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What is Kodi? Kodi® (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games,

What is Kodi? Kodi® (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. --- Seems like a Plex replacement?

karlshea 10y ago
Plex began as a fork of XBMC/Kodi.
sandworm101 10y ago
One question: Can it play standard media files stored on encrypted USB drives? (ie ext4 or any similar format) I'd kill for a media player that could. I think such drives are the one place I'm not fully encrypted.
- sp332 10y ago
  It's just the media player. It would be up to the OS and filesystem drivers to handle the decryption.
- patrickk 10y ago
  http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_support http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_...
- Nullabillity 10y ago
  It runs on top of your regular OS (usually Linux for dedicated players), so yes.
  - sandworm101 10y ago
    So if it is running linux then it should be able to mount ext4 drives ... so long as there is some sort of interface to accept keyboard input. And, of course, no ridiculous retransmission or caching of said keyboard inputs. This comes up sometimes in my day job where on occasion I want to play something on a USB drive (to a projector/scree) but hesitate to save it unencrypted. ATM I often carry two laptops to accomplish this, but would much rather travel with one laptop and one tiny media player.
    - Nullabillity 10y ago
      Yup. You can run it either standalone (perhaps with an automounting script in the background, that uses a hardcoded key?) or inside your regular desktop environment (in which case that probably has a solution for mounting the drive).
    - TheLilHipster 10y ago
      I'd recommend Plex instead. It's effectively a simpler, more polished version of KODI. (IMO)
sp332 10y ago
XBMC used to mean Xbox Media Center, and it targeted original Xbox hardware. It branched out to run on other machines and eventually dropped compatibility for original XB hardware. So it's a much older project.

karlshea 10y ago

Plex began as a fork of XBMC/Kodi.

sandworm101 10y ago

One question: Can it play standard media files stored on encrypted USB drives? (ie ext4 or any similar format) I'd kill for a media player that could. I think such drives are the one place I'm not fully encrypted.

sp332 10y ago
It's just the media player. It would be up to the OS and filesystem drivers to handle the decryption.
patrickk 10y ago
http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_support http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_...
Nullabillity 10y ago
It runs on top of your regular OS (usually Linux for dedicated players), so yes.
- sandworm101 10y ago
  So if it is running linux then it should be able to mount ext4 drives ... so long as there is some sort of interface to accept keyboard input. And, of course, no ridiculous retransmission or caching of said keyboard inputs. This comes up sometimes in my day job where on occasion I want to play something on a USB drive (to a projector/scree) but hesitate to save it unencrypted. ATM I often carry two laptops to accomplish this, but would much rather travel with one laptop and one tiny media player.
  - Nullabillity 10y ago
    Yup. You can run it either standalone (perhaps with an automounting script in the background, that uses a hardcoded key?) or inside your regular desktop environment (in which case that probably has a solution for mounting the drive).
  - TheLilHipster 10y ago
    I'd recommend Plex instead. It's effectively a simpler, more polished version of KODI. (IMO)

sp332 10y ago

XBMC used to mean Xbox Media Center, and it targeted original Xbox hardware. It branched out to run on other machines and eventually dropped compatibility for original XB hardware. So it's a much older project.