10 Facts About XBMC

Kodi has attracted negative attention due to the availability of USB plug-ins for the software that facilitate unauthorized access to copyrighted media content, as well as "fully loaded" digital media players that are pre-loaded with such add-ons; The XBMC Foundation has not endorsed any of these uses, and has taken steps to disassociate the Kodi project from these add-ons, including threatening legal action against those using its trademarks to promote them.

The Xbox version of XBMC had the ability to launch console games, and homebrew applications such as emulators.

However, while this feature was fully functioning on the Xbox version of XBMC, it is still in its infant stage on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, thus requiring third-party launcher plugins to function properly.

In recent releases of Kodi-XBMC there is hardware accelerated video decoding for DXVA, VDPAU, VA-API GPU hardware video decoding, as well as hardware accelerated video decoding via ARM NEON, and OpenMAX, Broadcom Crystal HD.

Many of these third-party forks and derivative work of Kodi-XBMC are said to still assist with submitting bug fixes upstream and sometimes help getting new features backported to the original Kodi-XBMC project so that others can utilize it as well, shared from one main source.

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However some which was initially a fork of XBMC have since fully or partially been rewritten to use closed source proprietary software.

The first stable release of XBMC was on 29 June 2004, with the official release of Xbox Media Center 1.

On 29 May 2007, the team behind XBMC put out a call for developers interested in porting XBMC to the Linux operating system.

On 2 January 2011, XBMC moved the source code repository from subversion to git, hosted at GitHub.

XBMC Foundation is the organization behind the Kodi and XBMC projects.