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==XBMC (latest SVN trunk) supports the following: ==
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''For point releases, see [[:Category:Point Release]]''


===Xbox supported hardware platforms and Xbox options===
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*Compatible with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox modded retail Xbox™], Debug/Development-Xbox and [http://www.friendtech.com/pages/xbox.htm DreamX]
<section begin="intro" />'''[[Kodi|{{kodi}}]]''' can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive. Kodi will [[adding videos to the library|scan all of your media and create a personalized library]] complete with boxcovers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.<section end="intro" />
*Fully control XBMC and its features via a [http://www.xbox.com/sv-SE/hardware/d/dvdplaybackkit/ Xbox™ IR DVD-Remote]
*Fully control XBMC and its features via a [http://www.xbox.com/sv-se/hardware/x/xboxcontroller-s/ Xbox™ game controller]
*Controllable via [[USB Keyboard and Mouse Support|USB (HID) Mouse]] (Left/Right/Middle buttons and Wheel supported) [[#Notes|#1]]
*Controllable via [[USB Keyboard and Mouse Support|USB (HID) Keyboard]] (ASCI-keys only, not any multimedia-keys) [[#Notes|#1]]
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===Xbox supported output media formats and devices:===
=== KODI's Add-ons Manager and add-ons ===
*TV-output: 50hz/60Hz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntsc NTSC]-M/J (America/Asia) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL PAL] (Europe/Africa)
{{#lst:Add-ons|intro}}
*Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support
*RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB ([http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/catalog.aspx?g=203000000&p=1&c=10&s=0&xlm=0&h=0&r=0 adapter available])
*VGA-output is also possible via [http://www.x2vga.com third-party adapters] or [http://xbmc.org/docs/VGA-native.txt VGA-hacked BIOS]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntsc NTSC] playback on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL PAL] Xbox/TV and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL PAL] playback on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntsc NTSC] Xbox/TV
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtv HDTV] support, multiple resolutions 480p/720p/1080i ([http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/catalog.aspx?g=203000000&p=1&c=10&s=0&xlm=0&h=0&r=0 Xbox cable-adapter required])
*[http://www.xbmc.xbox-scene.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14370 LCD-display output] support to view status and control XBMC with TV OFF [[#Notes|#8]]
*Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono-connection or scart-adapter
*Digital audio-out (stereo/mono/surround) SPDIF ([http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/catalog.aspx?g=203000000&p=1&c=10&s=0&xlm=0&h=0&r=0 adapter required])
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===Xbox supported input media formats and devices:===  
==== Scrapers (web scraping for metadata) ====
*Play media-files directly from a CD, VCD or DVD media in the Xbox's DVD-ROM drive [[#Notes|#2]]
XBMC/Kodi has the built-in optional function to automatically download metadata information, cover art and other related media artwork online through its web scrapers that looks for media in the user's audio / video folders and their sub-directories. These "scrapers" are this way used as importers to obtain detailed information from various Internet resources about movies and television shows. It can get synopses, reviews, movie posters, titles, genre classification, and other similar data. XBMC/Kodi GUI then provide a rich display for audio and video files that the scrapers has identified.
**(Supported CD/DVD formats:  ISO 9660 Mode1/2/XA, UDF 1.02 and XDVDFS/CDX)
*Play media-files directly from Xbox built-in hard drive or a network) [[#Notes|#4]]
*Stream media-files from a computer over a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_area_network network] via [[UPnP Sharing|UPnP]] [[Windows_ccx_gui_%28xbms%29|XBMS]], or [[Windows_File_Sharing_%28samba/smb%29|SMB/SAMBA/CIFS]]
**Including all [[NAS (Network Attached Storage)]] that support [[UPnP Sharing|UPnP]] or [[Windows_File_Sharing_%28samba/smb%29|SMB/SAMBA/CIFS]]
* iTunes Music Shares via [[ITunes (DAAP)|DAAP]] (network stream from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes Apple iTunes 6.x] on Mac or PC) [[#Notes|#5]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Stream supported media-files from the internet (if the stream-format is supported too) [[#Notes|#5]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Stream media STORED, (NOT COMPRESSED), directly from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar RAR] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_%28file_format%29 ZIP] archives
*Xbox Memory Cards (FATX) and [[USB Mass Storage support in XBMC|USB Mass Storage Devices]] (FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 formated)
**Including most [[USB Mass Storage support in XBMC|USB Mass Storage Devices (like memory-keys/sticks) smaller than 4GB]]
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===Supported file/container formats:===
Scrapers use sites like themoviedb.org to obtain thumbnails and information on movies, thetvdb.com for TV show posters and episode plots, or CDDB (via freedb and Discogs, etc.) for audio CD track listings.
*Audio-CD (CDDA) playback for normal audio CD's (including CD-TEXT support [[#Notes|#7]])
*SVCD and VCD (Video CD) video, (SVCD/VCD menus are not supported yet)
*DVD-Video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM drive, Harddisk-drive or network
*MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)
*MPEG-TS (TY/TS/DV) DVB transport stream format
*MP4 (MPEG-4 video) container
*RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container
*OpenDML AVI (AVI 2.0) container [[#Notes|#1]]
*[http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch/bivx.htm BivX] (AVI with several audio streams) container
*Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers [[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://forum.xbmc.org//showthread.php?t=34 Microsoft DVR-MS (Windows Media Center) containers]  [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://www.apple.com/quicktime QuickTime] QT/MOV containers [[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/ Nullsoft Steaming Video (NSV)] containers [[#Notes|#1]]
*[http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/ Nullsoft Steaming Audio (NSA)] containers
*MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers [[#Notes|#5]]
*AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) audio containers [[#Notes|#5]]
*RealMedia ([http://www.real.com Real] Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers [[#Notes|#1]]
*[http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ OGG] and OGM containers
*[http://www.matroska.org/ Matroska (матрёшка)] MKV containers [[#Notes|#1]]
*VIVO (VIV) containers
*PVA containers
*NuppelVideo containers
*FLI and FLC containers
*Tracker Mods ([http://mikmod.raphnet.net/#features 18 formats supported]) audio
*M3U, PLS, CUE and STRM audio/video playlists [[#Notes|#1]]
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===Supported video codecs:===
==== Skins (themes) ====
*MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video
Skins allow users to drastically change the appearance and fundamental user interface of XBMC/Kodi. "Confluence" and "Project Mayhem" are the two official skins; "Confluence" is the default since version 9.11, and "Project Mayhem" was the previous default which is now in its third version, commonly known as "PM3.HD" (PM III High-Definition).
*[http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=73022 MPEG-4 ASP]: DivX;-) 3.11, OpenDivX 4.0, [http://www.divx.com DivX] 5.x/6.x (Pro), [http://www.xvid.org XviD] 1.x and [http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/index.html Nero Digital ASP]
*[http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96059 MPEG-4 AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264)]; [http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/index.html Nero Digital AVC] and [http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264] video codec [[#Notes|#1]]
*Microsoft's Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2, and v3)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1 VC-1 (SMPTE 421M)]
*RealVideo codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (RealPlayer G2), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9)
*QuickTime 5.0, 6.0, 6.3 video and audio codecs (QDMC / QDM2) [[#Notes|#1]]
*3ivx D4 / 3vi1 MPEG-4 video (inc. MSZH/ZLIB Compressed-Header containers) [[#Notes|#1]]
*Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video
*Apple Graphics (SMC) video
*[http://www.on2.com On2 Technologies] VP3 (VP3.x), VP4 (VP4.x), VP5 (VP5.x), and VP6 (VP6.2)
*[http://www.intel.com/labs/archive/indeo.htm Intel Indeo] 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3)  
*[http://frost.htu.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo/ NuppelVideo] (NUV)
*VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)
*ITU H.261 video
*Creative Labs YUV (CYUV) video
*Supermac Cinepak (CVID) video
*ASUS V1 (ASV1) and ASUS V2 (ASV2) video
*Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation
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===Xbox supported video formats and resolutions===
Users can also create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites that are used for XBMC/Kodi skins trading and development. Many such third-party skins exist that are well maintained by the community, and while some skins are originals with unique designs, most initially begin as a clones or an exact replica of other multimedia software interfaces, such as DivX Connected, Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center Edition (MCE), MediaPortal, Meedio/MeediOS, HDeeTV, Kaleidescape, Wii Channel Menu (Xii), Xbox 360 Blades (MC360), Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience (Xperience), and others.
This is a comparison table of common video-codecs to show what the Xbox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III 733Mhz PIII CPU] can handle:
{| style="background:black; color:white"
!width=150 | Codec / Resolution
!width=30 | 352x240
!width=30 | 352x288
!width=30 | 480x480
!width=30 | 480x576
!width=30 | 720x480
!width=30 | 720x576
!width=30 | 960x540
!width=35 | 1280x720
!width=35 | 1920x1080
|---- align="center"
| style="background:white; color:black" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1 MPEG-1] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2 MPEG-2]
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 1
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 2
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 3
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 4
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 5
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 6
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:orange; color:black" | 7*
| style="background:red; color:black" | 7
|---- align="center"
| style="background:white; color:black" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4 MPEG-4 ASP (H.263)] (like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX DivX] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid Xvid])
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" | 8
| style="background:orange; color:black" | 9*
| style="background:red; color:black" | 10
|---- align="center"
| style="background:white; color:black" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)] without [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Profiles Cabac & Deblocking]
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:orange; color:black" | *
| style="background:orange; color:black" | ?
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
|---- align="center"
| style="background:white; color:black" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Profiles Cabac & Deblocking]
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:orange; color:black" | *
| style="background:orange; color:black" | ?
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" | 11
| style="background:red; color:black" | 12
|---- align="center"
| style="background:white; color:black" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMV WMV9 (Windows Media Video v3)] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1 VC-1]
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:lime; color:black" |
| style="background:orange; color:black" | *
| style="background:orange; color:black" | *
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
| style="background:red; color:black" |
|}


::" ? " = Undetermined (the Xbox-hardware may or may not be too slow to decode at an acceptable frame-rate)
The flexibility offered by the XBMC/Kodi skinning-engine is also useful for third-party companies who wish to make derivative work of Kodi as it makes it easy to rebrand the environment or make deeper changes to the look and feel of the user interface.
::" * " = Working with acceptable frame-rates most of the time


:#a.k.a. NTSC VCD - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD More Info]
==== Web Interfaces ====
:#a.k.a. PAL VCD - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD More Info]
Web Interface addons for Kodi normally allow browsing a media library remotely, to handle music playlists from a computer instead of television. Others allow remotely controlling the navigation of Kodi like a remote for remote controlling of an installed and concurrently-active Kodi session running on a computer if it runs on an internet tablet or similar device with a touch interface. And yet other still acts like a media manager to allow modifying metadata and artwork in XBMC's video and music libraries.
:#a.k.a. NTSC SVCD - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVCD More Info]
:#a.k.a. PAL SVCD - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVCD More Info]
:#a.k.a. NTSC DVD-Video - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video More Info]
:#a.k.a. PAL DVD-Video - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video More Info]
:#a.k.a. TS (Transport Stream MPEG-2 Video Stream) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_stream More Info]
:#a.k.a. HRHD (High Resolution High Definition) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Resolution_High_Definition More Info]
:#a.k.a. DivX HD and XviD HD in 720p
:#a.k.a. DivX HD and XviD HD in 1080p
:#a.k.a. Quicktime HD, x264, and Nero AG's Nero Digital AVC video in 720p
:#a.k.a. Quicktime HD, x264, and Nero AG's Nero Digital AVC video in 1080p


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=== Live TV with EPG and PVR / DVR frontend ===
From version 12 (Frodo) {{Kodi}} has a native Live TV with EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and DVR (Digital Video Recorder) features with a unified PVR (Personal Video Recorder) frontend GUI, enabling control of television video capture and playback to and from a hard disk drive with PVR Client Addons for most popular PVR backends (TV tuner card server) that can be installed separately as addons inside {{Kodi}.


===Supported audio codecs:===
PVR backend can either be networked DVR set-top box appliance hardware or PC-based digital video recorder software which can run on the same computer or other computers on the same network. PVR backend software and hardware is available which can turn personal computers running Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X into PVR/DVR backends.
*CDDA (Audio-CD) playback
*WAV/WAVE (WAVEform) and PCM audio format
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiff AIFF] (Audio Interchange File Format) audio
*MPEG layer I, II, and III (inluding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1_Audio_Layer_II MP2] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3 MP3]) audio [[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ OGG] ([http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ Ogg Vorbis audio codec])
*WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1/2 / DivX Audio v1/v2) [[#Notes|#5]]
*WMA - Windows Media Audio v9 (WMA9) (via WMA9 DLL's) [[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realaudio RealNetworks RealAudio] codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, DNET and ATRAC3
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital#Dolby_Digital AC3] 2.0 or 5.1 and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital#Dolby_Digital_EX Dolby Digital EX] 6.1 or 7.1 audio in video (AC3 digital cable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF S/PDIF] 48Khz pass-through)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital Dolby Digital] AC3 and AC3-WAV/AC3-CDDA 2.0 and 5.1 audio in video software decoded to stereo analog-out
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_System DTS (Digital Theater System)] 5.1 and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_System#DTS_variants DTS-ES] 6.1 audio in DVD-Video (DTS digital cable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF S/PDIF] 48Khz pass-through)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_System DTS] (DTS and DTS-WAV/DTS-CDDA) 44.1Khz/48Khz audio in DVD-Video (software decoded)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)] profiles: Main, LC, HE, LTP, LD, ER, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Extensions_.26_improvements aacPlus v1/v2 (AAC+SBR/PS)] audio [[#Notes|#5]]
*M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio) (including Nero Digital MP4) [[#Notes|#5]]
*[http://flac.sourceforge.net FLAC] (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio
*[http://www.wavpack.com WavPack] audio
*[http://www.musepack.net MPC] (Musepack, a.k.a. Mpeg+ audio) [[#Notes|#6]]
*[http://www.monkeysaudio.com APE] (Monkey's Audio ) audio
*[http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shorten/ SHN] (Shorten) audio
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALAC ALAC] (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) audio [[#Notes|#6]]t
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi MIDI] music using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiMidity Timidity]
*Tracker Mod's audio, see list below:
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdLib Adlib] (AdLib and Sound Blaster OPL2/OPL3 and Dual OPL2/OPL3) FM audio
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_SID SID] (Commodore 64 tunes) audio
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST YM] (ATARI ST) audio
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsf NSF] (Nintendo NES Sound Format) audio
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPC700_sound_format SPC] (SPC700) audio
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.GYM GYM] (SEGA Genesis) audio
**[http://www.halleyscometsoftware.com/in_cube.html ADX/AST/ADP/DSP/YMF/HPS] [http://www.cri-mw.com/example/example_e.htm CRI MiddleWare] and Gamecube [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADPCM ADPCM]) audio
**([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file MOD]/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM)
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===Supported picture/image formats:===
PVR Client Addons are available for many PVR backend software and hardware such as Argus TV, DVBViewer, ForTheRecord, Tvheadend, MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR (formerly GB-PVR), VDR, WMC (Windows Media Center), and Enigma2-based DVR set-top boxes such as Dreambox and Vu+, as well as PVR Client Addons for direct LAN connection to Network Attached TV-Tuners such as Silicon Dust HDHomeRun and Njoy Digital AnySee N7 DVB-S2 network-tuners.
*BMP picture/image
*JPG/JPEG picture/image
*GIF picture/image
*PNG picture/image
*TIF/TIFF picture/image
*TGA picture/image
*PCX picture/image
*ICO picture/image
*CBR/CBZ comic books
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===Features available for video playback:===  
=== Audio, video, and pictures playback and handling ===
*Full-screen playback display of all supported video formats/containers via a TV
XBMC/Kodi can play media from CD/DVD media using an internal DVD-ROM drive or Blu-ray Discs (unencrypted). It can also play media from an internal built-in hard disk drive and SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing), NFS, WebDAV or UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares. XBMC/Kodi can also take advantage of a broadband Internet connection if available to stream Internet-video-streams like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, and Veoh, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as Pandora Radio). XBMC/Kodi also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and Libre.fm. It also has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function and many audio-visualizations and screensavers. XBMC/Kodi can in addition upscale/upconvert all standard-definition (480i/480p/576i/576p) resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, and 1080p high-definition resolutions.
*Auto PAL50/PAL60-switching support and auto 4:3/16:9-switching support
*Framerate Conversion (23.98<->25fps), another NTSC <-> PAL workaround solution
*SQL database with view by file/genre/actor/year/title and sort by year/name/rating
*Selectable options from OSD (On Screen Display) Control Panel during playback
*FFWD (fast-forward) and RWD (rewind [[#Notes|#1]]), and PAUSE in AVI/OGM/MKV/MPEG/MPG media
*MPlayer time-based (30sec/5min) or percent-based (2%/10%) seeking forward and backward
*Video-Autorun, auto-plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/CD's with video file(s) upon insert
*DVD-video playback with menus (from DVD, harddrive, network, as IFO/VOB or ISO/IMG DVD-images) [[#Notes|#12]]
*Play supported video files directly from ISO, BIN, IMG, NRG and BIN CD/DVD-images
*Subtitle support (MicroDVD, srt, smi, vplayer, rt, ssa, aqt, sub, jss, mpl & VobSub) [[#Notes|#11]]
*Play internet files/streams from HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol) [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Play RealMedia internet steams of HTTP + RTSP/RDT (Real Data Transport Protocol) [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*[http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/ Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV)] internet-streams (only if VP3+MP3), (Nullsoft TV a.k.a. [http://www.nullsoft.com/ntv/ NTV]) [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Streaming video from a [http://www.tivo.com TiVo] DVR box over network (requires hacked TiVo running [http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xbplayer/ccxstream-1.0.15-tivo.tar.gz ccXStream]) [[#Notes|#1]]
*Streaming video from a [http://www.replaytv.com ReplayTV] (4500, 5000 or 5500 series) DVR box over network [[#Notes|#1]]
*[[IMDB|IMDb (Internet Movie Database)]] information lookup for movie-info and thumbnails
**Can also extract specific [[IMDB|IMDb]] URL a .nfo file with same file-name as the movie
*Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization (see [[My_Videos#Thumbnails|thumbnail options]])
*Stack multi-file videos option, show/play files with 90% name similarity as one
*Support for local moving trailer files (using the naming standard: "moviename-trailer.avi")
*[[EDL (commercial skipping) and SceneMarker support]] using chapter files
**EDL (Edit Decision List)
** ComSkip .txt (with framerate, like Comskip generates)
** VideoReDo
** SnapStream Beyond TV Smart Chapters (a.k.a. smartskip)
*Switch between multiple audio streams/tracks in DVD-Video, AVI, OGM and MKV/Matroska
**Left, Right Mono and Stereo channel selection available for all two channel audio-streams
*Multiple [[Rendering|video-rendering]] options to optimize playback of your video-formats
*Different Post-Processing filters for better video quality [[#Notes|#11]]
*Flicker-filter (optional video flicker-filter with five levels, disabled by default)
*Soften-filter (optional filter to decrease video sharpness and thus artifacts)
*De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implementation option
*Brightness/Contrast/Gamma controls (only for HighQuality Pixelshader)
*Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions
*Screenshot capture function (including video overlay support and OSD)
*AC3 (Dolby Digital EAX) 2.0, 5.1 and 7.1 pass-through from video to SP/DIF AC3 output
*AC3 (Dolby Digital) 5.1 -> 2.0 software-decoding to PCM stereo or mono out
*DTS (Digital Theatre Sound ES) pass-through from video to S/PDIF DTS output
*Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
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===Features available for audio playback:===  
==== Format support ====
*Playback of all supported audio-formats via a TV or external audio-receiver/amplifier
XBMC/Kodi can be used to play/view all common multimedia formats through its native clients and parsers. It can decode these audio and video formats in software or hardware, and optionally pass-through AC3/DTS/HD audio, or encode to AC3 in real time from movies directly to S/PDIF digital output to an external audio-amplifier/receiver for decoding.
*SQL database with view music by Top100/Albums/Tracks/Artists/Filenames or Recent Albums
**Also option to sort by Track/Filename/Date or Size and search functions
*Karaoke CDG-file display for music files with audio-visualization overlay support
*[http://www.freedb.org CDDB] album lookup support when playing Audio-CD's (done via [http://www.freedb.org freedb.org])
*Gapless and Crossfade playback support options
*[http://www.replaygain.org ReplayGain] "MetaData" applification/normalization (loudness control) support
*Thumbnail and album information lookup for Audio-CD's (done via [http://www.allmusic.com AMG/Allmusic.com])
*Display embedded tumbnails/icons (album artwork) if integrated into a MP3 or AAC file
*Optional custom file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization (see [[My_Music#Thumbnails|thumbnail options]])
*Audio-Autorun, auto-plays CDDA and music DVD/CD's with audio file(s) upon insert
*Play internet-files/streams from HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol) [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Play RealMedia internet steams of HTTP + RTSP/RDT (Real Data Transport Protocol) [[#Notes|#1]]/[[#Notes|#11]]
*Play soundtracks ripped by/in Xbox dashboard (add path "soundtrack://" to XML)
*Play supported audio files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images
*Reads [http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html ID3v1]/[http://www.id3.org/easy.html ID3v2]/[http://www.alpha-ii.com/snesmusic/files/spc_file_format.txt ID666]/APEv1/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEv2_tag APEv2] info-tags from audio/music-files
*M3U and PLS audio playlists (inc. option to create/save M3U audio-playlists)
*[http://www.shoutcast.com SHOUTcast] Internet Radio (MP3 .pls playlists) playback support
*Local/native [http://www.shoutcast.com SHOUTcast] recording (to MP3) onto the Xbox harddrive
*[[LastFM|last.fm]] (AudioScrobbler) online-radio submission and playback/streaming support
*Audio Visualizations (several visual generators and a spectrum analyser)
*FF (fast-forward) and RW (rewind), and PAUSE during audio playback/visualization
*Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
<br>


===Features available for picture/image viewing:===
;Supported formats
*Full-screen display of all supported picture and image formats via a TV
* '''Physical digital media:''' Blu-ray Disc (unencrypted), CDs, DVDs, DVD-Video, Video CDs (including VCD/SVCD/XVCD), Audio-CD (CDDA), USB Flash Drives, and local Hard Disk Drives
*Picture slideshow, including option for adding recursive to slideshows
* '''Network protocol clients:''' AirPlay/AirTunes, UPnP, SMB/SAMBA/CIFS, AFP, Zeroconf/Avahi/Bonjour, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT), MMS (MMSU, MMST), Podcasting, TCP, UDP, SFTP, RTP and RTMP (including RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE, RTMPS), DHCP, NTP, WebDAV
*Picture thumbnails (automatically generated on demand)
Network protocol servers: JSON-RPC server, D-Bus server, Web server, FTP Server, and UPnP AV media server, and a multi-protocol Event Server
*Folder thumbnails (automatically generated after entered that folder)
* '''Container formats:''' AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV/MKA (Matroska), QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, DVR-MS, WTV, TRP and F4V.
*View pictures directly from ISO, IMG, NRG and BIN CD/DVD-images
* '''Video formats:''' MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak.
*Picture Zooming, rotate, move around, info, pause, next/previous picture
* '''Audio formats:''' MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (Nintendo GameCube), and CDDA.
*[http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/9/511&pq-locale=en_US Kodak PictureCD compatible] (auto-launches slideshow on CD insert) [[#Notes|#2]]
* '''Digital picture/image formats:''' BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, Targa/TGA and WebP
*Auto-launches picture CD/DVD on insert if images in root directory
* '''Subtitle formats:''' AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer
<br>
* '''Metadata tags:''' APEv1, APEv2, ID3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), ID666 and Vorbis comments for audio file formats, Exif and IPTC (including GeoTagging) for image file formats


===Features available for launching games and applications (dashboard):===
==== Video playback in detail ====
====My Programs interface features:====
===== Video Library =====
*Dashboard replacement mode, launch other Xbox software applications ("XBE" executables)
The Video Library, one of the Kodi metadata databases, is a key feature of XBMC/Kodi. It allows the organization of video content by information associated with the video files (e.g. movies and recorded TV Shows) themselves. This information can be obtained in various ways, like through scrapers (i.e. web scraping sites like TheMovieDB, TheTVDB, etc.), and nfo files. Automatically downloading and displaying movie posters and fan art backdrops as background wallpapers. The Library view allows users to browse their video content by categories; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.
**(including Xbox games, console-emulators, applications and other dashboards, etc.)
*Optional custom thumbnails for folders and the executable, (see [[Thumbnails|thumbnail options]] for info)
*Display embedded tumbnails/icons that are integrated into most Xbox executables for Xbox games
*Video Mode Switching to force launching a game a specific video-mode (PAL, PAL60, NTSC, etc.)
*Flicker-Filter settings for Xbox games, (creates a patched copy of all default.xbe with new setting)


====XLink Kai (online gaming) front-end features in XBMC for Xbox:====
===== Video player =====
*Kai connection/cummunity front-end [[#Notes|#9]]
*Kai hosting options [[#Notes|#9]]
*Kai text-chat [[#Notes|#9]]
*Kai Voice-chat (using SPEEX) [[#Notes|#9]]
*Kai Toast - pop up notifications for XLink Kai [[#Notes|#9]]


====Xored Trainer Engine (gaming cheats) in XBMC for Xbox:====
XBMC/Kodi uses a video-player 'core' for video-playback called "[[DVDPlayer]]". This in-house developed cross-platform media player was originally designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). DVDPlayer is based on FFmpeg and today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images or DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) images (even directly from uncompressed RAR and ZIP archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.
*[[Using_Trainers|Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine]] enable "training" of games to cheat and/or add new functions to Xbox games [[#Notes|#10]]
*Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine cannot be used to cheat on XLink Kai (as disabled when logged on to XLink Kai)
<br>


===Other and generic Graphical User Interface (GUI) features:===
==== Audio playback in detail ====
*Controllable via the [http://www.xbox.com/sv-SE/hardware/d/dvdplaybackkit/Xbox™ DVD Remote], a [http://www.xbox.com/sv-se/hardware/x/xboxcontroller-s/ game-pad], USB keyboard and/or USB mouse
===== Music Library =====
*Virtual-Keyboard for manual video/music database searches and settings configurations
The Music Library, one of the XBMC/Kodi metadata databases, is another key feature of XBMC/Kodi. It allows the organization of a music collection to allow searching, and creating smart playlists by information stored in music file ID meta tags, like title, artist, album, production year, genre, and popularity. Automatically downloading and displaying album covers and fan art backdrops as background wallpapers.
*Flexible XML based skinning-engine with GUI skin-switching (and many skins available)
*Context Menu feature (mapped by default to the TITLE button on the remote)
*View file media listing By List, By Small Icons or By Large Icons option
*"My Files" file-manager, move/copy/delete local and copy from network
*"My Weather" weather forecast feature (done via [http://www.weather.com The Weather Channel])
*Several screensavers on configurable timer in GUI to choose from
*RSS feed in main menu (you can manually disable or change feed in RssFeeds.xml)
*[http://www.python.org Python] Script Interpreter Engine (execute/run Python scripts from within XBMC)
*Idle shutdown-timer, which shutsdown XBMC when idle, configurable timer through GUI
*[[Shutdown Menu|Non-ilde shutdown-timer]], shutsdown XBMC even if not idle after specific set manually
*Flicker-filter (optional GUI flicker-filter with five levels, high enabled by default)
*Language (XML) files for translated GUI (over 30+ languages so far), switch from GUI
*International-language fonts for the GUI (via TTF-Fonts, configurable in UI-Settings)
*GUI and video calibration (including storing calibration settings per resolution)
*Displays system info under Settings (Build date, free space, IP, temperature)
*Screenshot capture function, to snap shots of GUI (inc. video overlay support)
*Configurable memory cache buffer for video/audio playback, configured in GUI
<br>


===Other non-GUI features, functions and options:===
===== Audio player cores =====
*Fully re-mappable keys for [http://www.xbox.com/sv-SE/hardware/d/dvdplaybackkit/Xbox™ DVD Remote] and the [http://www.xbox.com/sv-se/hardware/x/xboxcontroller-s/ controller/game-pad] (via Keymap.xml)
For music playback, Kodi includes its own in-house developed audio-player, "PAPlayer" (which stands for "Psycho-Acoustic Audio Player"), and this audio-player core's most notable features are on-the-fly resampling of the audio frequency, gapless playback, crossfading, ReplayGain, cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support. The "PAPlayer" audio-player handles a very large variety of audio file-formats, and it also supports most different tagging standards. XBMC/Kodi also have support for most popular karaoke computer file formats, and is able to play and display timed song lyrics graphics/text from CD+G, LRC, and KAR files.
**Including the possibility to map and use all RCA-5 IR codes from a universal remote
*Auto-detection of UDF 1.02, XDVDFS/CDX and ISO9660 - mode1/mode2/XA [[#Notes|#1]]
*Auto-launch Xbox game-disc on insert with enable/disable optional from within GUI
*Advanced and expert options available via an optional [[AdvancedSettings.xml]] file
*Built-in Web-Server for remote control of XBMC (http//:xboxIPaddressHere.asp)
*Built-in [[WebServerHTTP-API|HTTP API]] interface so you can build custom remote control applications
*Built-in FTP-Server, connect to it via an FTP client to copy files to/from Xbox harddrive
*Supports Static-IP/Subnetmask/DNS/WINS and alternative DHCP-client for auto config
*Clock/date synchronization from a (NT SNTP) Time Server on the network/internet
*Harddrive (HDD) spindown on idle (spin-down disks when XBMC is idle in menu) [[#Notes|#1]]
*[[Error Recovery Mode]] (Emergency Recovery Console) - Enables the FTP-server if get corrupt XBMC system-files.
<br>


==Notes==
==== Digital picture/image display in detail ====
# Experimental, unfinished, unstable, buggy and/or limited<br>
XBMC/Kodi handles all common digital picture/image formats with the options of panning/zooming and slideshow with "Ken Burns Effect", with the use of CxImage open source library code. XBMC/Kodi can also handle CBZ (ZIP) and CBR (RAR) comic book archive files, this feature lets users view/read, browse and zoom the pictures of comics pages these contain without uncompressing them first. Viewing CBR files in Kodi 18 Leia for Windows and upwards will require you to install the RAR Support add-on.
# Most Xbox DVD-ROM drives are very picky with CD/DVD media disks, see FAQ<br>
# XBMC currently only have DVD VOB and IFO parsing support, (no menu support)<br>
# Xbox's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATX FATX] harddrive file-system has file & folder name/character limitations, see FAQ<br>
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management DRM (Digital Rights Management)] protected files are not yet supported by XBMC<br>
# Exclusive to our integrated audio/music-player ([[PAPlayer]])
# Samsung DVD-ROM drive only (and maybe some PC DVD-ROM drives)
# For LCD-display add-on mods compatible with XBMC see [http://www.xbmc.xbox-scene.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14370 here]
# [[Xlink Kai|Xlink Kai tunneling-engine]] running on networked computer with internet-access is required.
# Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine is only developed/maintained/supported by [http://forums.maxconsole.net/forumdisplay.php?f=44 Team Xored].
# Exclusive to our [[MPlayer|MPlayer-based media-player]] (only available in XBMC for Xbox).
# Exclusive to our [[DVDPlayer|DVDPlayer (FFmpeg-based) video-player]].
# Exclusive to '''XBMC for Xbox''' (XBMC running nativly on Xbox game-console).<br><br>


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Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive. Kodi will scan all of your media and create a personalized library complete with boxcovers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

KODI's Add-ons Manager and add-ons

An Add-on is another piece of software that can be added to a program to further expand and enhance the features of that program. Imagine a smart phone and all the additional Apps that can be installed to enhance its functionality. Kodi has the same ability and these apps are referred to as Add-ons. Kodi has a growing list of community driven add-ons which can be installed from a common official repository, while still enabling third-party developers to also host their own unofficial repositories for add-ons that any user can choose to add themselves.

Scrapers (web scraping for metadata)

XBMC/Kodi has the built-in optional function to automatically download metadata information, cover art and other related media artwork online through its web scrapers that looks for media in the user's audio / video folders and their sub-directories. These "scrapers" are this way used as importers to obtain detailed information from various Internet resources about movies and television shows. It can get synopses, reviews, movie posters, titles, genre classification, and other similar data. XBMC/Kodi GUI then provide a rich display for audio and video files that the scrapers has identified.

Scrapers use sites like themoviedb.org to obtain thumbnails and information on movies, thetvdb.com for TV show posters and episode plots, or CDDB (via freedb and Discogs, etc.) for audio CD track listings.

Skins (themes)

Skins allow users to drastically change the appearance and fundamental user interface of XBMC/Kodi. "Confluence" and "Project Mayhem" are the two official skins; "Confluence" is the default since version 9.11, and "Project Mayhem" was the previous default which is now in its third version, commonly known as "PM3.HD" (PM III High-Definition).

Users can also create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites that are used for XBMC/Kodi skins trading and development. Many such third-party skins exist that are well maintained by the community, and while some skins are originals with unique designs, most initially begin as a clones or an exact replica of other multimedia software interfaces, such as DivX Connected, Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center Edition (MCE), MediaPortal, Meedio/MeediOS, HDeeTV, Kaleidescape, Wii Channel Menu (Xii), Xbox 360 Blades (MC360), Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience (Xperience), and others.

The flexibility offered by the XBMC/Kodi skinning-engine is also useful for third-party companies who wish to make derivative work of Kodi as it makes it easy to rebrand the environment or make deeper changes to the look and feel of the user interface.

Web Interfaces

Web Interface addons for Kodi normally allow browsing a media library remotely, to handle music playlists from a computer instead of television. Others allow remotely controlling the navigation of Kodi like a remote for remote controlling of an installed and concurrently-active Kodi session running on a computer if it runs on an internet tablet or similar device with a touch interface. And yet other still acts like a media manager to allow modifying metadata and artwork in XBMC's video and music libraries.

Live TV with EPG and PVR / DVR frontend

From version 12 (Frodo) Kodi has a native Live TV with EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and DVR (Digital Video Recorder) features with a unified PVR (Personal Video Recorder) frontend GUI, enabling control of television video capture and playback to and from a hard disk drive with PVR Client Addons for most popular PVR backends (TV tuner card server) that can be installed separately as addons inside {{Kodi}.

PVR backend can either be networked DVR set-top box appliance hardware or PC-based digital video recorder software which can run on the same computer or other computers on the same network. PVR backend software and hardware is available which can turn personal computers running Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X into PVR/DVR backends.

PVR Client Addons are available for many PVR backend software and hardware such as Argus TV, DVBViewer, ForTheRecord, Tvheadend, MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR (formerly GB-PVR), VDR, WMC (Windows Media Center), and Enigma2-based DVR set-top boxes such as Dreambox and Vu+, as well as PVR Client Addons for direct LAN connection to Network Attached TV-Tuners such as Silicon Dust HDHomeRun and Njoy Digital AnySee N7 DVB-S2 network-tuners.

Audio, video, and pictures playback and handling

XBMC/Kodi can play media from CD/DVD media using an internal DVD-ROM drive or Blu-ray Discs (unencrypted). It can also play media from an internal built-in hard disk drive and SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing), NFS, WebDAV or UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares. XBMC/Kodi can also take advantage of a broadband Internet connection if available to stream Internet-video-streams like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, and Veoh, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as Pandora Radio). XBMC/Kodi also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and Libre.fm. It also has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function and many audio-visualizations and screensavers. XBMC/Kodi can in addition upscale/upconvert all standard-definition (480i/480p/576i/576p) resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, and 1080p high-definition resolutions.

Format support

XBMC/Kodi can be used to play/view all common multimedia formats through its native clients and parsers. It can decode these audio and video formats in software or hardware, and optionally pass-through AC3/DTS/HD audio, or encode to AC3 in real time from movies directly to S/PDIF digital output to an external audio-amplifier/receiver for decoding.

Supported formats
  • Physical digital media: Blu-ray Disc (unencrypted), CDs, DVDs, DVD-Video, Video CDs (including VCD/SVCD/XVCD), Audio-CD (CDDA), USB Flash Drives, and local Hard Disk Drives
  • Network protocol clients: AirPlay/AirTunes, UPnP, SMB/SAMBA/CIFS, AFP, Zeroconf/Avahi/Bonjour, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT), MMS (MMSU, MMST), Podcasting, TCP, UDP, SFTP, RTP and RTMP (including RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE, RTMPS), DHCP, NTP, WebDAV

Network protocol servers: JSON-RPC server, D-Bus server, Web server, FTP Server, and UPnP AV media server, and a multi-protocol Event Server

  • Container formats: AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV/MKA (Matroska), QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, DVR-MS, WTV, TRP and F4V.
  • Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak.
  • Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (Nintendo GameCube), and CDDA.
  • Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, Targa/TGA and WebP
  • Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer
  • Metadata tags: APEv1, APEv2, ID3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), ID666 and Vorbis comments for audio file formats, Exif and IPTC (including GeoTagging) for image file formats

Video playback in detail

Video Library

The Video Library, one of the Kodi metadata databases, is a key feature of XBMC/Kodi. It allows the organization of video content by information associated with the video files (e.g. movies and recorded TV Shows) themselves. This information can be obtained in various ways, like through scrapers (i.e. web scraping sites like TheMovieDB, TheTVDB, etc.), and nfo files. Automatically downloading and displaying movie posters and fan art backdrops as background wallpapers. The Library view allows users to browse their video content by categories; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.

Video player

XBMC/Kodi uses a video-player 'core' for video-playback called "DVDPlayer". This in-house developed cross-platform media player was originally designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). DVDPlayer is based on FFmpeg and today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images or DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) images (even directly from uncompressed RAR and ZIP archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.

Audio playback in detail

Music Library

The Music Library, one of the XBMC/Kodi metadata databases, is another key feature of XBMC/Kodi. It allows the organization of a music collection to allow searching, and creating smart playlists by information stored in music file ID meta tags, like title, artist, album, production year, genre, and popularity. Automatically downloading and displaying album covers and fan art backdrops as background wallpapers.

Audio player cores

For music playback, Kodi includes its own in-house developed audio-player, "PAPlayer" (which stands for "Psycho-Acoustic Audio Player"), and this audio-player core's most notable features are on-the-fly resampling of the audio frequency, gapless playback, crossfading, ReplayGain, cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support. The "PAPlayer" audio-player handles a very large variety of audio file-formats, and it also supports most different tagging standards. XBMC/Kodi also have support for most popular karaoke computer file formats, and is able to play and display timed song lyrics graphics/text from CD+G, LRC, and KAR files.

Digital picture/image display in detail

XBMC/Kodi handles all common digital picture/image formats with the options of panning/zooming and slideshow with "Ken Burns Effect", with the use of CxImage open source library code. XBMC/Kodi can also handle CBZ (ZIP) and CBR (RAR) comic book archive files, this feature lets users view/read, browse and zoom the pictures of comics pages these contain without uncompressing them first. Viewing CBR files in Kodi 18 Leia for Windows and upwards will require you to install the RAR Support add-on.

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