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XBMC4XBox's 10-foot user interface is designed for the living-room TV, and the large icons and text in the graphical user interface allows the user to easily manage most common digital music, video, image, podcasts, and playlists formats from a computer, optical disk, local network, and the internet using an Xbox's game-controller or the Xbox DVD-Kit remote control.
The reason for this fork to Microsoft Windows was to get away from hardware and software platform limitations of the Xbox game-console platform that XBMC development started on, mainly because of the Xbox inability to support TV-tuner adapters natively as Erwin wanted PVR functionality. Now after several years and innumerable feature changes ...
Kodi uses one multimedia video player "core" for video-playback. This video-player "core" for video-playback is an in-house developed cross-platform media player, "DVDPlayer", which was designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav).
Runs on Windows, OSX, Linux, and Android. Features similar to Plex or Kodi. Closed source. Kodi Entertainment Center (formerly XBMC / Xbox Media Center) XBMC Foundation: Kodi/XBMC is royalty-free and cross-platform. The core code is written in C++ and is open-source licensed under GNU GPL v2.
Yes = Exclusive only to the Xbox One console. Xbox = Exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox platforms. Timed = Confirmed as exclusive for a certain period of time, but will become available on other platforms later. No = Available to more than one console of this or the previous console generation.
Kodi (previously XBMC), a cross platform open source software media-player/media center for Android, Apple TV, Linux, macOS and Windows. LimboMedia, a free cross platform home- and UPnP/DLNA mediaserver with android app and WebM transcoding for browser playback (build with java and FFmpeg).
The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.. For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video, even if it can also play audio files.
The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third console in the Xbox series.It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013 and in Japan, China, and other European countries in September 2014.