Multimedia content has become common in the times we are living in, largely thanks to the power of the equipment. These, unlike just a few years ago, allow us to work with high-quality videos or photos without any problem. In addition to this we must add the quality software that we can use for this, as is the case of the popular Kodi .
While at first it was the audio files and images that became an important part of our work with the PC, this gave way to video. As we mentioned, largely thanks to the hardware that is part of a good part of the equipment now, we can carry out all kinds of work with them. Thus, we have the opportunity to play videos , share them, convert them, edit them, etc.
In addition, and how could it be otherwise, all this is something that is extended to music or files related to photography. As we mentioned before, this is something that we can take advantage of with video-centric content. This includes our own archives, movies and series, etc. Well, in order to work with all this in the most appropriate way, we can always use certain specific programs. But in these lines we are going to focus on a multimedia center that allows us to deal with all these types in an efficient way.
Specifically, we refer to Kodi, a software that has been accompanying us for years and that does not stop gaining followers.
Advantages of Kodi over other multimedia programs
There are several points that have directly influenced the success of this specific alternative. Here we can highlight that we can use it on practically any device or operating system . It is also an open source software that does not stop growing and improving over the years. To all this we must add the enormous functionality that it presents, both with local content and online.
From here we will have the possibility to deal with video files, music , photos, television channels, streaming content, games or radio stations. We are going to manage all of this through its innumerable menus, something that we access from the main interface of the program. It not only focuses on the reproduction of these contents as such, since at the same time it allows its management to order them in the best way.
However, this is a software that on many occasions has been surrounded by some controversy. This refers to one of its most representative elements, add-ons or complements. These are small pieces of software that are added to Kodi to increase its functionality. But you have to know that the program as such is completely legal. The il-legality in this sense is given by those illicit add-ons and by the users who use them.
Install add-ons on Kodi from the repository
At this point, it should be mentioned that a good part of the add-ons that we can install in the program are totally legal and lawful. That is why below we are going to show you step by step how to achieve this that we are talking about. Therefore, the first thing we do here is open the program in a conventional way.
Then we will find a main interface , so to install a new add-on, we must hover over the menu item called Add-ons. This is located on the left side of the start window, but we must not press, just place the pointer. New options will appear, so in this case we opted for Installing from a repository.
This will give way to a series of categories that correspond to those that the program itself makes available to us. This will give us access to the long list of add-ons that Kodi presents us so that we can install them at that moment. To say that these categories to which we refer will make things much easier for us when it comes to finding what we are looking for now. Among these we can highlight some as important as add-ons music, video, software, appearance, Weather, lyrics, games, etc.
As you can imagine, at that moment all we have to do is click on the category that interests us. That will lead us to a new list, now with the add-ons that the program presents and that we can install. For example, if we click on the videos section, we find elements that refer to a multitude of video platforms and channels, all of them legal and free to use. Therefore, at this point, all we have to do is click on the selected one, and install it in the program itself from the Install button.
Install add-ons from a ZIP
This that we have shown you, will help us when it comes to getting these add-ons from the Kodi repository itself. But it can also be the case, quite common, by the way, that we have downloaded it from the Internet. Say that as a general rule we will find these in the form of compressed files, specifically in ZIP .
Thus, we only have to save them in the disk location that interests us the most. After that, we open Kodi again as before, and we also go to the Add-ons option on the initial interface of the program. However, in this case, instead of clicking on Install from a repository, we choose Install from a .zip file. It will ask us to activate the installation of these elements but of unknown origins, something that Kodi itself directs us to activate it.
Therefore, once we activate this in the program at our own risk, we will be able to navigate through the disk drives to select the ZIP in question that we downloaded from the Internet before. In fact, from here we can deal with external and network drives from where we can add the add-ons stored over time.
