Kodi is an open-source and free media player soft-ware. Kodi works on several operating systems as well as hardware platforms. It allows the users to play and access streaming media, including podcasts, music and videos which are found on the Internet and common digital media files too, from their network storage and local media
Kodi is an open source and free software which has been developed by the XBMC Foundation. The software is available for multiple OS and hardware platforms. Kodi allows people to play and view most of the streaming media smoothly. These media may include videos, podcasts, music etc. This also consists of all sorts of common digital media files from the network and local storage too.
Some of the most common videos, image formats, playlists, audio files, slideshows, weather forecasts and third party plug-ins are supported by the software. It is to be noted that the software is network capable, but Kodi does not consist of its internal digital television tuner code for DVD/PVR recording and LIVE TV functionality. The software acts a unified PVR/DVD front end, along with an EPG television guide GUI interface. The source code of Kodi is distributed as an open source under the GNU_GPL (General Public License).
Below mentioned is the list of features one can expect to find in this software.
Support and Compatibility
The list of supported formats of this software has been provided below.
Apart from these, it is to be mentioned that Kodi is compatible and available with operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, and Kodibuntu.
Here are some of the benefits of Kodi which you may find interesting while using the software.
Go through the following points to know about the disadvantages of using this software.
Kodi is basically a non-profit and free software forum driven open source program that is developed by the volunteers during their free time. They do not have any monetary gain from this software development. This software application’s core is programmed in C++. It also uses OpenGL graphics rendering under Kodi for both Mac OS and Linux.
It is to be noted that Kodi for Windows uses the Direct 3D rendering and DirectX multimedia framework. Despite certain limitations of this software, Kodi has wide range of functionality and compatibility. For the sake of information, it is to be mentioned XBMC has won a Lifehacker Awards in the year 2014 for Best Media Player listed in their entertainment selection. XBMC has won 2 SourceForge 2006 Community Choice Awards as well.
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