Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s Kody? I’ve been thinking of getting a pc and setting up jellyfin on it and connect that to my tv, but I’ve never heard of Kody before

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  • N0ll@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s called Kodi. It’s a media centre that organizes and displays a library of your own, locally stored (on a NAS or external hard drive) video files.

    It can be extended with add-ons for example for watching YouTube, but of course there are also some piracy add-ons, which Kodi itself doesn’t condone, but can’t do anything against

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jellyfin is exactly that, and open source, so you know you won’t get stabbed in the back like with Roku. Out of curiosity, is Kodi also open source?

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a Linux? Based system that looks like a PS5 interface. You can get all sorts of things on it like a video library, automatic episode downloads, illegal downloads, porn, etc, Netflix.

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    • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kodi is cross-platform, so it doesn’t have to run on Linux.

      looks like a PS5 interface

      I’ve never actually seen the PS5 interface, but this part of the comment is particularly amusing since Kodi started off as XBMC (XBox Media Center).

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      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have no idea but I think you’re right… Xbox Interface.

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