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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
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[โ€“] malios@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have the hosted part taken care of but the other half of the issue is the media player side for people that are not technical at all. They basically need a device where they can open an app that just works and have a simple interface to navigate around and play media.

[โ€“] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

If the media is stored locally or on a network share on your LAN, then Kodi will work well for that. When you first instal it, tell it where you keep your files and enable auto scan on startup. After that, you just open it and browse your TV show or movie library.

If you want to stream the media away from home things get a bit more complicated.