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{{Mininav|[[Kodi Foundation]]}}
{{Infobox software
 | logo                 = [[File:Logo-transparent bare 256px.png|220px]]
 | screenshot           = [[File:Kodi.gif|300px|link=|Confluence skin home screen]]
 | caption              = [[Confluence]] skin home screen
 | developer            = [[Kodi Foundation]]
 | released             = June 29, 2004
 | Stable release       = {{Current version}}
 | Preview release      = {{Future_version}}
 | programming language = ''Core:'' C++<br />''Add-ons:'' Python v3
 | operating system     = [[Windows]], [[Mac OS X|macOS]], [[Linux]], [[Android]], [[iOS]]/[[tvOS]], [[BSD]]
 | platform             = [[wikipedia:x86|x86]], [[wikipedia:ARM architecture family|ARM]]
 | language             = 72 languages<ref name="weblate_lang_list" />
 | status               = Active
 | license              = [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL-2.0-or-later]<ref name="licenses-dir_readme" />
 | website              = [https://kodi.tv/ kodi.tv]
}}
'''Kodi'''® (formerly known as <span style="font-weight: 600;">XBMC</span> or <span style="font-weight: 600;">Xbox Media Center</span>) is an award-winning, free and open source media player/entertainment hub application that runs on an exhaustive list of computers, mobile devices and HTPCs (Home theater PCs) which natively use no less than seven (7) different operating systems. It follows a [[wikipedia:10-foot user interface|10-foot user interface]] design specification which targets usage as a media player in a living room setting—or any other space where groups of people consume media without having someone seated near the player controls—using a handheld remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from local file storage, optical discs, the local network or the internet using only a few buttons. The Kodi project is managed by the non-profit '''[[Kodi Foundation]]''' and developed by volunteers located around the world. As of Summer 2022, more than 1,600 software developers have contributed to Kodi (in the form of 111,800+ individual changes to the codebase, which opened in 2003),<ref name="openhub" /> with roughly 60 core developers whose regular participation helps to steer it. Now, thanks to the generosity and dedication of over [[Translations|200 volunteer translators]], Kodi is available in 72 languages and useful no matter which continent you're on.

Kodi® ''(then called "Xbox Media Center")'' was originally created as a media center application for the first-generation Xbox game console (no longer supported) but is now officially available as a native application for [[Android]], [[BSD]], [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X|macOS]], [[iOS]]/[[tvOS]], and [[Windows]] operating systems, running on most common processor architectures.



== Introduction ==
=== Overview of features ===
:{{Main|Features and supported formats}}
{{#lst:Features_and_supported_formats|intro}}


=== Add-ons ===
:{{Main|Add-ons}}
{{#lst:Add-ons|intro}}

For additional information about specific add-ons, see the '''[[:Category:All add-ons|All add-ons]]''' category.


=== Video demos ===
Check out this excellent introduction video (1m 36s) by Lifehacker:<ref name="lifehacker" /><br />
::{{YouTube|T970YM3w1LY}}

A Kodi beginners guide (13m 27s) by forum user fredphoesh:<ref name="fredphoesh" /><br />
::{{YouTube|2O4fCGrwrqw}}


=== Language support ===
{{See|Language portal}}
Kodi includes full support for many different languages by default. Kodi's structure is such that if the language is not available, or not up-to-date, it can be created by signing up at the [https://kodi.weblate.cloud/accounts/register/ Kodi Translations Project].

Currently the existing supported languages are: Acadian French, Afrikaans, Albanian, American English, Amharic, Argentinian Spanish, Armenian, Asturian, Australian English, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, European Portuguese, Faroese, Finnish, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayam, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Metropolitan French, Mexican Spanish, Mongolian, New Zealand English, Norwegian, Ossetian, Peninsular Arabic, Peninsular Spanish, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Silesian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese and Welsh.



== Hardware requirements ==
:{{Main|Supported hardware}}
{{#lst:Supported hardware|intro}}



== Official versions ==
{{See|Releases}}
Full featured versions of Kodi are available on a number of operating system platforms. Team Kodi strives to keep a consistent feature set and include the full Kodi experience for all versions, even those on low-powered devices.


=== Windows ===
:{{Main|Windows}}
''Kodi for Windows'' runs natively on Windows Vista and higher. It is a 32-bit application but runs on 64-bit Windows and hardware as well, however it is not yet optimized for that architecture so there is no performance gain when running on 64-bit Windows. 1080p playback can be achieved on Windows based computers either via software decoding on the CPU if it's powerful enough, or by hardware accelerated video decoding.


=== Android ===
:{{Main|Android}}
''Kodi for Android'' is a full port of the complete Kodi application to Google's Android operating-system, was first announced and its source code released publicly on 13 June 2012. This is a full port of Kodi's C++ and C source code with all its dependencies to Android with a build-system that was designed to handle multiple processor architectures, like ARM, MIPS, and x86 with the Android NDK (Native Development Kit for Android) without using a single line of Java, and the Kodi.APK is running natively under Android as a Native Activity application. 


=== iOS ===
:{{Main|iOS}}
''Kodi for iOS'', which is a full port of Kodi to Apple's [[iOS]] operating-system, was first announced and released publicly on 20 January 2011. It supports both 720p and 1080p hardware accelerated video decoding of H.264 videos, and is compatible several Apple's [[IOS|iDevice]]s that uses Apple A4 or higher SoC processors with a jailbroken iOS operating-system.


=== Mac ===
:{{Main|Mac OS X}}
''Kodi for Mac'' runs natively on [[Mac OS X]] with Intel processors with hardware video decoding for H.264.


=== Linux ===
:{{Main|Linux}}
''Kodi for Linux'' is primarily developed for Ubuntu Linux. Third-party packages for most other Linux distributions are however available, and it is also possible to compile Kodi from scratch for any Linux distribution as long as the pre-required dependency libraries are installed first. 



== Third-party forks and derivative work of Kodi ==
:{{Main|Forks}}



== History ==
:{{Main|History of Kodi}}



== Kodi Foundation ==
:{{Main|Kodi Foundation}}
{{#lst:Kodi Foundation|intro}}



== Awards ==
{{See|SourceForge Community Choice Awards}}
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 ! scope="row" rowspan="23" style="font-size: 1.4rem; font-weight: 700;" | [[File:SourceForge Community Choice Award.png|256px|frameless|link=]]<br />[[wikipedia:SourceForge|SourceForge]]<br />Community Choice Awards
 | scope="row" rowspan="2" class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 1.3rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | [https://sourceforge.net/blog/cca06/ 2006]
 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Project for Gamers
 | style="background-color: Green; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Winner
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Project for Multimedia
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 | rowspan="6" class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 1.3rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | [https://sourceforge.net/blog/cca07/ 2007]
 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best User Support
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Project for Gamers
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
 |-
 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Project for Multimedia
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
 |-
 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Technical Design
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Most Collaborative Project
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Overall Project
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
 |-
 | rowspan="7" class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 1.05rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | [https://sourceforge.net/blog/cca08/ <span style="font-size: 1.3rem;">2008</span>]<br />''([https://sourceforge.net/blog/cca08-finalists/ Finalists])''
 | class="plainlinks" style="font-weight: 600;" | <span style="font-size: 1.1rem;">Best Project for Gamers</span><ref group="awards" name="scca_2008">Team XBMC. 2008. [https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-wins-another-sourceforge-community-choice-award/ &ldquo;XBMC wins another SourceForge Community Choice Award.&rdquo;] ''Kodi News.'' July 29, 2008.</ref>
 | style="background-color: Green; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Winner
 |-
 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Overall Project
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Project for Multimedia
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Most Likely to Be the Next Billion Dollar Acquisition
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Most Likely to Change the World
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Most Likely to Be Ambiguously and<br />Baselessly Accused of Patent Violation
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
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 | style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Most Likely to Get Users Sued by Anachronistic<br />Industry Associations Defending Dead Business Models
 | style="background-color: Wheat; color: #000; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Finalist
 |-
 | rowspan="8" class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 1.05rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514203615if_/http://sourceforge.net/blog/cca09/winners/ <span style="font-size: 1.3rem;">2009</span>]<br />''([https://web.archive.org/web/20090831092244if_/http://web.sourceforge.com:80/investor-news/3/sourceforge-announces-finalists-fourth-annual-community-choice-awards Finalists])''
 | rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Overall Project
 | style="background-color: RoyalBlue; border-bottom: none; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;" | Sixth&nbsp;Place
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 | style="background-color: RoyalBlue; border-top: none; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;" | 1,991/22,313 votes (9%)
 |-
 | rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Visual Design
 | style="background-color: LightSlateGrey; border-bottom: none; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;" | Second&nbsp;Place
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 | style="background-color: LightSlateGrey; border-top: none; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;" | 3,311/14,541 votes (23%)
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 | rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Project for Multimedia
 | style="background-color: DarkGoldenRod; border-bottom: none; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;" | Third&nbsp;Place
 |-
 | style="background-color: DarkGoldenRod; border-top: none; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;" | 2,871/15,922 votes (10%)
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 | rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything
 | style="background-color: DarkGoldenRod; border-bottom: none; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;" | Third&nbsp;Place
 |-
 | style="background-color: DarkGoldenRod; border-top: none; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;" | 2,036/19,229 votes (11%)
 |-
 ! scope="row" rowspan="2" class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 1.4rem; font-weight: 700;" | [[File:MacInformerEditorsPickBadge.png|frameless|link=]]<br />[https://macdownload.informer.com/ Mac Informer]<br />Editor's Pick Awards
 | rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.3rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | 2013
 | rowspan="2" style="font-weight: 600;" | <span style="font-size: 1.1rem;">Best Media Player</span><ref group="awards" name="macinformer">Informer Technologies, Inc. 2013. [https://macdownload.informer.com/xbmc/awards/ &ldquo;XBMC: Awards.&rdquo;] ''Mac Informer.'' August 1, 2013.</ref>
 | style="background-color: Green; color: #fff; border-bottom: 0; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" | Winner
 |-
 | class="plainlinks" style="background-color: Green; border-top: 0; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" | Editor rating: EXCELLENT<br /><span style="padding-left: 4.25em;">5/5 (100%)</span><ref group="awards" name="mi_archive">Fernández, José. 2013. (Senior Editor, Informer Technologies, Inc.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140409150429if_/http://macdownload.informer.com:80/xbmc/ &ldquo;Editorial review: XBMC for Mac.&rdquo;] ''Mac Informer.'' August 1, 2013. Archived by the Wayback Machine from the [https://macdownload.informer.com/xbmc/ original] on April 9, 2014. &lsquo;''In short, XBMC is still my favorite HTPC app. It looks great, works awesome and it has never caused a problem for me.''&rsquo;</ref>
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 ! scope="row" style="font-size: 1.4rem; font-weight: 700;" | [[wikipedia:Lifehacker|Lifehacker Australia]]<br />Community Choice Awards
 | style="font-size: 1.3rem; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | 2014
 | style="font-weight: 600;" | <span style="font-size: 1.1rem;">Best Media Player</span><ref name="lifehacker" />
 | style="background-color: Green; color: #fff; font-size: 1.2rem; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" | Winner
 |-
 | colspan="4" class="plainlinks" style="background-color: #fff; border: hidden; border-top: 4px solid #a2a9b1;" | <references group="awards" />
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== Programming and developing ==
:{{Main|Development}}
Kodi is a non-profit and free software community driven open-source software project that is developed only by volunteers in their spare time without any monetary gain. The team of developers leading the development of Kodi, ''&ldquo;[[Archive:Team Kodi|Team Kodi]]&rdquo;'', encourage anyone and everyone to submit their own source code patches for new features and functions, improve existing ones, or fix bugs to the Kodi project.

Kodi's source code for all its supported platforms is made publicly available by [[Archive:Team Kodi|Team Kodi]] under the open source GNU General Public License, Version 2 (or later) license. The group maintains a [https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc public Git repository] on GitHub for this source code.



== References ==
<references>
<ref name="weblate_lang_list">[https://kodi.weblate.cloud/languages/ Languages.] ''Kodi Weblate.'' Accessed on August 18, 2022.</ref>
<ref name="licenses-dir_readme">"[https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/LICENSES/README.md Kodi's licensing rules]." ''[https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc xbmc/xbmc] on GitHub.'' Accessed on August 18, 2022.</ref>
<ref name="openhub">[https://www.openhub.net/p/kodi "The Kodi Open Source Project."] ''[https://www.openhub.net/ Black Duck Open Hub], part of Synopsys.'' Accessed on August 18, 2022.</ref>
<ref name="lifehacker">Whitson, Gordon. 2012. [https://lifehacker.com/create-a-kickass-seamless-play-everything-media-cente-5900626 &ldquo;Create a Kickass, Seamless, Play-Everything Media Center: The Complete Guide.&rdquo;] ''Lifehacker Australia.'' April 10, 2012.</ref>
<ref name="fredphoesh">[https://forum.kodi.tv/member.php?action=profile&uid=66118 Profile of fredphoesh.] ''Kodi Community Forum.'' May 21, 2012.</ref>
</references>



== Further reading ==
* '''[https://kodi.tv/ Official Website]'''
* [[wikipedia:Kodi (software)|'''Kodi''']] on English Wikipedia



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