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Question: Why isn‘t the Kodi Player used in Apps?


K1ng_Lear

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K1ng_Lear

Hi,

 

I‘ve one point which I really don’t understand. Why is neither EMBY nor Plex using the most advanced Player out there, I mean Kodi, in their Apps? I think Kodi is open source, so the player itself isn’t closed while it‘s really the most advanced Player out there. If it would be used in the apps a lot of transcode could be avoided and it would be very easy to enjoy the media. So, why is this so? Are there regulatory restrictions or any other technical issues? I just want to know.

 

P.S. I am aware that EMBY has a good implementation in Kodi but I like some other features of the app. So I‘m switching between Kodi and the nativ android app on my shield depending ont the thing I want to see.

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BillOatman

Kodi I believe is written in mostly C++ and I doubt it is .net core compatible.

That might have something to do with it.

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There is no "Kodi player" per se.

 

What you are asking is kind of like asking why isn't my car using that other car's engine.  Well, first you'd have to figure out how to extract that other car's engine and then you'd need to figure out how to fit it into your car and interface it properly with all of the controls and drive train.   Then do that in your whole fleet of different sized and shaped cars :).

 

Then, beyond the technical aspects, you'd have to figure out if that other person really will let you use his engine in your car that you race professionally.

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Why is neither EMBY nor Plex using the most advanced Player out there, I mean Kodi, in their Apps?

 

Well that's completely untrue! I actually think Kodi is very basic. I think you maybe confusing stability with capability. This is also the common misunderstanding with apple junk. They just make their stuff so introverted that you have to use it the way they want you to use it. So for people like myself, it makes them next to useless. They basically make it simple enough for an uneducated child to use.

 

If you want advanced, take a look at mpv's manual

 

https://mpv.io/manual/master/

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BillOatman

There is no "Kodi player" per se.

 

What you are asking is kind of like asking why isn't my car using that other car's engine.  Well, first you'd have to figure out how to extract that other car's engine and then you'd need to figure out how to fit it into your car and interface it properly with all of the controls and drive train.   Then do that in your whole fleet of different sized and shaped cars :).

 

Then, beyond the technical aspects, you'd have to figure out if that other person really will let you use his engine in your car that you race professionally.

Yeah that's a much overlooked point as well.

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K1ng_Lear

There is no "Kodi player" per se.

 

What you are asking is kind of like asking why isn't my car using that other car's engine.  Well, first you'd have to figure out how to extract that other car's engine and then you'd need to figure out how to fit it into your car and interface it properly with all of the controls and drive train.   Then do that in your whole fleet of different sized and shaped cars :).

 

Then, beyond the technical aspects, you'd have to figure out if that other person really will let you use his engine in your car that you race professionally.

Thx for the answer. Very well explained and I like your metapher, too. :-)

 

Well that's completely untrue! I actually think Kodi is very basic. I think you maybe confusing stability with capability. This is also the common misunderstanding with apple junk. They just make their stuff so introverted that you have to use it the way they want you to use it. So for people like myself, it makes them next to useless. They basically make it simple enough for an uneducated child to use.

 

If you want advanced, take a look at mpv's manual

 

https://mpv.io/manual/master/

Sorry, but your argument isn’t a point.

 

1. I can throw almost everything to my Kodi on Shield and it plays flawless without a transcode on the sever. So, yes Kodis playing engine is more sophisticated.

2. Your argument with apple is exactly why I think apple is well developed. It may not hit requirements but it does it for a lot of people. If you‘ve special or professional requirement some stuff for the consumer isn’t really useful to you. E.g. I work as engineer in a chemical plant and my build in sensors there give ma more opportunities then the sensors in my heating system at home do. So, is my heating system at home scrap? No, of course not, It‘s developed for this and my wife can handle it, too.

 

The point is, you can have something very capable but if 95% of your customer can’t use it without to be a specialist your system isn’t advanced it’s simply miserably engineered.

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Sorry, but your argument isn’t a point.

 

1. I can throw almost everything to my Kodi on Shield and it plays flawless without a transcode on the sever. So, yes Kodis playing engine is more sophisticated.

2. Your argument with apple is exactly why I think apple is well developed. It may not hit requirements but it does it for a lot of people. If you‘ve special or professional requirement some stuff for the consumer isn’t really useful to you. E.g. I work as engineer in a chemical plant and my build in sensors there give ma more opportunities then the sensors in my heating system at home do. So, is my heating system at home scrap? No, of course not, It‘s developed for this and my wife can handle it, too.

 

The point is, you can have something very capable but if 95% of your customer can’t use it without to be a specialist your system isn’t advanced it’s simply miserably engineered.

 

 

lol, well I'm not going to waste time explaining all the ways that Crapple is junk, or how limited kodi is. If you're happy with it, groovy. They are incapable of doing a lot of what I require, so I can't use them.

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Both Kodi and mvp use ffmpeg so at their heart they have the same level of advancement.

MVP is more configuration and you can control how it processes video and audio so MVP is more advanced in this area.

However they both should support the same media.

 

As I said above Kodi is more a media platform with a library manager and other features that allow you to do end to end media playback.

I agree from a player point of view it has less control over how it handles playback internally and for some users that is not acceptable.

Several players use ffmpeg, but they tie it down by limiting configurability. Not only that, but mpv has a bunch of stuff on top of ffmpeg. So you have the ability to use all of ffmpeg's options AND use the many options that mpv has developed. Being able to decode your media is a very basic function, and yet many players still have limited support. This is the case with all crapple products. Kodi is better than crapple, but horribly limits what you can do with it. mpv on Windows is vast.

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Deathsquirrel

Google media servers and media collection playback, whatever terms you like.  You'll find Kodi at the top of the list.  Then you'll find Plex.  Then, if you're lucky, Emby.

 

People using Emby have tried those tools and generally rejected them.  The Kodi user experience was so well-received in this house that my wife told me to uninstall 'that shitty program and bring the DVDs back out' so she could watch movies again.

 

For those that like Kodi, it's an option as a client.  Making it the default client wouldn't make any damn sense.

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Google media servers and media collection playback, whatever terms you like.  You'll find Kodi at the top of the list.  Then you'll find Plex.  Then, if you're lucky, Emby.

 

People using Emby have tried those tools and generally rejected them.  The Kodi user experience was so well-received in this house that my wife told me to uninstall 'that shitty program and bring the DVDs back out' so she could watch movies again.

 

For those that like Kodi, it's an option as a client.  Making it the default client wouldn't make any damn sense.

 

+1 for this.  Went thru the gamut of several media servers and players before deciding on Emby.  It hit all the right notes making the others pretty obsolete in my opinion.  Having the same look and feel across any and all devices was very important for me. 

 

In a world of DRM and DMCA I'm not even sure having the Kodi player built in would be a good idea.  They kind of got a bad rep for awhile with plugins that allowed streaming illegal content.  And if im not mistaken is why they arent on as many platforms as Plex and Emby are.  Whether they deserve the rep or not is besides the point.  Now that it exists I would almost bet money that if Samsung saw a Kodi player package sitting inside the emby code submitted to be on a Samsung smart TV its getting rejected.

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