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Kodi is a cross-platform, open source media player. Versions < 14.0 were called XBMC.

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. 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.

reference: About page from the Kodi website.

XBMC is the old name for what is now known as Kodi. XBMC is still the proper name if you are referring to an old version of the program (e.g., XBMC v13), but versions as of v14 and the project itself is known as Kodi.

reference: What is Kodi? What is XBMC? Intro FAQ on the Kodi wiki.

Kodi is a media player application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

Kodi has a comprehensive API, allowing 3rd party plugins and addons to be developed.

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WebRTC to Node.JS server and stream as RTP

I want to ask an experimental kind of question. So, I have a WebRTC stream, that needs to be player by XBMC/Kodi. I was planning this and I think the biggest problem is converting and sending the stream (note that this was without any prototyping…
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Java run linux(raspbian) command(omxplayer) and get output

I create a program as below to execute a linux (raspbian) command: "omxplayer". But I don't know why I cannot get output from omxplayer as the time I type it into command line and hit Enter.But the output only show at the end of the video. So I…
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how to convert from unicode to utf8 in python?

I'm working on my python script to extract the data from sqlite3 database for xbmc media application. I can see that in my code it will extract the data using the unicode object where I will have the strings (u', u and L. I want to convert it back…
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XBMC notification image (coming from IP cam) not updating

I have an XBMC box hooked up to my TV. In addition, I have 2 Foscam IP cameras, which I use for baby-monitoring my two little girls. A while back I thought it'd be cool to write a couple of scripts, so that when one of the Foscam's alarms triggers,…
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python error binding parameter 0 - probably unsupported type

I'm working on my python script using the version 2.6 for XBMC media application. I have got a problem with my python script, I'm getting an error: Error Contents: Error binding parameter 0 - probably unsupported type. The error are jumping on this…
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how to print the list of strings from the xml tags

I'm working on my python script to print the list of strings from my own xml file. I'm trying to find out how to print the list of strings from the programme-channel tag to get the format in the start="" and stop="" tags. When I'm trying to get the…
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Remotely run command in local X session?

I have an HTPC (with an HDTV as the monitor) running Ubuntu Karmic, and various other computers in the house. Sometimes I want to run X11 applications (usually, but not always, XBMC) on the HTPC displayed on the HDTV, but I don't want to have to…
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How to get currently playing item in XBMC?

I want to use json/rpc in order to get the currently playing item in the XBMC, I'm using the following commands for all the of player types: to getting the Active player : { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers", "id":…
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Print dict items in alphabet order

I'm working on my python script to dict the channels items every time when the items is inserted by using this code: channels = {} for elem in tv_elem.getchildren(): if elem.tag == 'channel': channels[elem.attrib['id']] =…
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how to check the value to overwritten them in xbmc?

I'm working on my python script as I would like to check on the value in the settings.xml that if they have the value is true or false. I want to check the value in xml file:
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XBMC PVR Add-on development documentation

I'm currently working on a PVR backend and frontend for XBMC and I was wondering where in the world to get started? From what I have been able to learn from the addon development wiki, there seems to be a great deal of difference between "normal"…
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How to get pixel colour from framebuffer on linux (Raspberry Pi)

I am trying to make a small program to control the colour of an RGB LED according to the colour of certain pixels on the screen. Since this is on Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc, I cant use XLib because everything is drawn from the frame buffer(not…
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Run XBMC plugins in a .net application

Is there any way to use xbmc plugins in .net? im thinking about those plugins that provide access to media content like GameTrailers and stuff like that..
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trying to start XBMC with a bash from BOXEE

Hi new to unix and bash programming. I am trying to make a simple startup script to have my boxee start up XBMC that is stored on a Memory card. I can start the commands by entering them in telnet, but if i call the test.sh script it wont allow me…
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Where are savec the add-on on raspberry with openelec xbmc

I want to edit some files in one add-on that is installed on the raspberry, so I want to access it trough ssh, but where is it? Thanks to help me :-)
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