Plex is starting to monetize their platform while XBMC has more of a hacker/enthusiast vibe. There are two main heavyweights in the media server space. Plex is a whole ecosystem that is extremely polished, easy to setup and available on every device you'd ever want. More recently, I've tried using a Raspberry Pi as an ersatz media player along with AirPlay to throw videos from my iPhone/iPad up on the big screen.įast forward to 2013 and I've found Plex. I talk about how I streamed things in 2008 in this " Geek Developer Cribs" video. I've long had shares like \\server\movies and \\server\photos for accessing family files from laptops around the house, as well as streaming home videos to the Xbox or PS3 via DLNA. When you have a headless server in your home, you're always looking for ways to utilize it. When you're running the Emby app, you can browse to Plugins in the left-hand panel to search the catalog.I've blogged about my Synology 1511+ NAS before and how I have added a few things to it like CrashPlan Cloud Backup and even discussed it on my podcast. Many members of the Emby open-source community have developed plugins for the app. Even though Plex recently launched Plex Labs, the size of the third-party developer communities in Kodi and Emby is vast in comparison. It also lends itself to creating a community.
For example, because anyone can inspect open-source code, you can be confident there are no nasty security issues or privacy nightmares looming. Open-source software has a number of advantages over closed-source. For reference, Kodi is open source, but Plex is not. Open SourceĪs mentioned earlier, Emby is open source. And even if you get Kodi operating as a server, the integration is not as smooth. It is possible to set Kodi up as a server, but it's a much more technical process and not suitable for beginners. This implementation is identical to Plex but very different to Kodi. All you need to access your content is a username and password.
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