Kodi Media Center
Want to listen to music and watch videos and movies or you favorite IP TV on your home wireless network?
Kodi is the ultimate solution for all users who want to manage their images, music collection, and video files on a PC while still being able to play content on another desktop, laptop, or TV.
In Addition: Kodi doesn't cost a cent. The functionality has grown over the years and expanded with powerful tools, free add-ons enhance additional features. The great thing is that Kodi downloads information, posters and background graphics from the Internet and includes them in the database. If Kodi does not correctly recognize a movie or series, you can fix the error manually
what make it so popular ?
the software is available for Raspberry Pi, as well as tablets, NAS systems, smartphones and set-top boxes that run on the Android OS .
We'll show you how to install Kodi on Linux, configure settings, and write media files to a database to expand more information and stream on a Wi-Fi network.
kodi is highly customized using it own themes and ad-dons.
A categorized listing of all add-ons in the Kodi Official Repository.
You can use your Android or iOS gadget as a remote control. This makes navigation extremely easy. To do this, install one of two free apps: Official Kodi Remote for iOS or Kodi Remote for Android.
Kodi is a free and open source media player application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
Install on linux ?
on Ubuntu, linux mint, elementary OS, Debian and other apt based packaging system
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt install kodi
Via Flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta tv.kodi.Kodi