It appears that a couple of developers have been able to port XBMC to the boxee box. It is still very early in development and is still VERY buggy, but it is an excellent start and hopefully development will progress quickly. Link to XBMC info screen shown on boxee box. Link forum post with first build github link (you will still need to build this from source if you download from github — check the docs folder for instructions)

I wouldn’t go out and buy a Boxee just to have Kodi. There are a gazillion better ways to do that. If you find yourself “stuck” with a virtually useless

Boxee, yes you can get it to take Kodi, but you might be better off picking up an Android box and installing openElec on it.

Die Ursache ist bislang noch unklar: Auf dem Kranzberg in Stolberg-Vicht musste die Feuerwehr in der Nacht zu Freitag einen Brand auf einer Fläche von knapp 400

I thought I would make a post to show all the live TV add-ons for people that visit the site. I have a lot of single posts which you can view but rather than making you trawl through my site to find the add-ons I thought it would be better to put them all on one page to make it easier for you.

If you want to bring a variety of content to your Kodi HTPC, you will be relying on addons to help you with this. There are some addons that are a must-have for Kodi, and are detailed in our 20 best Kodi addons list. If you are interested in specific topics, there are lists for the best IPTV addons for Kodi, as well as the best Kodi addons for kids. With these suggestions you will have a functional Kodi HTPC with a great content selection in no time. However, there are specific tastes and needs for content that are best covered with an addon that offers a targetted approach to the kind of shows and TV programs we want to see. In this regard, I invite you to take a look at this list, where we will mention and talk a little bit about the best Kodi sports addons available for your setup.

IPTV, by contrast, sends only one program at a time. Content remains on the service provider’s network and only the program the customer selects is sent to the home. When a viewer changes the channel, a new stream is transmitted from the provider’s server directly to the viewer. Like cable TV, IPTV requires a set-top box.

IPTV primarily uses multicasting with Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 2 for live television broadcasts and Real Time Streaming Protocol for on-demand programs. Compatible video compression standards include H.264, Windows Media Video 9 and VC1, DivX, XviD, Ogg Theora and the MPEG-2 and -4.

How it works

First things first: the venerable set-top box, on its way out in the cable world, will make a resurgence in IPTV systems. The box will connect to the home DSL line and is responsible for reassembling the packets into a coherent video stream and then decoding the contents. Your computer could do the same job, but most people still don’t have an always-on PC sitting beside the TV, so the box will make a comeback. Where will the box pull its picture from? To answer that question, let’s start at the source.

Most video enters the system at the telco’s national headend, where network feeds are pulled from satellites and encoded if necessary (often in MPEG-2, though H.264 and Windows Media are also possibilities). The video stream is broken up into IP packets and dumped into the telco’s core network, which is a massive IP network that handles all sorts of other traffic (data, voice, etc.) in addition to the video. Here the advantages of owning the entire network from stem to stern (as the telcos do) really come into play, since quality of service (QoS) tools can prioritize the video traffic to prevent delay or fragmentation of the signal. Without control of the network, this would be dicey, since QoS requests are not often recognized between operators. With end-to-end control, the telcos can guarantee enough bandwidth for their signal at all times, which is key to providing the “just works” reliability consumers have come to expect from their television sets.

Kodi stöder ett stort antal multimediaformat och har funktioner såsom spellistor, visualiseringar, bildspel, väderrapportering, samt en stor mängd med tredjepartsinsticksprogram. Som ett mediecenter kan Kodi spela de allra flesta ljud- och bildformat och läsa multimedia från nästan alla källor, inklusive cd, dvd, USB-minnen, internet, lokalt nätverk och den egna hårddisken. Kodi är ett hobbyprojekt och utvecklas enbart av frivilliga. Då mjukvaran inte är understödd på något sätt av Microsoft krävde XBMC ett modchip eller en softmod för att kunna fungera på en Xbox-spel-konsol, och numera stöder Kodi inte Xbox längre.

No matter how well-designed a network may be or how rigorous its QoS controls are, there is always the possibility of errors creeping into the video stream. For unicast streams, this is less of an issue; the set-top box can simply request that the server resend lost or corrupted packets. With multicast streams, it is much more important to ensure that the network is well-engineered from beginning to end, as the user’s set-top box only subscribes to the stream — it can make no requests for additional information. To overcome this problem, multicast streams incorporate a variety of error correction measures such as forward error correction (FEC), in which redundant packets are transmitted as part of the stream. Again, this is a case where owning the entire network is important since it allows a company to do everything in its power to guarantee the safe delivery of streams from one end of the network to the other without relying on third parties or the public Internet.

Though multicast technology provides the answer to the problem of pumping the same content out to millions of subscribers at the same time, it does not help with features such as video on demand, which require a unique stream to the user’s home. To support VoD and other services, the local office can also generate a unicast stream that targets a particular home and draws from the content on the local VoD server. This stream is typically controlled by the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), which enables DVD-style control over a multimedia stream and allows users to play, pause, and stop the program they are watching.

The actual number of simultaneous video streams sent from the local office to the consumer varies by network, but is rarely more than four. The reason is bandwidth. A Windows Media-encoded stream, for instance, takes up 1.0 to 1.5Mbps for SDTV, which is no problem; ten channels could be sent at once with bandwidth left over for voice and data. But when HDTV enters the picture, it’s a different story, and the 20–25Mbps capacity of the line gets eaten up fast. At 1080i, HDTV bit rates using Windows Media are in the 7 to 8 Mbps range (rates for H.264 are similar). A quick calculation tells you that a couple of channels are all that can be supported.

The bandwidth situation is even worse when you consider MPEG-2, which has lower compression ratios. MPEG-2 streams will require almost twice the space (3.5 Mbps for SDTV, 18–20 Mbps for HDTV), and the increased compression found in the newer codecs is one reason that AT&T will not use MPEG-2 in the rollout of its IPTV service dubbed “U-verse.”

Simultaneous delivery of channels is necessary to keep IPTV competitive with cable. Obviously, multiple streams are needed to support picture-in-picture, but they’re also needed by DVRs, which can record one show while a user is watching another. For IPTV to become a viable whole-house solution, it will also need to support enough simultaneous channels to allow televisions in different rooms to display different content, and juggling resulting bandwidth issues is one of the trickiest parts of implementing an IPTV network that will be attractive to consumers