Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet, including TV shows, PVR, and Live TV.
This media center has a customizable design and clean playback options. It also features Add-ons, Skins, UPnP compatibility, Web Interfaces, Remote Controls support, and more.
The Kodi project is managed by the non-profit XBMC Foundation, and developed by volunteers worldwide.
Kodi Media Center features
Music
Play all your music with AAC, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, and WMA formats. It has a cue sheet, tagging support, MusicBrainz integration, and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.
Movies
We support all the main video formats and sources, together with streamable online media, ISOs, 3D, H.264, HEVC, and WEBM. Kodi can import these movies with full posters, fan art, disc art, actor information, trailers, video extras, and more.
TV shows
The TV shows library supports episode and season views with posters or banners, watched tags, show descriptions, and actors. Video nodes/tags and smart playlists can additionally manage your library for special interests, making particular screens for sci-fi, anime, etc.
Pictures
Import photos right into a library and browse the completely different views, start a slideshow, and sort or filter all of them using your remote control.
PVR and Live TV
Watch and record live TV all from the GUI interface. It works with many popular backends together with MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend, VDR, Windows Media Center, and more.
Add-ons
There are add-ons for videos, music, changing Kodi’s behavior, popular web services, including more artwork, controlling your lights, and a lot more.
Skin
Allows you to fully change the entire GUI. Thanks to the extremely customizable skinning engine you’ll be able to change each side of the media center. Choose from dozens of community-created skins, every with its set of options, or create your dream UI.
UPnP
With UPnP compatibility, you’ll be able to stream to and from every other Kodi situation and play to different UPnP-compatible devices in your home with ease. Have one UPnP master device and use different Kodi situations as clients which automatically retains your watched status and library up-to-date. You may also now import from UPnP sources to synchronize your data inside situations of Kodi.
Web Interfaces
Interact with Kodi using its JSON-RPC-based remote interface. This brings many possibilities for remote controls, web browsers, and third-celebration tools to take Kodi to the next level.
Remote Controls
Control your media method with support for tons of remote controls, CEC-compatible TVs, or one in every one of the new Smartphone and Tablet Apps.
Kodi runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, and includes a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.
