Kodi related projects and sites

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Official XBMC community sites/pages

• The official XBMC website.
• The XBMC forums offers help and support for both end-users, developers, skinners and graphics-designers (English only!).
• IRC channel: #XBMC (on Freenode network), official support/chat on IRC (English only!).
• XBMC @ SourceForge.NET, the Official XBMC Project page (English only!).

Affiliated XBMC community sites/pages

• Xbox-Scene.com's XBMC-community-forums, unofficial/independent XBMC help and support forum (English only!).

Local XBMC community sites/pages

• XBMC Magazine (www.xbmc.fr), french XBMC fan-site and community-forums (French only)
  
• XBMC Russia (www.xbmc.ru), russian XBMC fan-site and community-forums (Russian only)
  
• XBMC Netherlands (www.xbmcfreak.nl), Dutch XBMC fan-site and community-forums (Mainly Dutch)
  
• XBMCNerds (www.xbmcnerds.com), German XBMC fan-site and community-forums (German only)
  

Unofficial XBMC community sites/pages

We don't link to the two old Xbox skin sites here because they are mostly outdated and unmaintained to the degree where they now spread malware :/

• XBMC News Blog (http://xbmc.blogspot.com), unofficial/independent fan-site with XBMC news (English). No updates since Dec 2007.

Indirectly XBMC related projects

Open source projects that XBMC depends on (if you help/support or contribute these projects then you indirectly help/support XBMC):

• MPlayer - XBMC A/V playback core is based upon the MPlayer for Linux Project
• FFmpeg - XBMC uses FFmpeg codec suite to decode and view DivX, JPG, etc.
• libdvdnav - XBMC uses libdvdnav from this project to display/navigate DVD-Video menus
• libCDIO - XBMC uses this library to read ISO 9660, CDDA and parse CD/DVD images
• libmpeg2 - XBMC uses the libmpeg2 codec library to decode MPEG 1/2 & VOB
• libvorbis - XBMC uses the libvorbis codec library to decode OGG audio
• libmad - XBMC uses the libmad codec library to decode MP3 audio
• libdca (formaly libdts) - XBMC used the libdca codec library to decode DTS audio in software
• xiph - XBMC uses the xpih codec library to decode Theora Video (VP3)
• MikMod - XBMC uses this library from this project to playback Tracker Mod's

• LZO - XBMC uses the LZO library to compress/decompress XBMC skin textures
• FiBidi - XBMC uses FriBidi Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm library to flip sibtitles
• FileZilla - XBMC uses FileZilla FTP server from this project
• Python - XBMC has a limited ported version of the Python framework for scripts