The jellyfin apps have a way better UX than Kodi. Jellyfin gives you only what you need in a clean, familiar design that feels like a real streaming service. Kodi is massively overbloated garbage with a confusing and extremely cluttered UI. Typical programmer-designed interface.

I hate Kodi and avoid it always, which thankfully is very easy thanks to jellyfin

[–] damo_omad@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Just need to use a nice skin like Arctic Horizon

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm running it on a Linux laptop, so I don't see any reason why I couldn't have both. I'll check it out.

I have Kodi connected to broadcast TV streams and Disney+, can I do this with Jellyfin?

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could have both, I just found Kodi to be a pain to use and set up. But one advantage of Kodi is that I believe it already supports streams like that. With Jellyfin you might have to do some magic. Kodi is more feature rich than jellyfin in general so if you can get it to work well, you could just have Kodi instead of both.

But I'm not sure on this topic. It's probably best to consult the docs for both.

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago

I have Kodi set up, and it seems to work well. There are different ways to do it, I did the database merge option which prevents you having non-jellyfin files in your library but it works nicely.

I also have broadcast TV streams and Disney+ through there too, which gives it a smart-TV feeling which is nice for others using it.

[–] retfma@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

No, the jellyfin app is mainly for using a jellyfin server. And for that purpose, it's really good I think. It's not like an all purpose media player with tons of add-ons and highly customizable like Kodi is.