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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to like Kodi, but Jellyfin just has a less obtrusive interface

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't tried Jellyfin but people's talk of it doing transcoding (which Kodi doesn't need to do as it simply decodes the video stream and shows it on the video output) leaves me with the idea that it's not quite the same and does things I don't really need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I liked the interface of Jellyfin as a more family friendly media browsing UI but I hate the wasted CPU cycles of transcoding unnecessarily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Family friendly UI" is "ultra-advanced" stuff for me: remember, before Kodi on a Mini-PC in my living room (and, by the way, I got a remote control for it too) I had been using first generation Media Players with file-browser interfaces to chose files from remote shares on a NAS, so merelly having something with the concept of a media library, tracking of watched status and pretty pictures automatically fetched from the Internet is a giant leap forward ;)

There are downsides to being an old Techie using all sorts of non-mainstream tech since back in the 90s. I'm just happy Kodi solved my problem of having an old Media Player hanging together with duct-tape, spit and prayers.

That said I can see how Kodi having all status (such as watched/not-watched tracking) be per-media rather than per (user + media) isn't really good for families. More broadly the thing doesn't even seem to have the concept of a user.