Kodi Enters the Windows Store
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soryuuha
that rating in screencapture. so much win
Steppzor
Plex all the way!
vbetts
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Extraordinary
Be good for my tablet, but I`ll stick to the Win32 version for PC
Irenicus
Glimpsed the articly quickly but It seems to be saying you can't install Kodi on anything else but Win 10 which is incorrect. If I'm wrong, it's because I read it in a rush
EDIT: Re-read it and it still seems to say that exactly "Sadly Desktop Bridge doesn’t make it possible to run Kodi on anything else but a Windows 10 desktop computer or Surface." Not true - but I get they are trying to say you can't run it as a desktop bridge app - badly worded to say the least though.
I like kodi, it can be quite cool to use if choosing a movie with family members (easy to read plot and find movies/tv shows etc), but I still prefer K-Lite/MPC-HC for everyday use (which I find far superior, in every single way, to the app everyone is bound to mention on every thread - VLC). Each to their own though I guess
maikai
My guess is they mean it can't install on Windows 10 phone or Xbox? I don't know because I dot have a windows 10 phone and haven't bothered to check the Xbox store
Clouseau
How I read it was that one cannot run the version from the window's store on anything other than win 10. The version downloaded directly from their website will still run on other versions.
Extraordinary
It says it works on Desktop Win 10 machines, and the Surface running 10, so basically no WP10 or XBONE yet
tsunami231
TeX_UK
External HDD = win every time.
PrMinisterGR
It's just the Win32 app, managed in a sandbox using UWP. It's nice to keep a machine much more tidy like that (it's for all intents and purposes as "clean", or even "cleaner" like a Linux package manager), but it offers no other benefits.
maikai
sdamaged99
tsunami231
Santa666
Kodi
Kodi paired with Plexbmc -> so much win :infinity:
sykozis
lucidus
Will it use the user profile folder of the regular version of kodi? Is UWP Kodi hidden away in the windowsapps folder inaccessible without fiddling with permissions and ownership? It's kodi 17 beta too, it's a mess for me. Crashes and the UI stutters. Adding UWP on top should be funny.
Only "good" thing I can think of is a potential Xbone version but tbh my smart tv streams perfectly fine (dlna) from my PC in another room with no transcoding needed so I can't care less for a console version. Don't care for small screens either but for my iPad I once tried VLC to play from my kodi database, it worked but the iPad was too old and slow for that. Obviously UWP is no good on an iPad either.
d_mouse
sdamaged99
sammarbella
https://kodi.tv/about/
Kodi is a FREE and open source software who doesn't include anything illegal in his official channel of distribution.
Other ppl, as individuals or companies are interested in making money modifying it for illegal purposes.
[SPOILER] [/SPOILER]
The Piracy Box Sellers and Youtube Promoters Are Killing Kodi
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Warning – Be aware what additional add-ons you install
P.S.:I put the "wall of text" under spoilers. 🤓
I think the information on them worth a reading.
Do you mean entirely illegal?
Kodi is as legal as Windows itself.
MS still allow you to install software to download "evil" torrent files that you don't pay for in ANY Windows version and you can even use his own Media Player to watch these multimedia files.
AFAIK Kodi team put more effort against piracy than MS in his own Windows OS.
[SPOILER] [/SPOILER]