However, Kodi allows you to install third-party add-ons, too. The add-ons in Kodi's official catalog are all approved by Kodi and safe to use. We do not condone any illegal behaviors, and there may be penalties for such uses for those who are caught.Īnother point of legality stems from the add-ons you can use with Kodi. Naturally, given its agnostic and hands-off approach, content pirates might use Kodi to manage their ill-gotten media library. However, Kodi does not discriminate between legal and illegally obtained content. Perhaps my question is out of the reach of this forum (and I apologize for that, feel free to delete the thread if necessary), but I would like to know the experience of other forum members using such a device constellation (OMV with plex + Fire Stick).If you use Kodi to manage your local and legally acquired media collection, it is completely legal. That should imply no transcoding in the server side, but I would like to corroborate before buying it. The Fire Stick specification page says that it should support AC3 audio.

I was thinking about upgrading to a Fire Stick.

See the signature), and it certainly does not have the muscle to transcode. My OMV runs on a Atom 330 (nice, small, power efficient and silent. Subtitles are also an issue since the Chromecast does not support subtitles. mkv in 720p - 1080p with AC3 audio, but Chromecast does not like AC3. The reason is, I am currently using a Chromecast as Plex client, and in order to work, Plex has to transcode almost everything. I would like to know if somebody in the forum is using the Plex plugin to stream to a Fire Stick.

Installing plex on firestick