Popular media player/streamer Plex lets you manage all the audio and video files on your device and stream them over the internet to another device. Have terabytes of videos on your desktop? Plex will let you watch them on your smartphone. Now Plex does more than let you manage your videos: you can use it […]
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Kodi releases a Raspberry Pi Case… and Kodi 17 nightlies
The Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive single-board computer that may have been designed for educators, students, and makers… but which has also proven popular among folks looking for a small, quiet computer that can be plugged into a TV. You’ve been able to install software like the Kodi media center app for ages… and […]
Kodi media center fork SPMC for Android is back (and may eventually be your only option)
Kodi is a popular, open source, cross-platform media center application that started its life as XBMC, a project aimed at turning the original Xbox game console into a media server for your TV. These days Kodi can run on all sorts of devices, including Linux, Windows, and OS X computers as well as Android and […]
Kodi media center gets a new look with new default skins for Kodi 17
Kodi is a cross-platform media center application designed to make your media look good on a TV that’s 10 feet away. Plug your computer into you TV, fire up Kodi, and you get a remote control-friendly user interface for navigating your music, movies, photos, and online media, among other things. But Kodi doesn’t offer just one […]
Cross-platform media center Kodi 16 released
The developers of popular, cross-platform media center Kodi have released version 16. While a lot improvements in the new version are technical, there are a few things you might notice. For example, there’s better support for 4K displays if you’re using Kodi on an Android device. There are improved tools to let you stay up to […]
Plex Media Player is a brand new home theater app from Plex
The folks at Plex offer a series of media tools that let you stream your local media library your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or TV thanks to a series of apps for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Roku, and other platforms. But Plex has also long offered a media player that you can install on a […]
How to install Windows Media Center on Windows 10 (unofficially)
Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 wouldn’t support Windows Media Center? Well, that’s only kind of true. While the latest version of Windows doesn’t ship with the software, it turns out you can install it… unofficially. The process for doing this isn’t officially supported by Microsoft, so there’s no way to know if it will work indefinitely. […]
Kodi 15.0 media center is now available
The developers of the Kodia cross-platform media center application have released Kodi 15. It’s now available for download for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and Android, as well as other platforms. Android users can also install Kodi from the Google Play Store. Kodi provides a full-screen user interface for navigating music, movies, photos, and other content. […]
WeTek OpenELEC Box is a $91 Kodi media center
OpenELEC is a Linux-based operating system designed to basically run one app: the Kodi media center. You can install OpenELEC on a PC to turn your computer into a multimedia device with a full-screen user interface for watching movies, streaming online video, listening to music, and performing other tasks. Now the folks behind OpeneELEC have teamed […]
Kodi 15 beta 2 released with better support for Android
The latest version of the Kodi media center application adds support for 4K video playback on select Android devices, features better support for storage on Android devices, and includes a number of other bug fixes and improvements for Android, Windows, Linux, OS X, and other platforms. Kodi 15 beta 2 is also the first release of the app […]