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{{Infobox software
| name = XBMC Media Center
| logo                 = [[File:Logo-transparent bare 256px.png|220px]]
| logo = [[File:XBMC logo.png|200px]]
| screenshot           = [[File:Kodi.gif|300px|link=|Confluence skin home screen]]
| screenshot = [[File:XBMC home.png|300px]]
| caption             = [[Confluence]] skin home screen
| caption = XBMC Media Center Home Screen
| developer           = [[Kodi Foundation]]
| developer = [[Team XBMC]]
| released            = June 29, 2004
| Stable release = 10.1 (Dharma)
| Stable release       = {{Current version}}
| Preview release = 11.0 (Eden)
| Preview release     = {{Future_version}}
| programming language = C++ core, with Python scripts as add-ons from 3rd parties
| programming language = ''Core:'' C++<br />''Add-ons:'' Python v3
| operating system = Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows, iOS
| operating system     = [[Windows]], [[Mac OS X|macOS]], [[Linux]], [[Android]], [[iOS]]/[[tvOS]], [[BSD]]
| platform =  [[w:ARM architecture|ARM]], [[w:PowerPC|PPC (PowerPC)]], [[w:x86 architecture|x86]]
| platform            = [[wikipedia:x86|x86]], [[wikipedia:ARM architecture family|ARM]]
| status = Active
| language            = 72 languages<ref name="weblate_lang_list" />
| released = 2003
| status              = Active
| language = 40+ languages to date
| license             = [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL-2.0-or-later]<ref name="licenses-dir_readme" />
| license = GPLv2 or later
| website             = [https://kodi.tv/ kodi.tv]
| website = http://xbmc.org
}}
}}
'''XBMC Media Center''' (formerly '''[[w:Xbox|Xbox]] Media Center''') is an award winning free and open source cross-platform entertainment hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software with a [[10-foot user interface]] designed to be a media player for the living-room TV using a remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons. The XBMC project is managed by the non-profit '''XBMC Foundation''', and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 60 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 40 languages.  
'''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.


Currently XBMC 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: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive. XBMC 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.
== Introduction ==
=== Overview of features ===
:{{Main|Features and supported formats}}
{{#lst:Features_and_supported_formats|intro}}


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


The XBMC "''[[Add-on Manager]]''" has a growing list of community driven add-ons/plug-ins/extensions for online content like [[Add-on:YouTube|YouTube]], [[Add-on:Hulu|Hulu]], [[Add-on:Grooveshark|Grooveshark]], [[Add-on:Pandora Radio|Pandora Radio]], as well and [[:Category:Skins|themes (skins)]] and more available 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 if they like.
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}}


XBMC was originally created as a media center application for the first-generation Xbox game console but is now, since 2010, officially available as a native application for [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], [[iOS]] ([[iDevice]]s and [[Apple TV (iOS)|Apple TV 2/3]]), and [[Microsoft Windows]] operating systems, running on most common processor architectures.
A Kodi beginners guide (13m 27s) by forum user fredphoesh:<ref name="fredphoesh" /><br />
::{{YouTube|2O4fCGrwrqw}}


==History==
=== Language support ===
{{See|History of XBMC}}
{{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].


==XBMC Foundation==
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.
{{see also|Team XBMC}}
The "''XBMC Foundation''", tax-exempt registered non-profit organization behind the XBMC project, is legally represented by the [[w:Software Freedom Law Center|SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center)]], which assists XBMC project and its developers legal matters such as copyright, trademark, and branding questions, as well as economic issues such as handling donations and sponsors that help the project with expenses for dedicated hosting service, and activities such as going to trade fairs and computer expos to tech demo XBMC, meeting with potential new developers, gain publicity to attract additional users, and more.


==Overview of features==
== Hardware requirements ==
{{main|Features and supported codecs}}
:{{Main|Supported hardware}}
XBMC supports most common audio, video, and image formats, playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and third-party plugins. It is network-capable (internet and LAN shares).
{{#lst:Supported hardware|intro}}


Through its [[add-on]] system, which is based on the Python programming language, XBMC is expandable via add-ons that include features such as television program guides, [[Add-on:YouTube|YouTube]], [[Add-on:Hulu|Hulu]], [[Add-on:Veoh|Veoh]], online movie trailer support, and [[Add-on:Pandora Radio|Pandora Radio]] and Podcast streaming. XBMC also functions as a gaming platform by allowing users to play mini-games developed with Python, on any operating system.
== 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.


===Language support===
=== Windows ===
XBMC includes full support for many different languages by default. XBMC's structure is such that if the language is not available, or not up-to-date, it can be made by editing simple strings in an XML-file, which can then be submitted to XBMC's project management and bug tracking system tool for use by others. Currently the existing supported languages are Afrikaans, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, American English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.
:{{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.


==Hardware requirements==
=== Android ===
XBMC has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a 3D capable GPU graphics hardware controller for all rendering. Powerful 3D GPU chips are common today in most modern computers, and even some set-top boxes and XBMC is designed to otherwise be resource efficient.  It runs well on what (by Intel Atom standards) are relatively underpowered OpenGL 1.3 (with GLSL support), OpenGL ES 2.0 or Direct3D (DirectX) 9.0 capable systems that are IA-32/x86, x86-64, ARM, or PowerPC (G4 or later) CPU based.
:{{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.  


When software decoding of a Full HD 1080p high-definition video is performed by the system CPU, a dual-core 2 GHz or better CPU is required in order to allow for perfectly smooth playback without dropping frames or giving playback a jerky appearance. XBMC can however offload most of the video decoding process onto GPU graphics hardware controller that supports one of the following types of hardware-accelerated video decoding: Intel's VAAPI, Nvidia's VDPAU, AMD's XvBA, Microsoft's DXVA, Apple's VDADecoder/VideoToolBox, OpenMAX, and Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator. By taking advantage of such hardware-accelerated video decoding, XBMC can run well on most inexpensive, low-power systems which contain a modern GPU.
=== 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.


==Official Team-XBMC ports of XBMC==
=== Mac ===
{{See also|Releases}}
:{{Main|Mac OS X}}
Through the processing power of modern computer hardware (by CPU or by hardware video decoding), XBMC is able to decode high-definition video up to and beyond 1080p resolutions, bypassing hardware limitations of the original (now discontinued) Xbox version of XBMC.
''Kodi for Mac'' runs natively on [[Mac OS X]] with Intel processors with hardware video decoding for H.264.


However in the latest official release of XBMC there is hardware accelerated video decoding for DXVA, VDPAU, VAAPI, VDA, and VTB GPU hardware video decoding, as well as hardware accelerated video decoding via ARM NEON, OpenMAX, and Broadcom Crystal HD.
=== 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.  


;XBMC Live
== Third-party forks and derivative work of Kodi ==
:[[XBMC Live]] is a free Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with XBMC for Linux already installed and pre-configured, providing a complete packaged media center software suite for all IA-32/x86-based personal computers. XBMC Live uses XBMC Media Center for all media playback and is implemented as a bootable Live CD primarily designed for bare-metal installations to achieve instant on type boot. As of version 11.0 (Eden) XBMC Live will be based on [[w:Lubuntu|Lubuntu]] instead of Ubuntu Desktop, (this is because Lubuntu is "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient" than the standard Ubuntu distribution).
:{{Main|Forks}}


;XBMC for iOS
== History ==
:''[[iOS FAQ|XBMC for iOS]]'', which is a full port of XBMC 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 [[iDevice]]'s and [[Apple TV (iOS)|Apple TVs (black)]] that uses Apple A4 or Apple A5 (ARM-based) SoC processors with a jailbroken iOS operating-system.
:{{Main|History of Kodi}}


;XBMC for Linux
== Kodi Foundation ==
:''XBMC 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 XBMC Media Center from scratch for any Linux distribution as long as the prerequired dependency libraries are installed first.  Hardware video decoding is achieved via the VDPAU API on Nvidia's GPUs, and via the VAAPI API for AMD/ATI Radeon, S3 Graphics, and Intel's newer Integrated Graphics Processors, as well as hardware accelerated video decoding via OpenMAX, ARM NEON, and Broadcom Crystal HD on systems with supporting hardware.
:{{Main|Kodi Foundation}}
{{#lst:Kodi Foundation|intro}}


;XBMC for Mac
== Awards ==
:''XBMC for Mac'' runs natively on [[Mac OS X]], as well as on the [[Apple TV 1]]. 1080p playback can be achieved on Apple computers either via software decoding on the CPU if it is powerful enough, or by hardware accelerated video decoding via Apple's VDA API or [[Broadcom Crystal HD]].
{{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
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| style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Project for Multimedia
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| style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Technical Design
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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
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| 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
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| style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Overall Project
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| style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4;" | Best Project for Multimedia
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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
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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
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| 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])''
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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%)
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| rowspan="2" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 600;" | Best Visual Design
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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
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| 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
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| style="background-color: DarkGoldenRod; border-top: none; color: #fff; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;" | 2,036/19,229 votes (11%)
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! 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
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| 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
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| 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" />
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|-
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:1080p playback on the first-generation Apple TV (a.k.a. "ATV1") can only be achieved by hardware accelerated video decoding via Broadcom Crystal HD, the user must replace the ATV's internal WiFi adapter with a Broadcom Crystal HD PCI Express Mini (mini-PCIe) card in order to activate this functionality.
== 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.


;XBMC for Windows
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.
:''XBMC for Windows'' runs natively on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, 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.


:Hardware video decoding via DirectX Video Acceleration is now supported although this enhancement currently only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7 due to the author's currently using the DXVA 2.0 API which is not supported in Windows XP.
== 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>


==Commercial XBMC systems==
== Further reading ==
{{main|Commercial XBMC systems}}
* '''[https://kodi.tv/ Official Website]'''
{{#lst:Commercial XBMC systems|intro}}
* [[wikipedia:Kodi (software)|'''Kodi''']] on English Wikipedia


==Third-party forks and derivative work of XBMC==
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{{main|Third-party forks and derivatives}}
{{#lst:Third-party forks and derivatives|intro}}


==Awards==
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XBMC won two [[w:SourceForge|SourceForge]] 2006 Community Choice Awards.[http://sourceforge.net/blog/cca06/] In the 2007 Community Choice Awards, XBMC was nominated finalist in six categories.[http://sourceforge.net/blog/cca07/] Also in the 2008 Community Choice Awards XBMC won an award for Best Project for Gamers.[http://sourceforge.net/blog/cca08/]
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==Programming and developing==
[[Category:Kodi]]
{{main|XBMC development}}
[[Category:Kodi Foundation]]
XBMC 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 XBMC, "''Team-XBMC''", encourage anyone and everyone to submit their own source code patches for new features and functions, improve existing ones, or fix bugs to the XBMC project.
 
XBMC's source code for all its supported platforms is made publicly available by Team XBMC under the open source GNU General Public License Version 2 license. The group currently maintains a Git [https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc repository] for this source code.
 
 
[[Category:XBMC|*]]
[[Category:Team-XBMC]]

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Kodi
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Developer(s) Kodi Foundation
Initial release June 29, 2004
Stable release Kodi v20.5 Nexus
Preview release Kodi v21 Omega
Development status Active
Written in Core: C++
Add-ons: Python v3
OS Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS/tvOS, BSD
Platform x86, ARM
Available in 72 languages[1]
License GPL-2.0-or-later[2]
Website kodi.tv

Kodi® (formerly known as XBMC or Xbox Media Center) 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 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),[3] with roughly 60 core developers whose regular participation helps to steer it. Now, thanks to the generosity and dedication of over 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, macOS, iOS/tvOS, and Windows operating systems, running on most common processor architectures.

Introduction

Overview of features

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.

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.

For additional information about specific add-ons, see the All add-ons category.

Video demos

Check out this excellent introduction video (1m 36s) by Lifehacker:[4]

A Kodi beginners guide (13m 27s) by forum user fredphoesh:[5]

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 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

Kodi is officially supported on a number of operating systems and hardware devices that are designed to be connected directly to a TV. Kodi runs well on what are relatively "underpowered" systems, thanks to hardware video decoding being common on nearly all supported platforms. These requirements don't include what might be required for some "advanced" features, such as PVR, which might require additional hardware.

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

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

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

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 iDevices that uses Apple A4 or higher SoC processors with a jailbroken iOS operating-system.

Mac

Kodi for Mac runs natively on Mac OS X with Intel processors with hardware video decoding for H.264.

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

History

Kodi Foundation

The "Kodi Foundation" is the non-profit organization that oversees the Kodi project and is registered in the US.

Awards

See: SourceForge Community Choice Awards
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Contest Year Award Result
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SourceForge
Community Choice Awards
Best Project for Gamers Winner
Best Project for Multimedia Winner
Best User Support Finalist
Best Project for Gamers Finalist
Best Project for Multimedia Finalist
Best Technical Design Finalist
Most Collaborative Project Finalist
Best Overall Project Finalist
Winner
Best Overall Project Finalist
Best Project for Multimedia Finalist
Most Likely to Be the Next Billion Dollar Acquisition Finalist
Most Likely to Change the World Finalist
Most Likely to Be Ambiguously and
Baselessly Accused of Patent Violation
Finalist
Most Likely to Get Users Sued by Anachronistic
Industry Associations Defending Dead Business Models
Finalist
Best Overall Project Sixth Place
1,991/22,313 votes (9%)
Best Visual Design Second Place
3,311/14,541 votes (23%)
Best Project for Multimedia Third Place
2,871/15,922 votes (10%)
Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything Third Place
2,036/19,229 votes (11%)
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Mac Informer
Editor's Pick Awards
2013 Best Media Player[awards 2] Winner
Lifehacker Australia
Community Choice Awards
2014 Best Media Player[4] Winner

Programming and developing

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, Team Kodi, 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 Team Kodi under the open source GNU General Public License, Version 2 (or later) license. The group maintains a public Git repository on GitHub for this source code.

References

  1. Languages. Kodi Weblate. Accessed on August 18, 2022.
  2. "Kodi's licensing rules." xbmc/xbmc on GitHub. Accessed on August 18, 2022.
  3. "The Kodi Open Source Project." Black Duck Open Hub, part of Synopsys. Accessed on August 18, 2022.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Whitson, Gordon. 2012. “Create a Kickass, Seamless, Play-Everything Media Center: The Complete Guide.” Lifehacker Australia. April 10, 2012.
  5. Profile of fredphoesh. Kodi Community Forum. May 21, 2012.

Further reading