Kodi (software) | Wikipedia audio article

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00:02:49 1 Overview
00:05:33 1.1 Hardware requirements
00:07:50 1.2 Language support
00:09:03 2 Core features
00:09:12 2.1 Live TV with EPG and PVR/DVR frontend
00:11:38 2.2 Video playback
00:11:47 2.2.1 Video Library
00:12:40 2.2.2 Video player cores
00:13:50 2.3 Audio playback
00:13:59 2.3.1 Music Library
00:14:36 2.3.2 Audio player cores
00:15:30 2.4 Digital picture/image display
00:16:07 2.5 Games Manager and game console emulators
00:17:23 2.5.1 RetroPlayer
00:18:27 2.6 Audio, video, and pictures media formats
00:20:05 2.6.1 Format support
00:24:35 2.7 Addons Manager, addons and plugins
00:26:37 2.7.1 Plugins and scripts
00:27:55 2.7.2 Metadata extraction and web scrapers
00:29:32 2.8 Skins and themes
00:31:30 2.9 Web Interfaces
00:32:13 2.10 Application launcher
00:32:53 3 Mobile remotes and second screen apps
00:34:43 4 Official versions
00:36:01 4.1 Kodibuntu
00:37:58 4.2 Native applications
00:43:11 4.3 Xbox (first-generation)
00:45:12 4.4 Xbox One
00:45:41 5 Commercial systems
00:47:09 5.1 Computer hardware
00:51:41 5.2 Dedicated devices
00:54:11 6 Derivatives and forks
00:57:23 7 Programming and developing
00:58:31 7.1 Architecture
01:02:20 7.1.1 Portability
01:04:17 7.2 Python scripts as plugins and addons (widgets and gadgets)
01:04:57 7.3 Application programming interface (API)
01:05:47 7.4 GUI-engine and skinning (themes)
01:06:37 8 Software limitations
01:07:43 9 Reception
01:08:35 10 History
01:13:13 10.1 Releases
01:13:35 11 Organization and licensing
01:14:31 12 Use for illegal streaming
01:17:37 13 See also



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Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with a software 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the Internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage media.It is a multi-platform home-theater PC (HTPC) application. Kodi is highly customizable: a variety of skins can change its appearance, and various plug-ins allow users to access streaming media content via online services such as Amazon Prime Instant Video, Crackle, Pandora Internet Radio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and YouTube. The later versions also have a personal video-recorder (PVR) graphical front end for receiving live television with electronic program guide (EPG) and high-definition digital video recorder (DVR) support.The software was created as an independently developed homebrew media player application named Xbox Media Center (abbreviated as XBMC) for the first-generation Xbox game console, and was later made available under the name XBMC as a native application for Android, Linux, BSD, macOS, iOS/tvOS, and Microsoft Windows-based operating systems.Because of its open source and cross-platform nature, with its core code written in C++, modified versions of Kodi-XBMC together with a JeOS have been used as a software appliance suite or software framework in a variety of devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, digital signage, hotel television systems, network connected media players and embedded systems based on armhf platform like Raspberry Pi. Derivative applications such as MediaPortal and Plex have been spun off from XBMC or Kodi, as well as Just enough operating systems like OpenELEC and LibreELEC.Kodi has attracted negative attention due to the availability of third-party plug-ins for the software that facilitate unauthorized access to copyrighted media content, as well as "fully loaded" digital media players that are pre-loaded with such a ..