 2/11/15 at 5:40 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
I use Plex for both local media playback, but it's very buggy in Xbox One. However, in Chromecast it plays beautifully. Not as good in a ROKU stick. I adjusted my playback bandwidth to 720p at 3Mbps and it plays very well on my iPad when I'm traveling. Not as well on my Note3, but it is fun to show off my movie collection playing from my server at home when I go visit friends and acquaintances.
I also have a Plex app in my Samsung TV that is really good.
If there is a better streaming product than Plex, I'd like to experiment with it.
I also have a Plex app in my Samsung TV that is really good.
If there is a better streaming product than Plex, I'd like to experiment with it.
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