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Kodi has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a 3D capable graphics hardware controller for all rendering. Powerful 3D GPU chips are common today in most modern computer platforms, including many set-top boxes, and XBMC, now Kodi, was from the start designed to be otherwise very resource-efficient, for being as powerful and versatile a ...
GeeXboX is a free and open-source Live USB/Live CD based Linux distribution providing a home theater PC (HTPC) software suite for x86 personal and embedded ARM devices. Based on the OpenBricks framework, the GeeXboX distro comes since version 2.0 with a pre-configured version of XBMC media center as its main media player and GUI font-end. [42]
Kodi/XBMC is royalty-free and cross-platform. The core code is written in C++ and is open-source licensed under GNU GPL v2 . It offers the possibility for easy rebranding by an original design manufacturer (ODM) or original equipment manufacturer (OEM), with customizing of interface look and feel using skins , and simple plug-ins from third ...
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container, [2] and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV ...
Allows single file or playlist downloads. Windows Media Connect from Microsoft, a free UPnP AV MediaServer and control point (server and client) for Microsoft Windows. WMC version 2.0 can be installed for usage with Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP; WMC version 3.0 can be installed for usage with Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP
An IPTV set-top box connected to a TV set, designed to receive television from a service called Mview. Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, [1] [2] is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
The third-generation Fire TV, also known as the Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Alexa Voice Remote, was released in 2017. It eschewed the previous set-top box design for a small, diamond-shaped " pendant " reminiscent of the Fire TV Stick, which plugs directly into a television set's HDMI port and can be hung from a short HDMI extender cable.
MediaPortal is an open-source media player and digital video recorder software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. [1] [2] It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing pictures; and other functions. [3]