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Welcome to Kodi!

Kodi is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player andentertainment hub for digital media. Kodi is available for multiple platforms.Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, Kodi is a non-profitproject run and developed by volunteers located around the world.More than 450 software developers have contributed to Kodi to date, and 100-plustranslators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in morethan 65 languages.

While Kodi functions very well as a standard media player application for yourcomputer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC.Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with itsbeautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, Kodi feels very natural touse from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.

Currently Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formatsaround. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimediafrom anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically anyprotocol available.

Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CD's and DVD's directlyfrom the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your harddrive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all ofyour media and automatically create a personalized library complete with boxcovers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, aweather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, yourcomputer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

See [docs/README.xxx] (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master/docs) for specific platform build information.

• [Contributing] (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
• [Submitting a patch] (http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO_submit_a_patch)
• [Code guidelines] (http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Code_guidelines_and_formatting_conventions)
• [Kodi development] (http://kodi.wiki/view/Development)

• [Kodi wiki] (http://kodi.wiki/)
• [Kodi bug tracker] (http://trac.kodi.tv)
• [Kodi community forums] (http://forum.kodi.tv/)
• [Kodi website] (http://kodi.tv)

Enjoy Kodi and help us improve it today. :)