Kodi 21.2 “Omega” – Final

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, PVRs, 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 and 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 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

Stream and record live TV directly from the user-friendly GUI. Kodi is compatible with numerous popular backends, including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVheadend, VDR, Windows Media Center, and more.

Add-ons

It offers add-ons for streaming videos, listening to music, customizing its features, integrating popular web services, enhancing visual artwork, managing smart lights, and much more.

Skin

A highly customizable skinning engine lets you transform the entire GUI and control every detail of the media center’s appearance. You can select from dozens of community-created skins, each offering unique customization options, or design your personalized user interface.

UPnP

Kodi’s UPnP compatibility enables seamless streaming between different Kodi instances and other UPnP-enabled devices on your home network. Designate one Kodi instance as the UPnP master, and other instances will automatically update their watched status and library information. This allows for centralized control and synchronization. Additionally, Kodi can import media from UPnP sources, further enhancing data synchronization across your network.

Web Interfaces

Kodi’s JSON-RPC interface enables powerful remote control and automation capabilities. This allows users to interact with Kodi programmatically, opening up a world of possibilities for remote controls, web browsers, and third-party tools. Developers can leverage this interface to create custom integrations, enhancing Kodi’s functionality and user experience.

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.