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Version: 17.6 / 18.0 Alpha 3 ^updated

Upload Date: 16 Aug 18

Developer: Team XBMC

Distribution Type: Freeware

Downloads: 828

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Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Supports some of the most powerful backends

The PVR (Personal Video Recorder) functionality will help you to record and watch live TV. It supports the MythTV, MediaPortal, Tvheadend and NextPVR backends. Additionally, the software supports hundreds of CEC-compatible TVs and remote controls, and includes UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support for streaming multimedia content to any UPnP-compatible devices.

Supported operating systems

Be it music, videos, online streams, pictures, online radios or optical discs, Kodi can handle them all. Besides the fact that it’s totally free, it can also run on Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures. If you want to make your own home theater, be sure to download and install the Kodi software today, as it might become your only media player and/or entertainment hub.

What is new in this release:

Fix possible crash in controller dialog
Update standard scrapers to lastest version available on release
Fix possible connection issues with internal webserver
Fix crash when peripheral joystick add-on is disabled

What is new in version 17.6 / 18.0 Alpha 1:

Fix possible crash in controller dialog
Update standard scrapers to lastest version available on release
Fix possible connection issues with internal webserver
Fix crash when peripheral joystick add-on is disabled

What is new in version 17.4:

Potentially fix crashing on Windows due to an issue in Python
Potentially fix crashing on Windows when enabling zeroconf
Fix sporadic crash on Windows when installing or updating add-ons
Fix issue for users with reverse proxies attempting to forward websockets.
Fix possible issue if Linux distro uses system ffmpeg and cause black screen with 10-bit H.265
Properly throttle scraping music information online to prevent overloading the provider
Fix native keyboard on iOS 11
Fix potential crash on Android O loading App icons
Fix non showing Kodi banner on Android O
Fix potential crash on Android with certain keymaps
Fix wrong detection of VP6 and VP8 videocodec on Android
Update FFmpeg to 3.1.9
Set hard requirement to use FFmpeg 3.1.x only
Fix for Hangup when viewing recording and pressing next/previous
Fix merged scraped album type and label correctly with that derived from tags from music files
Fix possible crash on Linux when using ALSA
Save skin settings immediatly after they have changed instead of only on shutdown

What is new in version 17.3:

Fixed missing binary add-ons on release time
Fixed crash on older distros like Ubuntu 14.04 with GCC 4.8 compiler

What is new in version 17.1:

Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
Fix EDL skipping
Fix slow song smartplaylist
Several PVR fixes
Update Chorus webinterface
Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
Improve analog stick handling
Improve plugin performance when building the content list
Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows
Don't close subtitle stream when switching audio
Fix replaygain for music files
Fix controllers buttons on Android
Fix music cleanup hanging on large MySQL music database
Fix use of SMB on Android on new installs
Fix possible Kodi upgrade migration hang during add-on update process
Add check in Windows installer for Service Packs and updates that Kodi needs to operate
Don't try to read tags from internet audio streams
Add setting to disable controller rumble on notifications

What is new in version 17.0 / 17.1 RC1:

Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
Fix EDL skipping
Fix slow song smartplaylist
Several PVR fixes
Update Chorus webinterface
Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
Improve analog stick handling
Improve plugin performance when building the content list
Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows

What is new in version 17.0:

Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
Fix Kodi not starting on some phones running Android 7
Revert changes that disabled plugin listing cache that which caused reduced browsing speed
Fix the cause of favourites not refreshing
Fix add-ons not being added to favourites if done through add-on manager
Update our default webinterface Chorus2 with several fixes and features
Fix possible deadlock when installing/uninstalling PVR add-ons
Fix possible failed add-on installs on Windows with a retry
Fix changing song ratings
Make sure to stop playback before uninstalling a PVR add-on
Try to handle graphics failures due to bad graphics driver on Windows
Fix long timeout for certain audio streams

What is new in version 16.1 / 17 Beta 6:

Show select dialog for director button in the information panel if there's more than one director
Fix video stall on Android during skipping of video or when opening the player controls
Fix potential memory leak in image handling
Fix several problems in the cmake build system
Redact username and password from the log if user has advancedsettings.xml
Fix creating temp folder when handling add-on updates on Windows which fixes the problem from Beta 4
Fix possible crash on handling certain fonts
Fix possible EPG lock up
Fix ASS subtitles on Windows
Fix memory leak with ASS and certain regular subtitles on all platforms
Revert change that broke RTL (right to left) language subtitles
Force re scan of music file tags to makes use of the newest available library structure
Fix not updating the favourites menu item after changes had been made
Add privacy policy screen in system information
Remember last used subtitle service when searching again
Fix hash checking in add-on installer which caused certain add-on not downloading when multiple repositories were installed
Fix conversion of POPM music tag values to the new 0 to 10 rating
Fix several issues to further improve controller support
Update CEC library with additional fixes
Fix some tag reading issues from music files

What is new in version 16.1 / 17 Beta 5:

Fix playback of HLS streams
Fix skin settings not loading when "reload skin" was triggered
Fix segfault on EOF for video caused by postprocessing
Fix possible crash on Android when other Android apps had missing icons
Change splash screen text once per second to show it's busy doing database and add-on upgrades instead of just static text.
Fix missing binary add-ons like PVR and controller handling on Windows
Add back seek to time using numeric input on video files

What is new in version 16.1 / 17 Alpha 3:

This v17 release which the users have named Krypton features a huge amount of rework in various areas like video playback, live TV & PVR, music library, skinning and more. All these areas underwent heavy changes which are now coming to an end and ready for the masses. This means this will be the last alpha and we'll soon be pumping out beta builds at a steady rate so the broader audience can give Kodi v17 a try. However let's first focus on what changed this past month.

What is new in version 16.1 / 17 Alpha 2:

10bit/HEVC hardware enabled playback on INtel or NVIDIA GPU that have the capabilities (see hardware specs)
Refactor of scrapers
Fix possible high CPU usage with GUI rendering
Playback improvement on all platforms
Support for multiple external ratings and userrating from GUI and smartplaylists
Audio and subtitle filter added to smartplaylists
Use ffmpeg for loading certain types of images and drop external libraries
Added PVR to eventlog feature
Various database optimisations
Unify behaviour of context menu
Improvements on binary add-on handling
Rework of rendercapture which is used by boblight or ambilight implementations
Removes SAP streams support
Added MVC, framepack and 3D switching support on Raspberri-Pi
Change certain settings from spinners to a list
Further improvements on DirectX implementation
Further unify certain skin windows to make it easier to make new skins without duplicating same code
Music mood scanning
Game controller add-ons
Improved tag reading from music files
Improvement on Kodi rendering system which should reduce CPU load and pave the way to headless some day
Add InProgress node for TV Shows
Fix CPU count on Android
Various changes to Kodi python API. Please check documentation
Save skin settings on early exit which should fix problems with loosing settings after restart
Improved binary add-on API
Improvements to internal webserver
Use number separators from the selected GUI language (example 1.000,4 / 1,000.4) and also apply this to ratings
Update to FFmpeg 3.0 which brings improved playback, stability and security fixes
Security and stability improvement by updating to: Python 2.7.12 / mDNSResponder to 625.41.2 / libxslt 1.1.29 / libmicrohttpd to 0.9.50 / gettext 0.19.8 / libzip 1.1.2 / libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 / libpng 1.6.21 / lzo 2.09 / sqlite 3120200 / openssl 1.0.2h / taglib 1.11
Enable IPv6 for CURL
Added CMake building on all platforms. Still work in progress
Switch to Visual Studio 2015 building
Remove boost, CXimage, jpgIO, libsquish dependencies as they are obsolete
Auto create code documentation with Doxygen including a to-do list (link: https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/)
Moved old PyDocs of the Kodi API to Doxygen
Added skinning API to Doxygen
Removed dead and obsolete core code
Fixed memory leaks
Fixed possible code deadlocks
Fixed possible security flaws
Fixed possible crashes
Fixed code flaws found by various analyses tools

What is new in version 16.1:

Never cache addons directories
Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don't call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
Fixed crash under JSON-RPC on iOS/OSX
20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost
Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid
Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows
Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press
Don't do a video chapter skip if there's only one chapter
Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit
Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows
Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit
Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names
Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering
Fix song reported on playback of songs from cuesheet

What is new in version 16.0 / 16.1 RC2:

Never cache addons directories
Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don't call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
Fixed crash under JSON-RPC on iOS/OSX
20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost

What is new in version 16.0:

Start of integration of ADSP (Audio Digital Signal Processing) handling (no add-ons shipped yet)
Improve image resizing and caching algorithm to improve image quality of images
Added support for the musicbrainz "ARTISTS" tag in id3v2, ape, xiph.
Add date added to music library and use it for sorting
Support saving skin settings as add-on data instead of in guisettings.xml
Image resource add-ons which provides common image libraries than can be used by several skins and add-ons.
Don't mess with the long and short date formats defined in the language files
Win32: Proper 24.0/60.0 Hz refresh rate in fake fullscreen mode
Add sort method for albums "artist / year". This will sort the albums chronological per artist.
Moved some add-on categories to "look and feel" in add-on manager
Series recording added for PVR
Add a "none" option for preferred subtitles
Properly handle wired or bluetooth headsets on Android and only use PCM output
Fix playback of VP9 and VC1 video codecs on Android
Use best possible icons from other Android apps while browsing these in Kodi
Enable true 1920x1080 output on AMLogic device without up-scaling
Add Korean, Chinese and Czech keyboards
Add multi-touch support for Linux platform
Improve touch-screen keymapping
The item that you had previously chosen will now be selected in the selection list instead of just starting at the top of the list
Decouple Kodi and system volume on Android which removes the double audio volume slider
Karaoke support has been completely removed as it wasn't functional
Further improve DX11 implementation in Windows
iOS9 support
Various PVR fixes and improvements
Various improvements to the music section
Three finger touchpad mapping in iOS to make room for new tablet gestures which will be available in Alpha 4 to complement existing tablet gestures.
Kodi now supports being compiled with Xcode 7
The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
Add stereoscopic depth for Confluence skin
Extended support for browsing movies by country and through UPnP as well as user-ratings which we be added in future versions.

What is new in version 15.2 / 16.0 Beta 3:

Fixed: nn-wrking tuch input in file manager
Fixed: wrkarund fr MySQL 5.7.x query ptimizer changes
Fixed: remve brken musicvide scraper
Fixed: dn't shw "sync playback t display" ptin n Andrid as it's nt supprted
Fixed: fix cdepage fr Krean language input
Fixed: added wrkarund fr triggering repsitry updates during playback
Fixed: fix crash in PVR calling the cntext menu
Fixed: shw K dialg instead f empty list clicking n the update buttn in add-n infrmatin panel
Fixed: several cverity and cppcheck cde analysis prblems
Fixed: time smetimes jumped backwards n playing bluray m2ts files and fixes stutter n switching files
Fixed: several issues regarding music library
Fixed: timer and EPG handling in PVR
Fixed: crashing n cleaning up events
Fixed: dn't shw brightness/cntrast cntrls when using Andrid MediaCdec (Surface)
Fixed: dnt invalidate art fr addns that are new r nt updated since last fetch
Fixed: Andrid stylus devices dn't respnd n input
Fixed: segfault when ADSP is enabled in settings
Fixed: missing art when playing smething frm a music add-n
Fixed: variety f cleanups and prblems fr AMLgic chips
Fixed: fixed pssible directry traversal bug due t insufficient url checking
Fixed: handling f media key n Andrid
Changed: add supprt fr pre-gzipped addns.xml in repsitries which shuld cnsiderably reduce repsitry traffic
Changed: remve "add surce"frm Prgrams sectin

What is new in version 15.1 / 15.2 RC2 / 16.0 Alpha:

Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
Fix MicroDVD subtitles
Fix subtitles positioning below video
Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP

What is new in version 14.2 / 15.0 RC2:

Fix endless loop in PVR section which causes high CPU load
Fix crash on opening conext menu item
Fix sorting by episodes
Don't try to use hardware decoding for h264/10bit video files (don't confuse with h265/10bit)
Fix playback of certain HEVC files
Avoid freezing/deadlock in peripheralmanager
Fix genres in smartplaylists
Fix grouping by artists in smartplaylists
Fix video calibration for Android
Make sure to download the OBB file when Play Store doesn't
Some other technical changes....

What is new in version 14.2 / 15.0 Beta 1:

Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements.
Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
Improvement of installing new skins selection
Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
Removal of AFP filesystem support
Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as "skip steps"
Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
Improve webserver caching control
External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as "update library"
Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas.
Changed code to C++11
Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
On Android the system now handles the volume
General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features