Kodi (formerly XBMC) is an award-winning, free and open source digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software. It is designed to be a media player for the living-room TV using only a remote control as the input device.
Kodi has several built-in UPnP A/V features, including the ability to receive UPnP and DLNA content pushed to Kodi, browse UPnP and DLNA media sources, sharing an Kodi library with other UPnP and DLNA devices, and even controlling UPnP and DLNA devices. UPnP is also the easiest way to share a library from one XBMC device to another.
XBMC turns your computer into a full featured multimedia jukebox. It also works on gaming consoles such as the Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Xbox.
Features include:
- Powerful skinning engine.
- Play CDs and DVDs from the disk or image file, including within ZIP and RAR archives.
- Creates a personalised library of your media complete with box covers, descriptions and fanart.
- Playlist.
- Slideshow.
- Weather forecast.
- Stream media from a computer/server over a network via UPnP, SMB/Samba/CIFS, FTP, or HTTP:
- UPnP MediaServer compliant with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standard.
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- Including all NAS (Network Attached Storage) that support UPnP or SMB/SAMBA/CIFS.
- iTunes Music Shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes 6.x on Mac or Windows).
- Stream supported media-files from the internet (if the stream protocol-format is supported).
- Stream media stored directly from RAR and ZIP archive.
- USB Memory Drives and USB Mass Storage Devices (FATX/FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 formated).
- Wide support for remote controls.
- Addons Manager and addons:
- Audio and video streaming plugins for online sources, widget scripts, skins/themes, visualizations, screensavers, web scrapers, weather forecasts, and web interfaces.
- Application launcher.
- Plays almost all popular audio and video formats around:
- Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support
- HDTV(High-Definition) and Standard Definition output resolutions (480p, 576p,720p, 1080i, 1080p and higher).
- TV-output: 50hz/60Hz NTSC-M/J (America/Asia) and PAL (Europe/Africa).
- RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB,VGA-output.
- NTSC playback on PAL TV and PAL playback on NTSC TV.
- Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono-connection or scart-adapter.
- Digital audio-out (stereo/mono/surround) SPDIF (adapter required):
- Video codecs:
- MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video.
- MPEG-4 ASP (H.263): DivX (Pro), OpenDivX, XviD and Nero Digital ASP.
- MPEG-4 AVC – Advanced Video Coding (H.264): Nero Digital AVC, x264, and DivX AVC video.
- Microsoft’s Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2, and v3).
- VC-1 (SMPTE 421M) Interlaced not yet supported (ffmpeg).
- RealVideo codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (RealPlayer G2), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8.x) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9.x).
- QuickTime 5.0, 6.0, 6.3 video and audio codecs (QDMC / QDM2).
- 3ivx D4 / 3vi1 MPEG-4 video (inc. MSZH/ZLIB Compressed-Header containers).
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video.
- Apple Graphics (SMC) video.
- Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder.
- On2 Technologies VP3 (VP3.x), VP4 (VP4.x), VP5 (VP5.x), and VP6 (VP6.2).
- AVS (Audio Video Standard) video codec.
- Intel Indeo 2 (Indeo2) and 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3) video decoder.
- NuppelVideo (NUV).
- VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV).
- Fraps FPS1 video decoder.
- Snow video decoder.
- DV50 (DVCPRO50) video decoder, and DV100 (DVCPRO HD) video decoder.
- ITU H.261 video.
- Creative Labs YUV (CYUV) video.
- Supermac Cinepak (CVID) video.
- ASUS V1 (ASV1) and ASUS V2 (ASV2) video.
- Video decoders: Smacker, Motion Pixels, BFI, AMV, Interplay C93, Zip Blocks, Duck TrueMotion 2, Delphine Software .cin, Bethsoft VID, QPEG, Miro VideoXL (VIXL), Winnov WNV1, LOCO, TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC), IBM Ultimotion (ULTI), Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC).
- Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation .
- Audio codecs:
- CDDA (Audio-CD) playback.
- WAV/WAVE (WAVEform) and PCM audio format.
- AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio.
- MPEG layer I, II, and III (inluding MP2 and MP3) audio.
- OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio codec).
- WMA – Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1 / WMA2 / DivX Audio v1/v2).
- WMA – Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA9).
- WMA Pro Audio Codec (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional).
- RealNetworks RealAudio codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, COOKER, DNET and ATRAC3.
- AC3 2.0 or 5.1 and Dolby Digital EX 6.1 or 7.1 audio in video (AC3 digital cable S/PDIF pass-through).
- Dolby Digital AC3 and AC3-WAV/AC3-CDDA 2.0 and 5.1 audio in video software decoded to stereo analog-out.
- Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio software decoder.
- Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio in Blu-ray rips via digital cable S/PDIF pass-through.
- DTS (Digital Theater System) 5.1 and DTS-ES 6.1 audio in DVD-Video (DTS digital cable S/PDIF pass-through).
- DTS (DTS and DTS-WAV/DTS-CDDA) audio in DVD-Video (software decoded).
- AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) profiles: Main, LC, HE, LTP, LD, ER, and aacPlus v1/v2 (AAC+ SBR/PS) audio.
- M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio) (including Nero Digital MP4).
- PureVoice (QCELP) audio decoder.
- AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio codec.
- FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio.
- WavPack lossless audio.
- MPC (Musepack, a.k.a. Mpeg+) lossless audio.
- APE (Monkey’s Audio) lossless audio.
- SHN (Shorten) lossless audio.
- ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) lossless audio.
- MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) / Packed PCM (PPCM) audio decoder.
- AMV audio decoder.
- Sonic audio decoder.
- AIFF/AIFF-C audio dcoder.
- Macromedia ADPCM decoder.
- Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes).
- Nellymoser ASAO decoder.
- True Audio (TTA) decoder.
- TrueSpeech audio decoder.
- Intel Music decoder.
- QDM2 audio decoder.
- Delphine Software .cin audio decoder.
- 8SVX audio decoder.
- MIDI music using Timidity.
- Tracker Mod’s audio.
- Adlib (AdLib and Sound Blaster OPL2/OPL3 and Dual OPL2/OPL3) FM audio.
- SID (Commodore 64 tunes) audio.
- YM (ATARI ST) audio.
- NSF (Nintendo NES Sound Format) audio.
- SPC (SPC700) audio.
- GYM (SEGA Genesis) audio.
- ADX/AST/ADP/DSP/YMF/HPS CRI MiddleWare and Gamecube ADPCM) audio.
- MOD/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM.
- vgmstream playback of 51 more streamed audio formats used in video games: aax, asd, asr, ass, bgw, bh2pcm, capdsp, ccc, dcs, de2, emff, fag, gbts, gca, gsb, idsp, idvi, isd, joe, kraw, mihb, msvp, mwv, omu, p2bt, pdt, rnd, rwar, rwav, sap, seg, smp, spd, spsd, spw, ss7, ssm, thp, vgs, vs, waa, wac, wad, wam, xa2, xmu, xsf, xvas, ydsp, ymf, and zwdsp.
- Video codecs:
- Internationalization support.
Website: kodi.tv
Support: Wiki
Developer: Team XBMC
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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