The rpi4 is working like shit for me atm. Same for you? I used nightly and still twitch and youtube are not working. I even took half an hour to make an api access for youtube to no avail so far. Peertube isnt being updated afaik and I‘m pretty much devastated atm. Twitch freezes the whole system on midroll ads.
It works well enough with the rasbian OS derived from Debian. However pure Debian currently doesn’t have all the user space components to take advantage of the video decoder needed to play things smoothly. Currently I have Bookworm installed on the system but I run Kodi out of a docker image: github.com/stsquad/dockerfiles/blob/…/Dockerfile
Oh… i should clarify that I‘m using libreelec since the pi is on my tv. I can use it with my ir remote which is nice or with the phone app but twitch freezes the whole system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, & Stremio
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!
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.