Kodi related projects and sites

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Official XBMC community sites/pages

• XBMC website - http://xbmc.org
• Download - http://xbmc.org/download/
• Forums- http://forum.xbmc.org - XBMC forums for help and support for both end-users, developers, skinners and graphics-designers
• IRC - #xbmc chat channel on irc.freenode.org
• Bug reporting - http://trac.xbmc.org
• Git repo - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc - source code
• Donate - http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/
• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/XBMC
• Google+ - http://plus.google.com/102926840947534443602/posts
• Twitter - http://twitter.com/xbmc
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/teamxbmc

Affiliated XBMC community sites/pages

• http://xbmc4xbox.org - For continued support of XBMC for Xbox
• Xbox-Scene.com's XBMC-community-forums - help and support forum

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)
  

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):

• 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