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Boyzie
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Many thanks for the links.
Yes, it sounds good, indeed. I have only a single place where I watch movies, series, so actually I do not need apps (for streaming and such) to watch them from another place. Kodi - like it is at the moment - actually would be enough, So I am wondering, what could Emby do so much better.
It appears there are very many ways to build up a home theatre. A biased opinion about home theatre software? To what extent?
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I tired Emby, and found that it doesn't work well. There were actually slow downs when scrolling down Movie titles, which compared to stock Kodi I had none of these issues. This on a Wired network, coming form a High End NAS no less.
Also, Emby's scraping leaves much to be desired (as it doesn't work all that well). Yet the Default Kodi didn't have any issues. I had repeatedly asking the Emby forum for help, but I would get a response every couple of days, and it was generally people who weren't helpful at all.
Hence, all my Boxes are Pure Kodi 17.3 (with my Favorite Skin Aeon MQ7).
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2017-06-26, 01:05
(This post was last modified: 2017-06-26, 01:09 by enterprised.)
I use Emby for Kodi with Emby as my central media database. I use this with with 2 windows based Kodi PC's, 2 Android TV boxes running Kodi (legal version, no illegal or pirated stuff on my machines) and use Emby to stream to some phones over the internet.
Emby works very well for a multi user/multi device environment or if you want to use Kodi or your media over the internet. If you just use a single machine running Kodi, than Emby is overkill.
I slowly converted to Kodi this year. I'm a 10 year long MediaPortal Pro, but unfortunately MediaPortal does not run on Android TV boxes. I still run MediaPortal on my main HTPC.
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bry
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I use it as my backend. No issues
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I have been using emby as my backend for a year now and it works great. It the main reason I use it is to be able to access my library outside my LAN as I only have a single local Kodi machine, but I like being able to access my whole library where ever I go.
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I tried Emby (together with Kodi) for a short while, but in the end I went back to Kodi icw myqsl database. I have multiple clients around the house and the main advance of Emby was that I didn't have to have the same version of Kodi on every client to be able to use a share database. It saved me a lot of upgrading pain (I have windows, Mac and a Raspberry running). However, I found emby working a bit slower than Kodi does when scrolling through movies of tvshows. Also the updating of the library took a bit more time. After a week or 2 I decided I prefer Kodi for now