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There is no formal specification for the M3U format; it is a de facto standard.. An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. The file is saved with the "m3u" filename extension if the text is encoded in the local system's default non-Unicode encoding (e.g., a Windows codepage), or with the "m3u8" extension if the text is UTF-8 encoded.
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 ...
TOFU Media Platform consists of TOFU Media Center which is a fork of XBMC, and the current version of TOFU Media OS is a fork of Android 4.2 (Jellybean). [131] The first commercial third-party device to have official ToFu Media Center (Android version) application support was the GameStick video game console developed by PlayJam.
For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—for immediate or future use. While most computers and players automatically recognize the .PLS format, the first time a PLS file is used on a computer, the media player's settings may need to be changed to ...
iSedora Media Server: Prop. Non-free Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Objective C / C++ / JavaScript Unknown Yes Jamcast: Prop. Free No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Unknown C++ / C# / Java Unknown Yes JRiver Media Center: Prop. Non-free Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes C++ Yes Yes Kodi (formerly XBMC) GPL Free Yes Yes ...
mpv (EDL specifies what to show from which file; different from MPlayer and MPlayer2) [2] MythTV cut list; SageTV; SMPlayer automatically loads and applies a matching EDL file to the current movie being played; VLC media player with xspf files that specify start and end times, or with movie content editor; Kodi/XBMC; Zoom Player Max
Rich Text Format file (RTF) Other flexible containers can hold many types of audio and video, as well as other media. The most popular multi-media containers are: [2] [3] 3GP (used by many mobile phones; based on the ISO base media file format) ASF (container for Microsoft WMA and WMV, which today usually do not use a container)
A media player that is capable of progressive download playback relies on meta data located in the header of the file to be intact and a local buffer of the digital media file as it is downloaded from a web server. At the point in which a specified amount of data becomes available to the local playback device, the media will begin to play.