joshf87 0 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) I've been using Kodi a long time and wanted a better solution to synchronizing and/or watching my media across many devices, a lot of the solutions with Kodi (including setting up a MySQL server or UPNP library sharing) came up short. I have issues with Kodi/MySQL locking up when more than one device is trying to access the database at the same time. I have a lot of DVD/Blu-ray structured movies so Plex was out of the question unless I wanted to convert EVERYTHING to MKV since they flat out refuse to support it. Streaming/Transcoding through the web interface it's usually a few foreign films (I prefer to keep the original audio tracks even if they have English dub and subs), multiple cut (directors/extended/unrated/etc), or have menus, that have issues but I decided to convert/split these to MKV with MakeMKV and have worked well. There are a handful DVDs they transcode to a mere 600 kbps bitrate (blurry as hell) for unknown reasons but the majority of them work fine. I am seriously considering a Premiere license at the time, mostly for the Emby Theater app since it uses MPV and that bypasses the need to transcode most of the time, but am sill evaluating. Good work. Edited April 29, 2018 by joshf87
ddurdle 75 Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 KODI is a great media player but the centralized-library for device won't work going forward.
joshf87 0 Posted April 29, 2018 Author Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) KODI is a great media player but the centralized-library for device won't work going forward. Indeed, Kodi is still a great media player. It's no secret to me that all these programs use open-source FFmpeg as their backend, mpv included. I regularly compile MPlayer binaries (which uses FFmpeg) for Windows and sometimes send bug/debug reports pertaining to FFmpeg. What's really selling me on Emby is multi-user support, you want to make the media available to other members of the household but not have them accidentally delete, modify the files, or have access to managing the server. Edited April 29, 2018 by joshf87
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