You can’t really compare the two. Kodi is a media player. Jellyfin is a media server and has a bunch of clients to access that sever. There’s even a kodi addon to connect to Jellyfin. It’s called jellycon and I am experimenting with it now.
They work great together. I have jellyfin as my media server / manager /backend, and kodi on my nvidia shield connected to my TV as my main media player / frontend. In kodi, the jellyfin plugin syncs all metadata from jellyfin to kodi’s library, and streams the media from my jellyfin.
How does Jellyfin compare to Kodi?
You can’t really compare the two. Kodi is a media player. Jellyfin is a media server and has a bunch of clients to access that sever. There’s even a kodi addon to connect to Jellyfin. It’s called jellycon and I am experimenting with it now.
Different use cases.
They work great together. I have jellyfin as my media server / manager /backend, and kodi on my nvidia shield connected to my TV as my main media player / frontend. In kodi, the jellyfin plugin syncs all metadata from jellyfin to kodi’s library, and streams the media from my jellyfin.