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I moved away from Kodi over to Plex (later Jellyfin) for the following reasons: - Jellyfin lets me keep track of what i watched regardless of where. I can wat

I moved away from Kodi over to Plex (later Jellyfin) for the following reasons: - Jellyfin lets me keep track of what i watched regardless of where. I can watch half a show in my office, and resume where i left off in my family room. - Jellyfin fully supports multiple users, so my kids can have their own profiles, there own "in progress" management, etc. - There is no need to setup anything like NFS/Samba to share the library, jellyfin connects to the central server which stores the media and runs the jellyfin server. Some of this can be done in Kodi, via a mysql connection but it is baked into jellyfin. If i was starting out building a home media server from scratch, jellyfin would be high on my list. Just my 5 cents.

JeremyNT 4y ago
Jellyfin also has much better metadata handling / downloading and the web UI is great for streaming to anything without needing to install a client. It's worth mentioning that, if you love / are invested in Kodi, there's a jellyfin plugin for it that will allow you to access the JF library directly. It supports realtime transcoding for stuff that the browser (or client) doesn't know how to play. A lot of the features that work "out of the box" in JF are technically possible to add to Kodi through existing plugins, but that's a lot more care and feeding than just installing JF and connecting to it.