Alternatives to Boxee for all platforms with any license

Kodi

Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. Kodi is designed to be the perfect...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet BSD iPad Raspberry Pi Fire TV
Media Streaming Support AirPlay TV Shows meta data support Video library ... Automatic subtitles download Built-in Media converter Built-in subtitle search DNLA Server Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for IPTV Jailbreak required Media library Music Library Music Player Support for subtitles TV Shows Add a feature

1256 Like
Plex

Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple TV Daydream Kindle Fire Android TV Kodi Roku
Play local content Media sharing Media Transcoding Media Streaming ... Dedicated Server Hosting DNLA Server Local server Media Streaming Offline sync of media files Remote File Access Remote Media Access Stream audio Add a feature

736 Like
Splash

The smoothest Video Player you have ever seen. (Now it's 100% free without ads).

Free Windows
Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration Motion smoothing Support for Intel Quick Sync acceleration Add a feature

70 Like
OpenELEC

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer...

Free Open Source Linux Raspberry Pi
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for IPTV Music Player Operating system ... TV Shows Add a feature

50 Like
MediaPortal

MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and...

Free Open Source Windows
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Internet Radio Music Player Skinnable Add a feature

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Squire

Squire is a media center to stream movies and shows from torrents or local files. It’s an always-running menu bar app. The brain where all the local video files or...

Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Apple TV
Stream video to Apple TV Add a feature

18 Like
Kantaris

Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (VLC Media Player) and Bass audio library.
- Discontinued Last Update: 2013-04-25. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/kantaris/
- Warning Sourceforge has detected malware in Kantaris builds.
Free Open Source Windows
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for subtitles Add a feature

15 Like
Moovida

Moovida is transforming the way consumers experience digital entertainment media. In a world where the promise of on-demand media has yet to be realized, Moovida...
- Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.1.1, released in October 2011, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.
Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

22 Like
VidOn Server

Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.

Free Windows
TV Shows Add a feature

6 Like
Sequential

Sequential is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and...
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.1.2, released in January 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Mac
No features added Add a feature

10 Like
MythTV

MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. With its plugin architecture, MythTV can be...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
DVR Add a feature

76 Like
Enna

Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user...
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, v0.4.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Linux
Music Player Add a feature

6 Like
DesktopBrowser

Web based file explorer, runs locally on your browser, designed for media desktops.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Add a feature

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