Anti-cheat “compatibility” means allowing software kernel level access and after Crowd strike I think that tide will be turning even on Windows.

Anti-cheat will change. Not Linux IMHO.

That sounds like policy written by somebody who has no idea what the reality of software development is.

1 year to rewrite critical software in a new language?

It’s space cuties! Arrrggghhh!

Omg. It’s the Beavles!

Kodi isn’t commercialised. I’m not sure what you’re referring to. It’s open source and always has been.

I also have the *arrs running on that same box so new episodes appear automatically. They require a browser or other client, so I didn’t include it in my list. They just run in the background.

It always got me that the maths I was doing in electrical engineering outclassed what my friend was doing for his astrophysics degree. He was probably at the better university too (Debatable for the subjects in question, but both really good).

Did I need that level of maths? No, but it was compulsory for the first 3 years so not much option.

Well you need a good handle on probability to understand transistors these days at least.

Depends if you’re his assistant or not.

So that one doesn’t talk to the Jellyfin process. It just understands the way Jellyfin organises things on disk. Right?

You then access the files via NFS, SMB or WebDav (the horror!)

Just checking I understand.

A few things for me:

• I had most of the parts to build a low power machine that’s passively cooled. No noise whilst watching video.
• I can have a locally stored library so don’t need a NAS running 24/7 elsewhere in the house supping power.
• I can have multiple things running on it like games as well as media giving me a PC gaming console (fans come on at that point).
• Never have to drive it through my phone or a tablet. It’s just on the TV remote. Ease of use is great.
• No money to Amazon, Google or similar companies that just want to data farm me.

Kodi works very well for me with a local library. Serving it from Jellyfin was a mess (Jellycon). I think primarily this is a Kodi problem as really it should support DLNA servers much much better, and then a add-on wouldn’t be needed.

I was asking the op what desktop environment they’re running, in response to their question

…and I was informing you that, given they are looking for an alternative to Kodi, they may not be running a DE.

There are differences in pronunciation, at least for my southern British dialect. “Your” is said “yorr”. “You’re” is said “yeur” and is far closer to the “you are” it comes from. It’s just said at speed blending the words.

None.

If somebody is using Kodi they’re probably running in a kiosk style. On my install I don’t even have XOrg or Wetland installed. Kodi is just running on kernel level graphics buffers (GBM).

Yes jellyfin is a server, and the question asked was what to replace Kodi with. Kodi is a frontend. Jellyfin doesn’t solve the problem.

Kodi is a frontend.

Jellyfin is a server.

Jellyfin is not a replacement for Kodi. Jellyfin would replace OPs WebDAV server, but that’s not the question being asked.

To be fair I didn’t know that existed because I don’t use windows. I would expect it would be fine if I did. However, I use Linux.

Fire stick is not a HTPC

…and it’s unusably buggy in my experience.

So recommend a client suitable for a dedicated HTPC? I’ve yet to find one, as the Kodi add-on for jellyfin is buggy in my experience.

So how do you interact with the jellyfin server from your HTPC?