Kodi and Plex share a similar lineage, but have diverged into distinct home media server options. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Since then, I have explored bespoke themes, experimented with add-ons, optimized my settings, and refined my media library to create a personalized media hub. I'm now much happier with my Kodi ...

Kodi is a popular, open source, cross-platform media center application that started its life as XBMC, a project aimed at turning the original Xbox game console into a media server for your TV. These ...

Kodi Media Center, formerly known as XBMC, which is an open source alternative to Plex, has just gotten a pretty decent update. At least in the nightly builds. Kodi Media Center allows you to play ...

If you run your own media server, you've likely weighed up the pros and cons of Kodi and Plex. Normally, you'd run one or the other, but some enterprising developers have fused the two, creating third ...

I loved using Plex to stream all my media and had it installed on our primary network-attached storage (NAS) enclosure for years, but the added bloat and introduction of streaming from other sources ...

A highly-regarded media browser and playback tool, Plex Media Player, has exited subscriber-only status, and is now free for Mac users. With the update, the Plex Media Player also has been given a ...

I'm using haneWIN NFS Server. I have the application configured as described here. I added all the folders I wanted to share in exports, and restarted the server. Kodi on my Fire TV hangs when I try ...