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Kodi (formerly XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, with a 10-foot user interface for use with TVs and remote controls.

It allows users to play and watch most videos, music, podcasts and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the Internet. Our forums and Wiki are full of knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer. We also have useful Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Youtube pages.

Disclaimer: Kodi does not offer any media itself. Users must provide their own content or manually point Kodi to third-party online services. The Kodi project does not provide any support for bootleg video content.

Music

Kodi can play all your music, including mp3, flac, wav and wma formats. It has cue sheet, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control over your music collection.

Movies

Kodi can also make movies! Kodi supports all major video formats, including streamable online media, and can easily import, browse and play your movie collection.

TV programs

The TVShows library supports episode and season views with posters or banners, set tags, show descriptions, and actors. Great for keeping track of your progress.

Pictures

Import photos into a library and scroll through the different views, start a slideshow, sort or filter them all with the remote control.

PVR

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

Supplement

The real power of Kodi comes from the large selection of user-created add-ons available through our repositories. There are add-ons for popular web services, applications and scripts. See which ones are currently available: Add-ons

Skin

Kodi allows you to change the entire look of the GUI interface. Due to the highly customizable skinning engine, you are able to change almost every aspect of the look and feel. By using different colors, images and menu structures, you can create a stunning interface that matches your needs as a complete entertainment or information platform. See which ones are currently available: Skins

UPnP

With UPnP compatibility, you can easily stream to and from other Kodi instances and play to other UPnP compatible devices in your home. Have a UPnP master device and use other Kodi instances as clients that automatically keep you monitored status and library up to date. You can also now import from uPnp sources to sync your data across instances of Kodi.

Web interface

Interact with Kodi using its JSON-RPC based front end. This gives plenty of options for remote controls, browsers and third-party tools to take Kodi to the next level.

Remote control

With support for hundreds of remote controls, CEC-compliant TVs or one of the new smartphone and tablet apps, Kodi lets you control your media your way.

What is new

Multiple instances of binary additions

This allows Kodi to load multiple instances of a binary add-on. For example: TVHeadend users can now run more than one instance of the add-on to connect to multiple back-end TVHeadend servers, with individual settings such as channel groups and hidden channels maintained per add-on instance. @AlwinEsch was the developer behind much of this, with support from @ksooo. Your favorite binary add-on may not support this feature yet, but we hope add-on developers introduce this into their projects soon.

AV1 video support

Several Kodi platforms now allow hardware decoding of AV1 media. The Inputstream API has been updated to support AV1, allowing plugins that use inputsream.adaptive to play AV1 streams.

Reworking of subtitles

Massive rework of the subtitle system was done by @CastagnaIT, making subtitle formats more consistent for development and maintenance, and enabling features previously not possible. Kodi now supports dynamic positioning of fonts, changing border and background colors, subtitle placement, improved multilingual support and more. If you’re a regular user of subtitles, jump in and check it all out.

Play (book) Savestate Support

The GSOC 2020 project of @NikosSiak got some polishing details before it was finally (!) merged. With guidance from @VelocityRa and @gusandrianos, and assistance from @garbear, this has been a long time coming. This feature allows you to save your game state at any time, even if the games do not have native savestate capabilities themselves. Great for gamers, and times when you’re not watching videos with Kodi 😉

Windows HDR support

Full HDR support for the Windows Desktop platform has been implemented by @thexai along with many improvements throughout the Windows (DXVA/2) video pipeline. HDR is not available on non-Desktop ie UWP Store (Xbox) versions. Improvements to allow more accurate ACES Filmic and HABLE tone mapping make even SDR video look better, and these capabilities have been implemented for both UWP and Desktop versions of Kodi.

NFSv4 support

Changes to allow NFSv4 support were implemented by @lrusak, since we previously only supported NFSv3. There are some caveats to this (you must explicitly select either NFSv4 or NFSv3 for a source). Give it a try!

Context menu consistency

Improvements to right-click/long-press context menu handling were made by @ksooo in a number of areas. This makes the function of the context menu much more consistent across different windows, and allowed some new features like playing albums directly from widgets, series CV, etc. to be added.

Behind the scene

Most of the changes are “under the hood” and invisible to users, but improve the stability, performance and security of Kodi. API changes have been made to develop Python and Binary extensions and bring new skinning features. There are updates to Kodi dependencies on most if not all Kodi platforms. Fixes from common use of code static analysis tools. Database migration fixes for a smoother update…and much more.

There are too many individual changes to detail everything. To learn more, look back through the Nexus Alpha to RC2 release announcements and review the GitHub changelog here.

Time does not stand still. Branches are split and development on Kodi v21 (codename: “Omega”) is already underway. Thanks again for your continued support as we continue to make Kodi great!