Kodi

Kodi is a popular open-source video streaming software. Users can watch the latest and hottest news, blockbuster movies, and enjoy great music. Simply enter relevant keywords to find content that interests you, satisfying your personalized viewing needs. Kodi boasts a massive library of film and television resources, covering diverse genres such as action, comedy, romance, and crime. Users can enjoy their favorite shows anytime, anywhere, and customize settings such as picture quality and comments to create the most comfortable viewing environment. As users watch more, Kodi will recommend more content based on their preferences, ensuring that every refresh reveals a wealth of hidden gems.

Features:

Music: Your music collection has never looked this good! Support for almost every format, playlists, party mixes and more.

Movies: So much better than a pile of DVDs on a shelf. Kodi brings your movie collection to life with artwork, cast, genres and more.

TV Shows: Perfect for binge watching or the occasional catch up on your favourite show. Kodi keeps all your TV organised like nothing else.

Photos: Kodi is the best way to share your photos on the biggest screen in the house with a personal slideshow.

PVR: Kodi allows you to watch and record live TV all from an easy to use interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more.

Games: Kodi isn't just for passive entertainment media. You can also play games on Kodi. Pick from a large number of emulators, or even play a stand-alone game. There's even extensive support for game controllers.

FAQs:

What is Kodi?

Kodi is a free open source (GPL) and multi-platform multimedia centre which can centralise all your local, network and internet media into one easily accessible location.It is designed to be installed on hardware that is directly connected to your AVR or TV preferably via HDMI.

How is Kodi different to all the other media players?

Kodi allows you to bring all your media together in one location.Not only can it play a wide variety of media formats - Video, Audio, Images - Kodi also allows you to create libraries of your content which can be displayed and browsed in an artwork rich environment.Kodi can handle Movies, TV Shows, Seasons and Episodes, Music & Audiobooks, Music Videos, Live TV and PVR, Pictures & Comic Books.In addition, Kodi has a vast repository of Add-ons (plugins) that can be installed to extend Kodi's capabilities, either by adding new features to Kodi or accessing content from internet sources such as YouTube, Netflix and many, many more.

Can I use Kodi as a Media Server

Kodi does include a built in UPnP server that can stream Music and Video content from your Kodi library to other devices. It can also act as a UPnP client to receive content from other Servers on your local network.Apart from the UPnP component, Kodi is not designed as a Server. Each viewing location will have a Kodi instance installed on the hardware attached to the AVR or TV at that location.During normal use, Kodi accesses local content off your hard disk or from your local network storage via a File sharing protocol such as SMB.

IMPORTANT:

The official Kodi version does not contain any content what so ever. This means that you should provide your own content from a local or remote storage location, DVD, Blu-Ray or any other media carrier that you own. Additionally Kodi allows you to install third-party plugins that may provide access to content that is freely available on the official content provider website. Any other means of watching illegal content which would otherwise be paid for is not endorsed or approved by Team Kodi.

Estuary is the new standard skin and is designed to be fast and user friendly.

With the skin Estouchy, Kodi has now been enhanced to better work with larger 5″ or up phones and tablets. Kodi is not designed or recommended for use with smaller phones.

Summary:

Kodi media center is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub designed specifically for home theater PCs. It features a 10-foot user interface optimized for living room use with remote control navigation. The software allows users to easily browse and access various types of digital media including videos, photos, podcasts, and music from multiple sources such as hard drives, optical discs, local networks, and the internet.