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Media Center Master A free metadata and media organization solution for Windows. Media Center Master maintains a free and also premium set of features that allow you to manage and automate the collection and organization of your digital media library, including a wide range of features from movie and T.V.
Downloads (torrents and usenet) to the acquisition of artwork, clear art, theatrical trailers, subtitles, and more. Media Center Master makes use of several unique features such as its own, private usenet news indexer and a centralized database of video file hashes to make detection of movies and videos (even with odd naming) much easier. The program includes extended support specifically for Kodi through the use of the JSON-RPC protocol. This Kodi Integration can be configured to trigger automatic scans for new media (update the library) after each metadata fetch or be set for manual triggers when wished for by the user as well as show notifications when new media is added to your library. User-contributed tutorial (older version).
From / (codename: ) Development status Active Written in core, with C (binary) or as from, and, and Available in 75+ languagesWebsite Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a software application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a technology. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with a software for use with televisions. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, and videos from the internet, as well as all common files from local and network. It is a alternative to for (HTPC) use. Kodi is highly customizable: a variety of can change its appearance, and various allow users to access content via online services such as,.
The later versions also have a personal, video-recorder (PVR) graphical for receiving live television with (EPG) and high-definition (DVR) support. The software was created as an independently developed media player application named Xbox Media Center (abbreviated as XBMC) for the first-generation game console, and was later made available under the name XBMC as a native application for, and -based operating systems. It is also available as a standalone version referred to as. Because of its open source and nature, with its core code written in C , modified versions of Kodi/XBMC together with a have been used as a suite or in a variety of devices including, digital signage, hotel television systems, and embedded systems based on platform like. Derivative applications such as, and have been spun off from XBMC or Kodi.
On 1 August 2014, it was announced that starting with version 14, XBMC would be renamed Kodi. On 10 November 2015 the KODI trademark was registered by the XBMC Foundation. Overview Kodi supports most common audio, video, and image formats, playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and third-party plugins. It is network-capable (internet and shares). MC360 skin (Xbox 360 Blades replica). Hardware requirements Kodi has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a capable for all rendering.
Powerful 3D GPU chips are common today in most modern computer platforms, including many, and XBMC, now Kodi, was from the start designed to otherwise be very resource efficient for being as powerful and versatile framework as it is. It runs well on what (by standards) are relatively underpowered (with support), or capable systems that are /, (AArch32 and AArch64), or or later based. When software decoding of a Full HD high-definition and high bit-rate video is performed by the system, a 2 GHz or faster CPU is required in order to allow for perfectly smooth playback without dropping or giving playback a jerky appearance. Kodi can however offload most of the video decoding process onto graphics hardware controller or embedded video processing circuits that supports one of the following types of hardware-accelerated: Google's MediaCodec API for Android, Intel's, Nvidia's API, AMD's API, Microsoft's API, Apple's VDADecoder/VideoToolBox APIs, and the Khronos Group's API, VPU, 's VPU, and 's GPU MMAL. By taking advantage of such hardware-accelerated video decoding, Kodi can play back most videos on many inexpensive, low-performance systems, as long as they contain a supported VPU or GPU.
Language support Kodi includes full support with translations to many different languages by default, with its language files translated to over 75 languages to date. Kodi's structure is such that if the language is not available, or not up-to-date, it can be made by editing simple in an -file, which can then be submitted to XBMC's project management and tool for use by others, and after version 11.0 XBMC switched to using for more easily handled translator translations using web-based translation platform with online translation services. The latest version of XBMC supports over 74 languages. Core features Addons Manager, addons and plugins Kodi features several open to enable to create capabilities which extend Kodi with a multitude of, such as audio and video streaming plugins for online sources, screensavers, skins/themes, visualizations, weather forecasts, web interfaces, web scrapers, widget scripts, and more. Kodi developers encourage users to make and submit their own addons to expand media content and accessible from within Kodi. Kodi/XBMC features, since version 10.0 (codename: 'Dharma'), an Addons Framework architecture and an Addons Manager GUI client that connects to a service that serves add-on apps and which among other things provide online content to Kodi, the 'Addons Manager' (or 'Addons Browser') inside Kodi allows users to browse and download new addons directly from Kodi's GUI. Many of these online content sources are in high definition services and use video streaming site as sources for the media content that is offered.
Kodi has extensibility and integration with online sources for free and premium streaming content, and offers content from everything from commercial video to free educational programming, and media from individuals and small businesses. Not all content sources on add-ons are available in every country, however. Due to rights agreements, many content sources are geo-restricted to prevent users in outside countries from accessing content, although some have taken to bypassing the regional restrictions in order to unblock these sources, disregarding the usage rights. Plugins and scripts Kodi features an integrated Python Scripts interpreter for addon extensions, and WindowXML (a XML-based engine for creating a GUI for apps and ) in a similar fashion to Apple macOS.
Python widget scripts allow normal users to add new functionality to Kodi themselves, using Python scripting language. Current scripts include functions like and browsers, cinemaguides, weather forecast, video streaming services like YouTube, Internet-radio-station browsers such as Pandora Radio, online picture sharing sites like, TV guides such as, e-mail clients, different timetables, scripts to control PVR software and hardware, file-sharing downloaders , also such as. Metadata extraction and web scrapers Kodi has the built-in optional function to automatically download information, and other related media artwork online through its that looks for media in the user's audio and video folders and their sub-directories. These 'scrapers' are used as to obtain detailed information from various Internet resources about movies and television shows. It can get synopses, reviews, movie posters, titles, genre classification, and other similar data. XBMCGUI then provides a rich display for audio and video files that the scrapers have identified. Scrapers use sites like themoviedb.org or to obtain and information on movies, for TV show posters and episode plots, for audio CD track listings, and and for album, reviews, and metadata.
Fanart.tv has been added to the list of information sources and XBMC can use it to retrieve logos, backgrounds, CDs with transparent backgrounds, album covers and banners among other image types for music artists, TV shows and movies, the popularity of which contributed to XBMC being able to handle new image types. Skins and themes Like the majority of applications that originated from a ' scene, modification and customization of the interface using is very popular among Kodi users and hundreds of skins and themes are available for users to install.
The Kodi skinning engine's flexibility is also advantageous to third parties wanting to create derivative works, as it facilitates rebranding the environment and making deeper changes to the look and feel of the user interface. The skins 'Confluence' and 'Touch' are the two official default for; Kodi with an ever evolving variance of 'Confluence' being the default set-top box style skin designed for large screen televisions and displays since XBMC version 9.11, and 'Touch' which introduced with XBMC version 11.0 being design for small screen devices with, such as tablets. 'Project Mayhem' had been the default before XBMC version 9.1; this skin is now in its third version, commonly known as 'PM3.HD' ( PM III High-Definition). Users can also create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites that are used for Kodi skin trading and development.
Many such third-party skins exist that are well maintained by the community, and while some skins are originals with unique designs, most begin as a clone or an exact replica of other multimedia software interfaces, such as, (MCE), MediaPortal, and others. In addition to skins and themes users can create a themed package called a 'build'. Within this package homebrew developers are able to distribute a skin and multiple addons. The delivery mechanism used within the Kodi scene is called a wizard with the Replicant Wizard being the most prominent. Web Interfaces Web Interface addons for Kodi normally allow browsing a media library remotely, to handle music playlists from a computer instead of television. Others allow remotely controlling the navigation of XBMC like a remote for of an installed and concurrently active Kodi session running on a computer if it runs on an internet tablet or similar device with a touch interface. Others act like a media manager to allow modifying metadata and artwork in XBMC's video and music libraries.
Application launcher Kodi has a 'My Programs' section which is meant to function as an application launcher for third-party such as computer games and, all from a with and different listings options. However, while this feature was fully functioning on the Xbox version of XBMC, it is still in its infant stage on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, thus requiring third-party launcher plugins to function properly. Live TV with EPG and PVR/DVR frontend From version 12.0 (Frodo) Kodi has a native Live TV with and features with a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) frontend GUI, enabling and playback to and from a with PVR Client Addons for most popular PVR backends ( server) that can be installed separately as plugins in XBMC. PVR backend can either be networked DVR set-top box hardware or PC-based digital video recorder software which can run on the same computer or other computers on the same network.
PVR software and hardware is available which can turn computers or appliances running, and devices into DVRs. PVR Client Addons are available for many PVR software and hardware such as Argus TV, DVBLogic DVBLink, ForTheRecord, Tvheadend, (formerly ), and Enigma2-based DVR set-top boxes such as, and., as well as PVR Client Addons for direct LAN connection to network-attached TV-Tuners such as, PCTV Systems Broadway, and Njoy Digital AnySee N7 DVB-S2 Network-Tuner.
There is also a PVR Client Addon for the internet-based television providers (FilmOn.TV Networks), and Stalker Middleware, as well as a simple PVR client addon for in general. Audio, video, and pictures playback and handling Kodi can play media from CD/DVD media using an internal drive. It can play media from an internal built-in and shares (Windows File-Sharing), or stream them over DVRs/PVRs, (UPnP) or (DLNA) shares, or stream -shares via! Kodi can take advantage of a broadband Internet connection if available to stream Internet-video-streams like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, and Veoh, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as ). Kodi includes the option to submit music usage statistics to. It has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG function and many.
Kodi can all resolution videos and output them to resolutions. Under Microsoft Windows, Kodi supports Directsound and WASAPI; since performs no mixing or resampling, it provides best audio quality. Format support Kodi can be used to play/view all common multimedia formats through its native clients and parsers. It can decode these audio and video formats in software or hardware, and optionally pass-through / audio, or encode to AC3 in real time from movies directly to digital output to an external audio-/ for decoding. Main article: XBMC 9.04 (codename: Babylon) point-release version of XBMC for Xbox, now obsolete, was released on 6 May 2009 as the last official version of XBMC for Xbox.
The original developers of XBMC have since issued a statement stating they will no longer develop or support XBMC for Xbox as part of the XBMC project as of 27 May 2010. The development of XBMC for Xbox ended because the focus for all Team XBMC developers has completely shifted to the Linux, Mac, and Windows versions of XBMC instead. Even though the original XBMC project no longer develops or supports XBMC for the Xbox, an XBMC version for the Xbox is still available via the third-party developer spin-off project ', who have completely taken over the development and support of XBMC for the original Xbox. XBMC for Xbox was never an authorized/signed Microsoft product, therefore a is required in order to run XBMC on an Xbox game-console. XBMC for Xbox can be run as an application (like any Xbox game), or as a that appears directly when the Xbox is turned on. Since XBMC for Xbox was part of an open source software program, its development was stored on a publicly accessible.
Accordingly, unofficial builds from the subversion repository are often released by third parties on sites unaffiliated with the official XBMC project. Commercial systems The developers of Kodi (formerly XBMC) state that as long as the GPL licensing of the Kodi software is respected they would love Kodi to run on as many third-party hardware platforms and as possible, as ' Powered by Kodi' (or ' Powered by XBMC') branded devices and systems. They envision Kodi being pre-installed as a that commercial and non-commercial /'s and companies can use on their own hardware, hardware such as from, and, or and built into for web-enabled TVs, and other entertainment devices for the living room entertainment system, or similar uses. Below is a list of third-party companies who sell hardware bundled with Kodi or XBMC software pre-install, or sell uninstalled systems that specifically claim to be Kodi- or XBMC-compatible. Many of these third-party companies help submit bug fixes and new features back upstream to the original Kodi/XBMC project.
Computer hardware – a company based in best known for their worked in with the team. On 5 February 2013, together they released a fully passive cooled – the MC001 media centre ( and version), equipped with the latest XBMC 12 (OpenELEC 3.0). OpenELEC and ARCTIC are planning on their next release, aim to provide a more dedicated builds for the ARCTIC MC001 media centre systems.
AIRIS Telebision, sold by Telebision in Spain and designed specifically for the Spanish market, is a based on chipset, preinstalled Ubuntu base with XBMC for Linux and a customized AEON skin and Spanish plugins. Other than the modified skin, what is unique with the AIRIS Telebision's XBMC build is that it comes with a service platform that they call their 'App Store' which lets users download new Spanish plugins and updates for existing plugins. Telebision also lets users download a Live CD version of their software as, which lets users install their Telebision distribution on any Nvidia Ion based computer. Lucida TV II, made by LUCIDQ inc, is a nettop based on Nvidia Ion chipset which can be ordered with and XBMC software installed. Sells both custom and off the shelf hardware solutions primarily designed for Kodi/XBMC, such as remote controls, HTPC systems and accessories, including a custom HTPC PVR set-top-box pre-installed with XBMC that they call ' PulseBox' Pulse-Eight also offers free performance tuned embedded versions of XBMC that they call ' Pulse' which is based on and a custom PVR-build of XBMC that is meant to run on a dedicated HTPC system. Ultra and Xtreamer Ultra 2, manufactured by the South Korean company Unicorn Information Systems, are nettops based on Nvidia graphics and processors which comes with and Kodi/XBMC software pre-installed.
The first-generation Xtreamer Ultra uses Nvidia Ion chipset with a 1.80 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D525 CPU, while the Xtreamer Ultra 2 uses discrete graphics with a 2.13 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D2700 CPU. Since 10 September 2010, ZOTAC is shipping a software bundle that they call ZOTAC Boost XL with all their new and, such as Zotac's ZBOX and MAG series of Nettops which Zotac also does demos of with XBMC. This ZOTAC Boost XL software bundle consist of the software applications;, and XBMC Media Center. Zotac's ZBOX and MAG series of small Mini-PCs are nettop's based on Intel, AMD, or Nvidia graphics, and they are all sold in both as complete ready-to-use computer and as (without memory and hard drive). Zotac Zbox ID33, ID34, ID81, ID80 and AD04 are all specifically marketed towards the HTPC market, with some coming with Blu-ray Disc optical disc drive, and some with a remote control. The mintBox by the team is an OEM version of the Israeli company CompuLab's, which comes preinstalled with Linux Mint open source operating-system and software, desktop, and XBMC. Available in two fanless models, both with, HDMI output port, eight USB slots, two eSATA ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, built-in Bluetooth, and an infrared media center remote control.
Dedicated devices PrismCube Ruby by Marusys is a DVB-S2 twin-tuner high-definition DVR/PVR set-top-box with running XBMC as its main interface on-top of embedded Linux. The Little Black Box is a Linux kernel-based ARM media player with XBMC as its main interface. Marusys MS630S and MS850S are high-definition PVR-ready set-top-boxes with the ability to run Linux kernel-based media players like XBMC, and Marusys is advertising these two devices as compatible with XBMC. Myka ION is a fanless Nvidia Ion based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it comes pre-installed with XBMC Media Center, Boxee, and Hulu Desktop as applications that can be started from the main menu. The MK-X1 by Modified Konstructs is an Nvidia Ion-based set-top device based on that comes pre-loaded with XBMC, and the device has a recommended retail price of $300(US).
Made by Neuros Technology is an open Ubuntu-based set-top device and media extender designed to bring internet television and other video to the television, it comes pre-installed with XBMC Media Center. BryteWerks Model One Projector is a 1080p HD designed for home cinema use, it has an integrated home theater PC running a custom version of XBMC.
In addition it features a remote control, as well as a 720p 8.9-inch on the back of the projector for controlling the system. It also has a built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet adapters, as well as a slot-loaded Blu-ray Disc player, and includes a 500 GB and an additional internal 2 TB hard disk drive can be added. The Primus by Mediaimpact Technologies is a Linux Mint-based Media Center and Set-Top-Box that integrates MythTV, Netflix Desktop, Hulu Desktop, and Steam Gaming through Kodi for a seamless Home Entertainment system ready for the living room. Comes complete with SMK-Link remote control.
Derivatives and forks. Main article: Kodi/XBMC media center source code have over the years become a popular software to and to use as an for others to base their own media player or media center software on, as if Kodi were a,.
And today at least, and are all separate derivative products that are all openly known to at least initially have forked the and media player part of their software from XBMC's source code. Many of these third-party forks and derivative work of Kodi/XBMC are said to still assist with submitting bug fixes and sometimes help getting new features to the original Kodi/XBMC project so that others can utilize it as well, shared from one main source. However some which was initially a fork of XBMC have since fully or partially been rewritten to use. For more information see the main ' article. Some good examples on building on Kodi/XBMC are, and which are free and open source providing complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of Kodi/XBMC and plugins.
They are both designed to be extremely small and very fast booting embedded distributions, primarily optimized to be booted from or a, and specifically targeted to a minimum hardware setup based on ARM SoC's or Intel x86 processor and graphics. Similar embedded Linux distributions to OpenELEC/GeeXboX are the professionally made and which are commercial Kodi/XBMC-based software platform for DVR/PVR set-top boxes, with both being designed as a hybrid integration between Kodi media center software and 's Enigma2 PVR software scripts. Another example is, which is a third-party developer spin-off project of XBMC, with still active development and support of the Xbox platform. This project was created as a fork of XBMC as a separate project to continue having a version of XBMC for the Xbox hardware platform. It was not started by official members of the official XBMC project, nor will it be supported by the official Team Kodi in any way.
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It started when support for the Xbox branch was officially dropped by Team XBMC, which was announced on 27 May 2010. Programming and developing Kodi is a non-profit and driven project that is developed only by volunteers in their without any gain. XBMC Foundation and the team of developers leading the development of Kodi/XBMC, ' Team-Kodi'/' Team-XBMC', encourage anyone and everyone to submit their own for new features and functions, improve existing ones, or fix to the Kodi/XBMC project.
The online is -based and community driven, and it also works as a basic developers guide for getting a good overview of Kodi's architecture. However, as with most non-profit software projects, to delve deeper into programming, looking at the actual source code and the formatted 'code documentation' comments inside that code is needed.
XBMC Architecture Overview Schematic. Kodi is a cross-platform software application whose core is mainly programmed in. Kodi uses (or ) graphics under Kodi for both Linux and macOS, while Kodi for Windows uses multimedia framework and rendering, as the version of XBMC did. Some of Kodi's own, as well as many third-party libraries that Kodi depends on, are written in the, instead of C as Kodi's core, but they are then mostly used with a C wrapper and, through Kodi's core monolithic nature, are loaded via a for on-demand loading and unloading at. Kodi also still partially uses the SDL multimedia for input on Linux, but its developers are working on completely removing that small remaining dependency on SDL. Because of Kodi/XBMC's origin with the resource constraints on the hardware and environment of the first-generation Xbox game-console platform, all software development of Kodi/XBMC has always been focused on reserving the limited resources that existed on embedded system hardware, like the original Xbox (which was only a 733 MHz and 64 MB of RAM in total as ), as well as the still relatively low resources of devices today, of which the main hindrance has always been the amount of available system and graphics memory at any one time. Due to this it means that Kodi/XBMC is purposely programmed to be very resource and power efficient and can therefore run on very low-end and relatively non-expensive hardware, especially when compared to other media center software design for HTPC use.
But because of its origins from the Xbox game-console, Kodi/XBMC's legacy still runs in a more game-loop rendering environment rather than using a fully event-driven and on-demand rendering, meaning that it is almost constantly re-drawing the GUI and refreshing the frames as fast as it can, even when nothing is changing on the screen. This results in very high CPU and high GPU usage, which can be observed on embedded systems and low-end machines, and hence cause high temperatures, high fan activity, and high power consumption unless capped at a maximum frame per second configuration for that specific platform build.
Work is however constantly ongoing by the developers to make Kodi/XBMC run using much fewer resources on low-power and embedded systems, which will indirectly benefit all non-embedded systems as well. Efficiency improvements in this area are however being worked on in order to move away from that old style game-loop environment in order to reduce high CPU/GPU usage by the GUI, especially as XBMC usage on embedded platforms with limited CPU/GPU resources keeps growing in popularity. XBMC 11.0 (Eden) introduced Dirty-Regions rendering option for texture support to the XBMC skinning engine as an option, and XBMC 12.0 (Frodo) enabled Dirty Regions rendering to redraw the whole screen on a single dirty region by default on all platforms. Work is also in progress for XBMC 14.0 to introduce an abstracted scene-graph deferred rendering for GUI renderer abstraction.
Portability Kodi has a, with its officially available for /, and -based platforms. The Kodi GUI does require 3D hardware accelerated graphics that support, or, or with device drivers that support 2.0, or OpenGL 1.3 or later with, or in order to the GUI at an acceptable.
Kodi is thus officially not yet available for the processor architecture upstream in mainline source code repository from Team-Kodi, nor does it as yet support or rendering without OpenGL/GLES hardware accelerated graphics support. The combination of MIPS, DirectFB, and DRI is a popular architecture used today by simpler like digital broadcasting (cable/satellite) boxes and low-end, such as those based on chipsets from. Kodi ports to the MIPS processor architecture is, however, currently being actively worked on by several independent development teams. Kodi for Linux supports building systems for embedded development such as, , and the set of Makefiles and patches for easing the generation of toolchains as well as the creation of a file system on systems across a wide range of hardware, kernel platforms, and CPU architectures (x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.). Python scripts as plugins and addons (widgets/gadgets) Kodi allows developers to create addons using a built-in (version 2.6 or higher depending on system ) and its own WindowXML, which together form an XML-based widget toolkit for which they can extend the capability of Kodi by creating a for. Python scripts allow non-developers to themselves create new add-ons for Kodi, using Python.
Application programming interface (API) Other than the (APIs) available to third-party Python scripts and addon plugins, Kodi features several other APIs for controlling Kodi remotely or from an external application. These APIs includes a server, (with UPnP MediaServer ControlPoint, UPnP MediaRenderer DCP, UPnP RenderingControl DCP, and UPnP Remote User Interface server), and a custom multi-protocol Event Server for remote controls. GUI-engine and skinning (themes) Kodi/XBMC is noted as having a very flexible and robust for its. With its underlying complex (named libGUI in Kodi/XBMC), it provides a simple between the application code and the interface, while allowing extremely flexible dynamic layouts and animations that are easy to work with and makes it possible to create completely unique for XBMC. The skin files are written in, using a standard base, making - and personal customization very accessible. Software limitations This is a list of software limitations in the Kodi/XBMC source code:. Kodi's own internal cross-platform video and audio players ( DVDPlayer and PAPlayer) cannot officially play any audio or video files that are with technologies for, meaning audio files purchased from such as, and video files protected with or proprietary DRM.
Such files can be played only by using another media player supporting DRM, or by removing the DRM protection from the file. As of February 2014 Kodi supported plug-ins written in the Python script language and add-ons. Reception XBMC won a in 2014 for 'Best Media Player' in their entertainment selection. XBMC won two 2006 Community Choice Awards. In the 2007 Community Choice Awards, XBMC was nominated finalist in six categories. Also in the 2008 Community Choice Awards XBMC won an award for Best Project for Gamers.
With decision to discontinue Windows Media Center (WMC) starting Windows 10, htpcBeginner.com voted Kodi not only as the best WMC alternative but also in many ways better than WMC. See also: Xbox Media Center (XBMC) was the successor to the popular Xbox Media Player (XBMP) software. Xbox Media Player development stopped on 13 December 2003, by which time its successor was ready for its debut, renamed as it was growing out of its 'player' name and into a 'center' for media playback. The first stable release of XBMC was on 29 June 2004, with the official release of XboxMediaCenter 1.0.0.
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This announcement also encouraged everyone using XBMP or XBMC Beta release to update, as all support for those previous versions would be dropped, and they would only support version 1.0.0. Not featured in XBMP, the addition of embedded was given the ability to draw interface elements in the GUI, and allowed user and community generated scripts to be executed within the XBMC environment. With the release of 1.0.0 in the middle of 2004, work continued on the XBMC project to add more features, such as support for iTunes features like DAAP and Smart Playlists, as well as lots of improvements and fixes. The second stable release of XBMC, 1.1.0, was released on 18 October 2004. This release included support for more media types, file types, container formats, as well as video playback of Nullsoft streaming videos and karaoke support (CD-G). After two years of heavy development, XBMC announced a stable point final release of XBMC 2.0.0 on 29 September 2006.
Even more features were packed into the new version with the addition of RAR and zip archive support, a brand new player interface with support for multiple players. Such players include PAPlayer, the new audio/music player with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support, and the new DVDPlayer with support for menu and navigation support as well as ISO/img image parsing. Prior to this point release, XBMC just used a modified fork of for all of its media needs, so this was a big step forward. Support for iTunes 6.x DAAP, and Upnp Clients for streaming was also added. A reworked Skinning Engine was included in this release to provide a more powerful way to change the appearance of XBMC.
The last two features include read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted devices, and a 'skinnable' 3D visualizer. The release of XBMC 2.0.1 on 12 November 2006 contained numerous fixes for bugs that made it through the 2.0.0 release. This also marked the change from CVS to SVN (Subversion) for the development tree. On 29 May 2007, the team behind XBMC put out a call for developers interested in porting XBMC to the Linux operating system.
Since a few developers on Team-XBMC had already begun porting parts of XBMC over to Linux using SDL and OpenGL as a replacement for DirectX, which XBMC was using heavily on the Xbox version of XBMC. Development on the Git codebase is continuing and the versioning scheme has been changed to reflect the release year and month, e.g., 8.10, 9.04, 9.11, 10.05. On 27 May 2010, the team behind XBMC announced the splitting of the Xbox branch into a new project; 'XBMC4Xbox' which will continue the development and support of XBMC for the old Xbox hardware platform as a separate project, with the original XBMC project no longer offering any support for the Xbox. On 2 January 2011, XBMC moved the source code repository from to, hosted at. On 1 August 2014, an announcement was made of release 14 and name change to Kodi. Releases This is a release history with condensed change-log lists for the most important added or removed notable new features, functions, and changed in each stable version of Kodi/XBMC.