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2016-10-16, 20:16
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-16, 20:17 by Sevenn.)
Hi,
I am new to Kodi
At the moment i have a machine running plex server with plex player on my TV, i would like to use kodi but i need some help.
I was looking on the kodi webpage and i don't see any server. how do i install kodi server?
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There is no kodi server. Kodi is a client to play and organize different kind of media. You can download kodi for different platforms like windows,android,linux.
Kodi offers a UPNP solution to share your media to other clients.
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Kodi is like a combination of your Plex server software (currently on your PC?) and your Plex player (on your TV).
It catalogs and scrapes your local media AND plays it. It needs to be installed on a device (PC/Mac/Android, etc) that is either connected to your TV via HDMI or streams to it over ethernet/wifi via uPNP.
Your local files can either be on the Kodi device or a NAS or on shared folders on another device.
Unlike Plex server, Kodi will not transcode files on-the-fly.
I probably have a few details wrong, or left something out, but this is my understanding of basic Kodi use.
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Kodi does not transcode.
Don't know how or if Kodi does content sharing outside your network. Plex seems to do that well.
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Kodi doesn't need to transcode. It is a player.
For a server all you need is something that serves files via smb or NFS. So a PC running Windows (if you are masochistic enough to use Windows as a server) or Linux, a nas, a raspberry pi with disks attached, etc etc
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