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This is list of software projects or products that are third-party source ports, modified forks, or derivative work directly based on Kodi Entertainment Center (formerly XBMC Media Center), an open source media player application and entertainment platform developed by the non-profit technology consortium XBMC Foundation.
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 ...
Connects an ordinary TV (or set-top box) to get IPTV. [10] [11] JRiver: JRiver: 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.
For an open-source project like Kodi to compete with the commercial products, it will probably have to simplify the process of finding and setting up add-ons. OpenELEC 5 brings Kodi closer than ever to being a plug-and-play product, but it is not quite foolproof yet.
The IPTV platform was renamed Microsoft Mediaroom on June 18, 2007 at the NXTcomm conference. [8] [9] In January 2010, Microsoft Mediaroom 2.0 was announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show. [10] On April 8, 2013, Microsoft and Ericsson announced plans for Ericsson to purchase Mediaroom. The sale was completed on September 5, 2013 ...
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 Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) was a non-profit consortium and standards organization focused on defining and publishing open for end-to-end Internet Protocol television standards.
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]