Kodi (once in the past XBMC) is a free and open-source media player programming application created by the XBMC Foundation, a non-benefit innovation consortium. Kodi is accessible for numerous working frameworks and equipment stages, with a product 10-foot client interface for use with TVs and remote controls. It permits clients to play and view most gushing media, for example, recordings, music, podcasts, and recordings from the web, and also all regular computerized media documents from nearby and system stockpiling media. 

It is a mainstream multi-stage other option to Windows Media Center for HTPC (home theater PC) use. Kodi is very adaptable: an assortment of skins can change its appearance, and different modules permit clients to get to spilling media content by means of online administrations, for example, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Crackle, Pandora Internet Radio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and YouTube. The later forms likewise have PVR (individual video recorder) graphical front end for accepting live TV with electronic project guide (EPG) and top notch computerized video recorder (DVR) support. 

The product was initially delivered as an autonomously created (homebrew) media player application named Xbox Media Center (condensed as XBMC) for the original Xbox diversion console,and was later made accessible under the name Kodi (once in the past XBMC) as a local application for Android, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, iOS, and Microsoft Windows based working frameworks. It is likewise accessible as a standalone adaptation alluded to as Kodibuntu. 

In view of its open source and cross-stage nature, with its center code written in C++ (ANSI standard), changed adaptations of Kodi/XBMC together with a JeOS have been utilized as a product machine suite or programming structure in an assortment of gadgets including keen TVs, set-top boxes, advanced signage, lodging TV frameworks, system associated media players and implanted frameworks in light of armhf stage like Raspberry Pi. Subordinate applications, for example, MediaPortal, Plex, ToFu, Voddler, and Horizon TV have all at first been spun off from XBMC or Kodi. 

On 1 August 2014, it was reported that beginning with form 14, XBMC would formally be renamed Kodi. On 10 November 2015 the Kodi trademark was conceded to the XBMC Foundation.