This is list of software projects or products that are third-party source code ports, modified forks, or derivative work directly based on Kodi (formerly XBMC), an open source media center application and entertainment platform developed by the non-profit technology consortium XBMC Foundation.
Kodi/XBMC is royalty-free and cross-platform software. The core code is written in C++ and is free and open-source software licensed under GNU General Public License version 2 (GNU GPL v2). It offers the possibility for easy rebranding by an original design manufacturer (ODM) or original equipment manufacturer (OEM), with customizing of interface look and feel using skins, and simple plug-ins from third-party developers, available via Python scripts for content extensions. Thus, many systems integrators have created modified versions of Kodi, along with a just enough operating system (JeOS) that are mostly used as a software appliance suite in a variety of devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, digital signage, hotel television systems, in-flight entertainment platforms, frontend for pay-TV operators using IPTV or Pay-per-view, and network connected digital media players.
Popular derivative applications and devices such as MediaPortal, Plex, LibreELEC, OpenELEC, ToFu, Boxee, Horizon TV, and PrismCube have all initially been spun off from Kodi’s code base as their main software framework to create new digital ecosystems.
9x9 Player for 9x9CloudTV 9x9 Player, by Santa Clara, CA based 9x9Network, is an open source software media player client for 9x9Network's 9x9CloudTV peer-to-peer TV delivery network over internet. The frontend of this media player client uses XBMC's source code as its application framework platform, and 9x9Network as a company also used to be an official sponsor of the XBMC development project.
Boxee
Boxee, made by startup company Boxee Inc., is a freeware and partly open source software cross-platform media center and entertainment hub with social networking features that is a commercial fork of XBMC software. Boxee supported Windows, Linux, and OS X, with the first Alpha made available on 16 June 2008. Boxee as a company was a former sponsor of the XBMC development project. The last version was 1.5. There will be no more versions of the desktop versions, with new emphasis on the Boxee Box. Boxee later stopped all development of their XBMC fork with their new hardware box, Boxee TV, which uses closed source software. Boxee as a company also used to be an official sponsor of the official XBMC development project. Boxee will be joining Samsung on 10 July 2013.
Crystalbuntu Crystalbuntu is an XBMC and Ubuntu-based Linux distribution operating system designed specifically made for and solely optimized for the first-generation Apple TV (a.k.a. the 'silver' Apple TV 1 and ATV1), these software firmware images and XBMC fork is maintained by its main developer, created by Sam Nazarko (who is also the developer of Raspbmc and LinXBMC).
DVDFab Media Player DVDFab Media Player by Fengtao Software Inc. is a media player software for Windows, based on the XBMC source code. DVDFab Media Player can play encrypted and DRM-protected Blu-ray Discs for 60-days for free before it has to be licensed to enable that feature again. It can however playback unencrypted and Blu-ray ISO-images, folders, and other DRM-free media files without a license.http://forum.dvdfab.com/showthread.php?t=16722 DVDFab Media Player 1.0.0.1 Beta is outhttp://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=123801 DVDFab Media Player - solution for Blu-ray playback
E2BMC E2BMC is a XBMC-based software platform for DVR/PVR set-top boxes on-top embedded Linux hardware systems, designed as a hybrid integration between XBMC media center software and Dreambox's Enigma2 PVR software scripts, with OpenPLi (OpenEmbedded based Linux operating system for embedded systems) open source set-top box firmware images. "MK-Digital Cube" and "D-Cube R2" were the two first E2BMC based set-to boxes announced, and both was released in Q1 in 2014.
Mutant HD2400 or Opticum AX Quadbox HD 2400 are two new announced E2BMC box expected to be released in October 2014, and unlike prior ARM SoCs based E2BMC box, these new boxes are based on Broadcom BCM7424 MIPS chips.
The OpenATV Team, known for its community driven firmware images for Enigma2 based set top-boxes from Dreambox and Vu+, has promised to develop third-party OpenATV (also OpenEmbedded based) firmware images with XBMC for E2BMC compatible set-top boxes based on ARM and MIPS architectures.
EmbER (formerly MX Linux) Embedded Entertainment ROM (EmbER), formerly MX Linux, renamed after merger with the TinyHTPC project, is a free and open-source embedded Linux operating system, designed solely to run Kodi/XBMC Media Center with a minimum JeOS appliance OS on Android set-top boxes based on Amlogic's ARM chipsets. Similar OpenELEC, EmbER ROM images provides a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of Kodi/XBMC and third-party addons for hardware management and over-the-air updates.http://ember-dev.com EmbER "Embedded Entertainment ROM" official websitehttps://github.com/EmbER-Dev/EmbER EmbER - Open Source XBMC OS for Amlogichttps://github.com/EmbER-Dev/Kodi Kodi/Xbmc for Amlogic platformshttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418029 EmbER for Amlogic based Tv-Box'shttp://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=180446 [HOW TO] KODI Linux on Geniatech Devices incl. Helix Builds
EzeeCube by Ezee Systems EzeeCube, by Ezee Systems Limited, is a set-top box media player that has a unique modular design made of stackable units. The hardware is based on Freescale i.MX6 SoC series, the operating-system is a Yocto-based embedded Linux which runs a custom forked version of XBMC/Kodi. It ran a successful crowd-source campaign in the later half of 2014, and finally began shipping the final product in June 2015.http://www.ezeecube.com EzeeCube Official Product Websitehttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ezeecube-the-first-expandable-smart-media-centre EzeeCube - The First Expandable Smart Media Centrehttps://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/ezeecube/ Ezeecube Is A Stackable, All Inclusive Media Center For Your Homehttp://www.stuff.tv/news/stackable-storage-makes-expanding-ezeecube-media-center-breeze Stackable storage makes expanding the EzeeCube media center a breezehttps://www.engadget.com/2014/07/04/ezeecube-retro-gaming-stackable-media-hub/ This stackable media hub plays your old 16-bit game cartridges
GeeXboX
GeeXboX is a free and open-source Live USB/Live CD based Linux distribution providing a home theater PC (HTPC) software suite for x86 personal and embedded ARM devices. Based on the OpenBricks framework, the GeeXboX distro comes since version 2.0 with a pre-configured version of XBMC media center as its main media player and GUI font-end.
Horizon TV by Liberty Global
Horizon TV by Liberty Global (first-generation Horizon TV only), is a cross-platform media platform and DVB-C 6 tuner high-definition DVR/PVR set-top-box, (with hardware made by Samsung as model SMT-G7400), which runs native XBMC as its main media center GUI interface atop Linux for embedded systems, along with a hidden proprietary middleware framework for video on demand and handling DRM for streaming multimedia.http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=T&menu_item=tv_n_video&classification1=set-top_box Samsung Opensource Release Center TV & Video Set-top Box SMT-G7400 It was first announced in September 2012, and it is also available from Dutch cable operation UPC Netherlands under the brand name "UPC Horizon TV".http://www.libertyglobal.com/PDF/horizon/Horizon-TV-FINAL.pdf Liberty Global Launches Horizon TV
Liberty Global, branded as "UPC" in Europe and worldwide better known as simply "Liberty", is since 2013, the world's largest international cable company, with operations in 14 countries, with Horizon TV being its flagship platform with more than 10 million first-generation Horizon TV devices sold.
LeMedia by LeMaker LeMedia by LeMaker is a Linux-based OS distribution designed that comes with a forked version of Kodi. It is mainly optimized for its Banana Pi, Banana Pro, and LeMaker Guitar single-board-computers (which are built on ARM-based SoCs from Allwinner and Actions Semi). LeMedia OS software firmware image is a fork of Debian Linux.http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=239155 New SBC board running Kodihttp://www.lemaker.org/article-46-1.html LeMaker Guitar
LibreELEC
Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (LibreELEC) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source just enough OS (JeOS) Linux software appliance distro for Kodi. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.
MediaPortal
MediaPortal is free and open-source software media center written for Microsoft Windows that is initially based on forked XBMC source code by Erwin Beckers (a.k.a. Frodo, who was also one of the original founders of XBMC) in February 2004. The reason for this fork to Microsoft Windows was to get away from hardware and software platform limitations of the Xbox game-console platform that XBMC development started on, mainly because of the Xbox inability to support TV-tuner adapters natively as Erwin wanted PVR functionality. Now after several years and innumerable feature changes there has been almost a complete re-design of the source code, however the skinning engine of MediaPortal 1.X.X still remains very similar to that of the original XBMC software making it relatively easy for people to port skins/themes back and forth between the two projects, something that is done quite frequently.
MeeGo TV
MeeGo TV was the MeeGo TV stack SDK (Software Development Kit) for Smart TV developing platform, as a specialized branch of the MeeGo (Linux-based) open source mobile operating system.https://meego.com/devices/smart-tv MeeGo - Smart TVhttp://www.madeo.co.uk/?p=947 MeeGo TV 1.2.2 xbmc-gles This Meego TV stack provided a GPLv2 compatible "OBS Light" (openSUSE's Open Build Service for clientshttp://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OBS_Light openSUSE OBS Light) based SDK that used a derivative fork of XBMC media center software for embedded systems appliance devices.http://xbmc.in/2012/06/20/meego-tv-tizen-obs-light/ Meego TV – Tizen OBS Light MeeGo and its Smart TV development platform was founded by the Linux Foundation, Intel, and AMD.
MrMC MrMC is an open source for-profit media player and media center software that is a stripped fork of Kodi, made by former XBMC developers Davilla and Amet and now joined to the project "koying" (the spmc fork developer). So far it has been released for iOS and tvOS as their first platforms, and Android (including Amazon App Store for Fire TV/Fire OS) as its second platform, with plans to also support other platforms such as Linux, OS X, and Tizen, which releases will come later.
ONEvision by at-visions ONEvision, by at-visions Informationstechnologie GmbH, (an international system integration and IT outsourcing firm for hotels), is a commercial fork of XBMC for use as hotel television system software in hotel environments and in the hospitality industry for in-room entertainment. It offers a platform for in-room service bookings and an IPTV interface, with custom theme branding. ONEvision is currently used throughout Europe and Asia at hotels such as Hyatt EMEA, Ramada Vienna, RIMC International, DWA Bratanki, Rogner International, EH&A, Heritage Hotel Hallstatt, St. Martins Therme, and Heiltherme Bad Waltersdorf. , at-visions as a company is also an official sponsor of the XBMC development project.Apple TV Jailbreaking based on XBMC
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