i hear young people talking about this. is it a torrent site or just a media platform?
shareIt's a program that allows you to use your computer as a media theater. You can browse through your movie or series collection. And you can use different skins. Love it.
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I use Kodi to set up a computer for my son movies when he was 5. He then can select the movie he wanted himself by selecting the cover image because at the time he hadn't mastered reading.
shareso it's legal?
shareOf course. You will need to supply your own movie files. What Kodi does just arrange them and adding the cover images and other information tidbits (director, actors, etc.) automatically. It also provides search functionality, sorting by title, year, genre, etc., rating system, and grouping of films.
It's basically just a Windows Explorer but designed for movies / tv shows.
its primarily used for piracy
with the right add-ons it will give u movies and tv shows hosted on piracy sites
last time i tried it it didnt work that well, lots of dead links and buffering
anything kodi did can be done in a browser
https://kodi.tv/download
i thought so.
shareyeah its an open source media server. theres also a fork of it called plex.
i took all my dvds converted them to video files and also hooked my live cable tv and can stream them to anywhere i'd like. the servers can download cover art and theme music, etc and basically you have your own private netflix
any programmer can make a plugin for it because its open source. some plugins that attach to it can stream from pirate sites. but thats not officially supported.
> i took all my dvds converted them to video files
I used to be able to do this when I had a PC and an old program called DVDXcopy I think it was.
That was a long time ago, and you have to hood in some kind of decrypter that you updated
every so often. Now I have all Macs and I have no idea how to copy my DVDs that I never
even watch any more because it is too much trouble to set it all up. Any ideas how to do
that on a Mac?
I don't use a Mac. But can't you simply copy the .VOB files? VOB stands for "Video OBject" and it's the video file in a DVD. Typically resides in the VIDEO_TS folder.
The other files are just menus, close captioning, extra features, etc. If you only need to watch the movie, and not intending to make a complete reproduction of the DVD disc, that's the only file you need.
Yes, I can do that on DVDs that are not copy-encoded, but on commercial DVD movies I don't think that works. I actually have not tried that, so I will do that, but I don't think it will work, unless somewhere down the line is decryption software. I know the .VOB files can be sucked in by some video conversion programs or editing programs so if I could get to an uncopy-protected .VOB I would be set.
shareFor DVD VOBs, libdvdcss unwraps CSS encryptions on the fly.
BD is a different kind of beast, often tamed in the drive's firmware.
as plusplus just said you need "libdvdcss" installed to decrypt and a program like Handbrake to rip.
shareIt's a media center software, formerly known as XBMC ("XBox Media Center"). Originally, it was a media center made for the first XBox. Nowadays, it runs virtually everywhere.
Besides its origins as a media center, it has evolved into a generic IPTV client, running almost everywhere. For example:
Instead of going for a sat multiswitch and extra coaxial cables, I've simply connected one Unicable line per LNB (1 LNB per position) to a central Intel NUC, equipped with 16 FBC tuners. All tuning, user management, maintenance, decryption and transcoding (if needed) is configured centrally in the web frontends of "tvheadend" and OSCam on this NUC. Kodi also is a tvheadend client. Now, clients only need a network connection and kodi - either running natively on the TV or by adding a capable dongle (FireTV, Raspberry Pi).
Using OpenVPN, I always have access to all channels like at home, as long as there's enough bandwidth for the lowest transcoding profile. I actually hate hotel room TVs and prefer kodi on my notebook.
But this is not exactly why it's so popular among younger people, they're not that much into linear TV. What they care more about is the "Video Add-ons" category. It's a type of plugin to conveniently access web streaming contents. All plugins you'll find in official repositories are legal. It's the 3rd party repos where the "Top 10 Addons of the month" come from.
Another legal example: Watching Disney+, Netflix and PrimeVideo on a recent Enigma2 receiver. Natively, most of them don't support it. Using kodi on such receivers, you can install Video Add-ons and use them - limited to 720p (it's actually a widewine restriction).
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shareAccess to vast amounts of TV and movies ... 25% of which will actually work when you try. However, it is reliable for new TV shows for he most part. I use an android box with Kodi on it hooked up to my android TV. Between it, ESPN+, and Apple TV, I watch everything I want with only a few exceptions. I but DVDs of what I cannot get from them.
shareWorks 25% of the time. That doesn't sound good.
shareWorks 95% of the time if it is a current popular show. We looked up "Hardy Boys" TV show and found every season of it. none of them worked. But it plays more than half of many other old shows like Three's Company Too and Brady Bunch. But the list of esoteric titles closer to Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew is very long and are the primary reason 25% is the number I use. If what you want to watch is in the top 20 most watched shows then Kodi will only let you down occasionally.
Right now I can watch Daredevil seasons 1 and 2 with no problem and only occasional buffering issues. Season 3 will not play at all.