Kodi
Open-source media player compatible with Linux, Mac, Windows, Xbox, and iOS, designed for home theater PCs. Customizable with themes, supports 4K, audio and video formats, streaming, privacy-focused operations, and extensible with plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Media Streaming
- TV Shows meta data support
- Video library
- Media Center
- Media library
- Support for IPTV
- Media Server
- Automatic subtitles download
- Built-in Media Downloader
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for 4K
- Music Library
- Portable
- Support for subtitles
- Works Offline
- AirPlay Support
- No Tracking
- Music collection
- Dark Mode
- Jailbreak required
- HDR Support
- Musicbrainz support
- Built-in Media converter
- Support for DLNA
- Built-in subtitle search
Kodi News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Kodi
Kodi 21.3 brings HDR support on the Xbox One and Blu-ray playback enhancements on LinuxKodi 21.3 “Omega” has been released, delivering several features and improvements across video, aud...
- Maoholguin published news article about Kodi
Kodi 21.2 has been released with library management, video playback & HDR improvementsKodi 21.2 "Omega" has been released, focusing on bug fixes to enhance stability and performance. Th...
- POX published news article about Kodi
Kodi 21.0 “Omega” released with FFmpeg 6, Dolby Vision conversion, HiDPI support, and moreKodi, the open source entertainment center, has unveiled its latest version 21.0 “Omega”. This upda...
Recent activities
- visuality reviewed Kodi
Its not for dummies, period. This app assumes you know how to use a computer fairly well regarding, navigation, directory's and internet, if you dont, you tube it, you are NOT going to figure this one out on your own. I use it as a desktop app in place Plex as plex seem to be selling user data. It is a power great endlessly customizable application. For a web developer it a dream come true because you can likely make your own nodes. you just need to learn some python.
- DL300 replied to a comment / review on Kodi
- DL300 thinks Jailbreak required is a important feature of Kodi
- Anonim1488 reviewed Kodi
Minuses: 1) there is NO miniature window preliminary viewing - Preview;
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there is NO changing the playback speed of a media file (acceleration/deceleration). There is only forward/backward;
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category «Settings» is NOT intuitive, it is OVERLOADED with unnecessary, secondary information, which COMPLICATES the process of configuring the videographic player to meet the user's needs;
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lack of percentages (%) and the time of the viewed file, as well as the time until the end of the...
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- aph97 liked Kodi
- thinks Extensible by Plugins/Extensions is a important feature of Kodi
- hazemmohamed liked Kodi
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What is 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 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.
Kodi information
Developed by
The Kodi Foundation Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
Rating
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Comments and Reviews
it's good to use if you love movies and watching shows this is for you. kodi is still rockin!
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.
Its not for dummies, period. This app assumes you know how to use a computer fairly well regarding, navigation, directory's and internet, if you dont, you tube it, you are NOT going to figure this one out on your own. I use it as a desktop app in place Plex as plex seem to be selling user data. It is a power great endlessly customizable application. For a web developer it a dream come true because you can likely make your own nodes. you just need to learn some python.
Minuses: 1) there is NO miniature window preliminary viewing - Preview;
there is NO changing the playback speed of a media file (acceleration/deceleration). There is only forward/backward;
category «Settings» is NOT intuitive, it is OVERLOADED with unnecessary, secondary information, which COMPLICATES the process of configuring the videographic player to meet the user's needs;
lack of percentages (%) and the time of the viewed file, as well as the time until the end of the videography.
Plus - there is a technology for «Resuming Playback» - when you can resume watching a videographic file from the time stamp at which the recording stopped during the previous viewing.
A media center rich in features and add-ons. However, the default UI is quite confusing and heavy
It's got a wide variety of films just been rekeased
I used to have a WDTV, then an Asus O!Play, and when they died, I ended up with a Kodi player as a gift. It played everything that the other players would, and unlike them, it had internet connectivity, so things like subtitles and IMDB functions could be integrated.
So in addition to playing pretty much anything, it's also great for things like when you have a "who is that guy? I know I've seen him somewhere" moment when you're watching a movie, and you can see everything else in your library with that actor/director.
I've never really used it to stream; attempts to integrate it with Amazon Prime, Netflix, or even Youtube have been more effort than they're worth. But if you want a solid video playback server for your video library, it's about the best there is.