Editing Kodi (software) (section)

===Video playback===

====Video Library====
The Video Library, one of the Kodi [[metadata]] databases, is a key feature of Kodi. It allows the organization of video content by information associated with the video files (e.g., movies and recorded TV shows) themselves. This information can be obtained in various ways, like through scrapers (e.g., [[web scraping]] sites like IMDb, TheMovieDB, TheTVDB), and [[.nfo|nfo]] files. Automatically downloading and displaying movie posters and fan art backdrops as background wallpapers. The Library Mode view allows users to browse their video content by categories; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.<ref name="XBMC 9.11 makes your open source home theater look shinier" /><ref name="XBMC is the best media center application. Period." />

====Video player cores====
Kodi uses one multimedia video player "core" for video-playback. This video-player "core" for video-playback is an in-house developed cross-platform media player, "DVDPlayer", which was designed to play back [[DVD-Video]] movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code [[libdvdcss]] and libdvdnav). This [[FFmpeg]] based video-player "core" today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in [[ISO image|ISO and IMG]] DVD-images or DVD-Video ([[IFO file|IFO]]/[[VOB]]/[[.bup|BUP]]) images (even directly from uncompressed [[RAR (file format)|RAR]] and [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]] archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.<ref name="XBMC 9.11 makes your open source home theater look shinier" /><ref name="XBMC is the best media center application. Period." /><ref name="XBMC 9.04 delivers impressive media center experience" />