I didn't catch this until you called it out. While I reading I was anticipating an argument that would convince me that I need Kyoo. I'm not convinced that its setup once and forget it -- especially since it also says that its not afraid of adding more services (complexity). Further, the hard stance on cinema only instead of books, games, etc made me think that the project was rigid. Making me potentially add more services to manage all of my entertainment media.
As a user, you don't really need to care about the number of containers since everything is managed by docker-compose or k8s (soon).
The advantages of having more containers is that you can have specialized softwares. For example, the search system is based on meilisearch which makes it way better than what could have been done by just using postgres/sqlite.
It also makes distribution or replication built-in (for example, to have a transcoder on a remote computer), jellyfin/plex does not support this natively and users have written their own remote transcoder for that.
I was also surprised by that bit about adding more services:
> We're not afraid to bring in additional containers when it makes sense
That is one of the last things I'm thinking about when I choose a media organization and streaming app, and if I do think about it, having more containers is a red flag more than something that sets my mind at ease, because of that added complexity. I experienced this with Photoprism when I wanted to customize it a bit, because I then had to figure out the roles of the containers and which containers did and did not need the customization bits I was adding, etc..
You're right, but in today's github if you want to stand out you need this kind of readme or an existing community. To be fair, the important features are in bold and the philosophy/why another browser is handwritten.
I'd still recommend reviewing the output more closely, particularly in top-level paragraphs.
> Designed from the ground up, Kyoo stands out as a powerful alternative to Plex and Jellyfin.
This sentence doesn't really mean anything - designed from the ground up to do what? Plex and Jellyfine were both designed as well, so part of the first hype paragraph has me sitting here wondering what information was supposed to be conveyed here.
Project looks nice, though, and I have been wanting to move away from Plex for a while. Lack of TV/iOS apps is unfortunately a blocker for me, but bookmarking to check out 6 months from now. Good luck!
tdhz77|1 year ago
zoriya|1 year ago
hoherd|1 year ago
> We're not afraid to bring in additional containers when it makes sense
That is one of the last things I'm thinking about when I choose a media organization and streaming app, and if I do think about it, having more containers is a red flag more than something that sets my mind at ease, because of that added complexity. I experienced this with Photoprism when I wanted to customize it a bit, because I then had to figure out the roles of the containers and which containers did and did not need the customization bits I was adding, etc..
unknown|1 year ago
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zoriya|1 year ago
cthalupa|1 year ago
> Designed from the ground up, Kyoo stands out as a powerful alternative to Plex and Jellyfin.
This sentence doesn't really mean anything - designed from the ground up to do what? Plex and Jellyfine were both designed as well, so part of the first hype paragraph has me sitting here wondering what information was supposed to be conveyed here.
Project looks nice, though, and I have been wanting to move away from Plex for a while. Lack of TV/iOS apps is unfortunately a blocker for me, but bookmarking to check out 6 months from now. Good luck!