Kodi 20 is the new major version popular media center and after months of development, the final version has started to be deployed for supported platforms on its web portal as well as app stores/repositories.

In case you are not familiar with this media center, you should know that it is licensed under open source, cross-platform and completely free. If you’ve been using it for a long time, you’ll probably know it as XBMC and formerly as Xbox Media Center, as it was created for the first generation of Microsoft’s video game console.

Kodi supports a large number of video and audio formats, but it doesn’t just stop at reproduction from virtually any source and like a modern Media Center includes playlists, sound visualizations, slideshows, subtitles and much more. In addition, another of its great advantages flows from it plugin support in-house or from third parties that manage to extend their functionality to almost any multimedia aspect you need. Also pirated content, unintentionally, so had some issues in the past.

Kodi 20: News and Downloads

Codenamed ‘Nexus’, the new version brings a lot of improvements, changes, fixes and new features under the hood, which you can check out on their GitHub page. Among the main ones, we can highlight:

• AV1 video support.
• Full HDR support on Windows platforms.
• Extensive overhaul of the subtitle system.
• Loading multiple instances of a plugin binary.
• NFSv4 support,
• Improved context menu control.

You can download Kodi 20 on its web portal with versions for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, tvOS or the Raspberry Pi edition, which comes complete with a special case, the proceeds and donations of which are used to continue to improve this fantastic development. And because time doesn’t stand still in technology, Kodi v21 codenamed ‘Omega’ is already running.