I want to stream mkv files to Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. Transcoding isn’t that important. Just want something convenient.

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you’re only interested in locally streaming you really can’t go wrong with Kodi and samba shares. It’s tried and tested and has a way longer lineage than jellyfin. I’m a big fan of jellyfin and have it set up; but if I’m on my network I’m more likely to break out Kodi and stream on smb, or even just use VLC. Fewer issues generally.

    • Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I will try kodi. Did use it a lot time ago until I moved to just playing videos manually with mpc due to hdr support with madvr.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I remember Kodi from the XBMC days, how much has it changed in recent years? I remember when people started selling “Kodi sticks” way back when that were USB sticks preloaded with openelec and had a bunch of pirate streams preinstalled that were pretty much garbage, and it severely tarnished the Kodi/XBMC name.