Here we refer to a open source project formerly known as XBMC that has been gaining followers all over the world over the years. Right now he could be considered one of the benchmarks in the multimedia sector when it comes to reproducing all kinds of content of this type. And it is that with Kodi on the PC we will have the opportunity to see our photos, access streaming television channels, play our videos, listen to music, etc.
In addition, to all this is added a very characteristic user interface of the program that looks like an independent operating system to the one that we have it installed. At the same time, this is a program that not only focuses on the reproduction of this content, but also offers us functions for managing all of it. To this we must add the possibility of install plugins or add-ons in order to increase its functionality or improve its appearance.
But of course, on certain occasions and if we take into account the factors when choosing a program with these characteristics, it is important to know the disk space it occupies. This is because, as we have mentioned before, the free space on disk drives is becoming more valuable.
Disk space consumed by conventional Kodi and UWP
Therefore, no matter how good a certain program is, sometimes we are not interested in having it installed for this reason. Precisely for all this, we are going to talk about the hard drive consumption which makes the media center popular and loved by many. To give you an idea, we will tell you that this is a program that a priori seems to consume much more space than it actually does.
So that we can get a rough idea of all this that we are telling you, first of all, we will talk about the conventional version that we downloaded from the official Kodi website. Once we have downloaded the corresponding executable and installed the application on our PC, the hard disk consumption at 140 or 150 megabytes. Of course, as we install new add-ons this consumption will increase, but not too much. Therefore, it could be considered as a space well used in most teams.
Also, if we make a backup of all settings of the program to be able to use it in the future, it will be around 40 meg. This way we can save it on any storage device as a backup copy of our Kodi profile with its corresponding personalized configuration.
With everything and with it, that is not the only version of the program with which we can do, for example, in Windows. If we opt for the UWP version that we downloaded from the Microsoft Store, here the consumption is somewhat higher. It must be said that from the outset this version of Kodi occupies around 290 megabytes, about twice as much as the conventional version. Despite all this, in most cases this is an application that is still worth having installed.
