Watch movies, listen to music, view photos and create a library with all your media files. Watch online TV content, listen to Internet radio stations or podcasts, check out the weather and bookmark your favorite items. The tool includes the ability to recognize seasons and episodes from TV shows and to add "watched" tags to the files it already played.
Conceived as an entertainment hub for a wide variety of media types and developed as an open-source project, Kodi is a universal media player with an extensive array of add-ons and other extras. Wrapped up in an attractive interface, it offers to organize your library and playback local and remote videos, audio files, images, TV, radio podcasts, etc.
Its attractive interface aims at becoming your one and only multimedia library, from where you can browse your holiday photos, listen to the radio, watch a movie, or playback your favorite music videos. Such an ambitious project requires equally ambitious management tools capable of keeping a wide variety of formats, sources, and file types neatly organized and easily at hand. In this area, Kodi still offers ample room for improvement. The main menu offers a mixed list of categories, in this order – Music (or any audio file, I presume), Music Videos, TV, Radio, Add-ons, Pictures, Videos (for movies and other non-music videos), Favourites, and Weather! It includes a useful search function, though, which will let you locate any item added to its library in a snap, and a button that will take you to the settings window.
Formerly known as XBMC, this multimedia player, and media aggregator covers most audio and video codecs and specifications, as well as a good variety of image file formats. This will allow you to playback media files in various qualities, including HD videos and lossless audio codecs. And this is actually what Kodi is about – playing back media files. It comes with all the features that you need to make that a pleasurable experience, such as playlists, artwork and tag support, access via remote control, slideshows, etc.
User-created add-ons are probably what make Kodi stand out from many similar tools. As an open-source development, it is easy for Kodi to benefit from the creativity of its many fans. In this section, you’ll find specific tools to play content from well-known Internet portals (such as YouTube or SoundCloud), access and record TV and radio channels, and many other media-related sites and utilities, such as scripts, lyrics, subtitles, etc.
Kodi aims at becoming the only media hub you’ll ever need to enjoy all your content, both locally and remotely. To achieve that goal, it’ll need to improve in certain areas, but that’s the beauty of open-source developments – they never stop improving.
v18.4 [Sep 1, 2019]
Interface:
- Fix Missing text when sorting from inside addon.
- Clear/save focus-history when leaving window with focus on parent folder item.
- Picture slideshow fixes (Estuary).
- Subscribe to controller install events (games).
- Fix radio button text length (Estuary).
- Fix season/episode formatting for video addons (video).
- Don't consider display mode ids constant (Android).
Playback/Display:
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for playlists (.strm) and "artists" smart playlists (music).
- Fix PlayMedia builtin for smart playlists and playlists (music).
- FFmpeg: Bump to 4.0.4-Leia-18.4.
- Load program from stream property without using streaminfo (video).
- Fix initialization of AVD3D11VAContext structure (video, Windows).
- Fix TS resume point, related to PR16314 (video).
- Fixed memory leak, fixed segfault (video, Linux).
- Fix PAPlayer to handle passthrough for TrueHD (audio).
PVR:
- Fix component dependencies.
- PVRRecordings: Prevent concurrent calls to video database.
Other/General fixes:
- Use first protocol from add-on in add network dialog.
- Use exact matching for protocol in file+dir factories.
- Use of absolute paths in combination with hosts in URLs.
- Fix file times for vfs addons.
- Fix + sign HTTP folder.
- Corrections to filesystem CircularCache initialization and termination.
- Controller fixes.
- Delete stream details when video info is refreshed.
- Do not attempt to further resolve plugin paths for failing entries.
- Revert "fixed: We should always update stream details from player...".
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