XBMC - Current Software Limitations

Current Software Limitations

This is a list of software limitations currently in the XBMC source code.

  • XBMC's own internal cross-platform video and audio players (DVDPlayer and PAPlayer) can not play any audio or video files that are protected/encrypted with DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies for access control, meaning audio files purchased from online music stores as iTunes Music Store, MSN Music, Audible.com, Windows Media Player Stores, and video files protected with Windows Media DRM or DivX proprietary DRM. Other than using an 'external' third-party media-player, a workaround to this is to first remove any DRM protection/encryption from the music or video file with a third-party program before trying to play it in XBMC.
  • Without using a third-party plugin there is currently no TV-tuner support as of May 2010, although full PVR support is currently being developed by XBMC team developers.
  • XBMC does not currently support binary addons from third-party developers. Today XBMC only support addons written in python script language that are interpreted by the Python engine that XBMC is using.

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