Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a home theater and media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. It is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, with a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the Internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage media.
| # | Minimum | Recommended |
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| 1 | CPU: x86 or x86-64 processor such as: Intel Pentium 4/ Pentium M, AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron, or newer CPU (that support SSE2, which all CPUs made within the last 10-years does).
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| 2 | RAM: 1GB or more in a HTPC media player appliance-like computer dedicated for Kodi | RAM: 2GB or more in a computer for multipurpose use |
| 3 | Graphics: AMD/Intel
| Graphics: AMD/ATI, Intel, or NVIDIA which support OpenGL 2.0 or later. AMD/Intel
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| 4 | Video decoding: See https://kodi.wiki/view/Supported_hardware#Linux. | |
| 5 | Drive space: The Kodi application generally only takes up between 100 to 200 MB of space, depending on how the binary is compiled. 4 to 8GB depending on how big your video library is. | Drive space: 16GB or more depending on how big your video library is. |
| # | Minimum |
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| 1 | Kodi v17 requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later |
| 2 | Kodi v18 (and its nightlies) will at least require 10.9) |
| 3 | All hardware requirements are the same as those for OS X 10.8. If your computer can run OS X 10.8 or later then your hardware should work just fine with Kodi |
| # | Minimum | Recommended |
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| 1 | OS: Windows 7 | OS: Windows 10 |
| 2 | CPU: x86 or x86-64 processor such as: Intel Pentium 4/ Pentium M, AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron, or newer CPU (that support SSE2, which all CPUs made within the last 10-years does).
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| 3 | RAM: 1GB or more in a HTPC media player appliance-like computer dedicated for Kodi | RAM: 2GB or more in a computer for multipurpose use |
| 4 | Graphics: GPU hardware must support at least level DirectX version 9.0c however the GPU software drivers must support the DirectX 11 Feature Level 9.1 (which means the DX11 API has been implemented in the GPU software driver to be compatible with DX9 hardware) | |
| 5 | Video decoding: On low-performance CPUs to playback 1080p content then hardware video decoding maybe necessary. See https://kodi.wiki/view/Supported_hardware#Windows for more. | |
| 6 | Drive space: The Kodi application generally only takes up between 100 to 200 MB of space, depending on how the binary is compiled. 4 to 8GB depending on how big your video library is. | Drive space: 16GB or more depending on how big your video library is. |
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