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GeeXboX is a free and open-source Live USB/Live CD based Linux distribution providing a home theater PC (HTPC) software suite for x86 personal and embedded ARM devices. Based on the OpenBricks framework, the GeeXboX distro comes since version 2.0 with a pre-configured version of XBMC media center as its main media player and GUI font-end.
LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a Linux-based Just enough operating system for the Kodi media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active ...
Plex, a cross-platform and open source (GPL) software media player and a closed source media server and entertainment hub, available for macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, as well as mobile clients for iOS (including Apple TV (2nd generation) onwards), Android, and Windows Phone. The desktop version of the media player is free while the mobile ...
Runs on Windows, OSX, Linux, and Android. Features similar to Plex or Kodi. Closed source. Kodi Entertainment Center (formerly XBMC / Xbox Media Center) XBMC Foundation: Kodi/XBMC is royalty-free and cross-platform. The core code is written in C++ and is open-source licensed under GNU GPL v2.
Kodi has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a 3D capable graphics hardware controller for all rendering. Powerful 3D GPU chips are common today in most modern computer platforms, including many set-top boxes, and XBMC, now Kodi, was from the start designed to be otherwise very resource-efficient, for being as powerful and versatile a ...
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container, [2] and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV ...
Kodi (formerly XBMC) GPL Free Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [h] Yes No Yes Yes Yes C++ Yes Yes KooRaRoo Media: Prop. Non-free [4] Yes [5] Yes [6] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes C++ Yes [i] Yes LimboMedia: Prop. Free Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Java Yes Yes LXiMedia: GPL Free Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, mandatory Yes Yes Unknown C++ Yes No ...
Emby (formerly Media Browser) [2] is a media server designed to organize, play, and stream audio and video to a variety of devices. [3] Emby's source code was mostly open with some closed-source components as of August 2017, [4] releases of the software published via the Emby website are however proprietary [5] and cannot be replicated from source due to the build scripts also being proprietary.