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I have an Odroid C4 with Jellyfin, but some content just won't play. Does Kodi work better?
On any other hardware platform I'd tell you that Jellyfin is the best of the best. With that board, it might be worth trying Kodi.
I dunno, I've always found Kodi pretty janky but it seems pretty good at playing back content on lower spec hardware.
There were definitely a few versions of releases 19.x that had buffering issues with larger 4K videos where it would just stop playback, but the latest ones for versions 20.x seem stable for me. Only issue I can think of is sometimes the touch interface on a tablet gets confused and won’t let me scroll up or down, but restarting the app clears it. No issues for me with the pc app interface using mouse pointer and scrollwheel, or the remote controlled interface on a FireTV.
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There were definitely a few versions of releases 19.x that had buffering issues with larger 4K videos where it would just stop playback, but the latest ones for versions 20.x seem stable for me. Only issue I can think of is sometimes the touch interface on a tablet gets confused and won’t let me scroll up or down, but restarting the app clears it. No issues for me with the pc app interface using mouse pointer and scrollwheel, or the remote controlled interface on a FireTV.
edit: after reading about jellyfin, the main drawback I can see to using that is you have to install specific server-side software for it (unless I misunderstood) while Kodi is self-contained on the client side and just reads any accessible folder locally or on the network. (Not bashing jellyfin as I’ve never installed or used it, just noting that difference.)
I haven’t had anything that kodi wouldn’t play, but I also don’t have a ton of different file types. For music and movies it hasn’t failed me yet. You just need to be able to give it a network address to the content folder on a NAS or pi, and it usually scans everything for me. Kodi connects to it from a Fire Tablet, FireTV Stick and the pc app.