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in the centre of the screen or press Enter, and then choose Video Add-ons from the options
that appear. his provides access to your installed add-ons. Click on one to download a list of
iles for viewing. If an add-on has various categories, it will download those categories irst—
in this case, click on an individual category to see the iles it contains (see Figure 7-4).
Figure 7-4:
A list of videos
available
through the
CollegeHumor
Xbmc add-on
Similar add-ons are available under the Music and Video menus, and operate in the same
way. Using these add-ons, you can view picture content and stream audio content from sites
such as Flickr, Picasa, he Big Picture, Grooveshark, Sky.fm and SoundCloud.
Streaming Local Network Media
he Xbmc software supports the
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
media streaming standard,
allowing it to connect to a range of devices on your home network. UPnP support is included in
most modern mobile phones, games consoles and
network-attached storage (NAS)
devices for
sharing and streaming videos, music and pictures. Many laptops and desktops also come with
support for UPnP or the closely linked
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
standard—check
your documentation to ind out how to enable this feature on your own devices.
