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 companion to a home theater PC - it supports an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful (and highly "skinnable") interface, Kodi feels very natural to use from the couch.
Currently 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.
• Top positive commentalmost 4 years ago • 0 replies
it's good to use if you love movies and watching shows this is for you. kodi is still rockin!
Show entire comment ▾
2
ushabuntu
★
★
★
★
★
• Top positive commentabout 4 years ago • 0 replies
The best of the best.
Powerful, great looking, and gets the job done very well. A little bit of learning curve, but unstoppable for powerusers.
Show entire comment ▾
2
n-----
★
★
★
★
★
• Top negative commentover 4 years ago • 0 replies
What used to be the greatest mediacenter for the first XBOX has turned into a nightmare. We all know the pros: it is free and not windows mediacenter.
Cons?
-Requires more steps to enable "unknown sources" than Android -Is slowly closing down: bands addons, implements source verfication and so on..let's face it they what to monetize -The UX has been "reworked" by insane people, e.g. the Systemsetting have cute useless biiiig icons now but you won't be able to find anything. -Adding an AddOn from Zip from a remote source takes about 500% longer than before. -For over 10 years now people have been requesting basic functionality like adding an IPCamera stream...still not done
I guarantee it: there will be a payed subscription model before there will be an IP camera plugin.
Time to fork.
Show entire comment ▾
6
NasherCurrao
★
★
★
★
★
• Positive comment • 3 months ago • 0 replies
Easy to configure
Show entire comment ▾
0
Comment • 6 months ago • 0 replies
Free
Show entire comment ▾
0
rsbrux
Comment • 8 months ago • 0 replies
Kodi is listed as an alternative to DVBviewer and MediaPortal, but it isn't really. Despite the URL "kodi.tv" it has no TV backend of its own and is dependent on a TV service like DVBviewer or MediaPortal to receive TV.
Show entire comment ▾
0
arturoganesyan
★
★
★
★
★
• Negative comment • 9 months ago • 0 replies
It works, but it is strangely uncomfortable and not intuitive. I deleted it immediately
Kodi was added to AlternativeTo by Stuck on Mar 1, 2009 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2021. Kodi is sometimes referred to as Xbox Media Center, XBMC, XBMC Media Center, Kodi.
it's good to use if you love movies and watching shows this is for you. kodi is still rockin!
The best of the best.
Powerful, great looking, and gets the job done very well.
A little bit of learning curve, but unstoppable for powerusers.
What used to be the greatest mediacenter for the first XBOX has turned into a nightmare. We all know the pros: it is free and not windows mediacenter.
Cons?
-Requires more steps to enable "unknown sources" than Android
-Is slowly closing down: bands addons, implements source verfication and so on..let's face it they what to monetize
-The UX has been "reworked" by insane people, e.g. the Systemsetting have cute useless biiiig icons now but you won't be able to find anything.
-Adding an AddOn from Zip from a remote source takes about 500% longer than before.
-For over 10 years now people have been requesting basic functionality like adding an IPCamera stream...still not done
I guarantee it: there will be a payed subscription model before there will be an IP camera plugin.
Time to fork.
Easy to configure
Free
Kodi is listed as an alternative to DVBviewer and MediaPortal, but it isn't really. Despite the URL "kodi.tv" it has no TV backend of its own and is dependent on a TV service like DVBviewer or MediaPortal to receive TV.
It works, but it is strangely uncomfortable and not intuitive. I deleted it immediately