How does Jellyfin work on Kodi? (LibreElec)

[TheDreadPirate]

I've only used Kodi for testing on LAN, so I can't definitively comment on whether Kodi can access content on its own outside of your LAN. My understanding is no. It primarily uses NFS/SMB.

One of the JF/Kodi devs commented on this old Reddit post describing the difference between the two Jellyfin plugins for Kodi.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen...t/g25zc9h/

Whether or not you need to install them depends on whether your content is going to be migrated to a different host. If you plan on running Jellyfin on another host and also migrating the content to be hosted there, you would need to install one of these plugins.

If your RPi running Kodi will continue to host the media, you don't have to install either plugin. You can run Jellyfin on another host, use SMB to allow Jellyfin to access the media on the RPi, and use Jellyfin clients on your other devices.