Releases - Official Kodi Wiki. Release history This is a release history with condensed changelogs for the most important added or removed notable new features, functions, and changed in each stable version of Kodi. H. 2. 65 software video decoding. Improved support for H. Hi. 10. P) multi- threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used.
Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC/Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.
Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec libraries to release version FFmpeg 2. Removed FFmpeg from from the Kodi code tree, making it easier to compile/build separately. Improved network and file system reading when scanning files and searching for subtitles. Improved Music. Brainz tags support to the Music Library and Database.
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Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality. Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster library browsing. Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi from the community. Added support for Planar Formats and PTS audio synchronization from player in Active. AE. Improved the default cross- platform event driven active state machine pattern Active. AE (Kodi's Audio.
Engine). Improved ALSA sink for Active. AE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems. Improved Pulse. Audio sink for Active. AE for Linux Desktop.
Improved OSS (Open Sound System) sink for Active. AE for BSD, like Free. BSD and similar BSD Unix based systems.
Improved AUDIOTRACK sink for Active. AE for Amlogic. Improved Pi Audio sink for Active. AE for Raspberry Pi.
Improved Direct. Sound sink for Active. AE for Windows. Improved WASAPI sink for Active. AE for Windows. Improved Core. Audio sink for Active. AE for Mac OS X and i. OS. Improved Darwin sink for Active.
AE for Mac OS X and i. OS. Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse- Eight's Lib. CEC. Upgraded DVD- Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss). Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3. SMB and CIFS protocols. Updated community maintained translations to over 6. Kodi via Transifex Translation System.
Improved Media. Codec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4. API level 1. 6) and later. Improved Stage. Fright API video decoding implementations support for Android 4. API level 1. 4). Improved the dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for AMLogic devices.
Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture. Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on Free. BSD, PC- BSD, and other similar BSD platforms. Added initial optional X1. EGL (EGL- X1. 1) based systems on Linux, full- screen mode only. Added native Xv. BA accelerated video decoding for AMD/ATI GPUs on Linux. Improved ARM processor architecture (using We.
Tek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices). Improved Open. GL ES and EGL support (using We. Tek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices). Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers). Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers). Improved Open. MAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware). Improved dedicated AMLCodec hardware accelerated video decoding support for Linux on AMLogic devices.
Improved AMD/Intel x. AMD6. 4 / IA- 6. 4t CPU architectures) support under Linux.
Upgraded SDL (Simple Direct. Media Layer) from version 1. Linux. Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple Direct. Media Layer) for windowing and event handling on X1. Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for i.
OS (on i. Pad, i. Phone, and i. Pod i. Devices). Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X. Improved DXVA (Direct.
X Video Acceleration) support (requires DXVA compatible hardware and drivers). Upgraded Kodi for Windows and binary addons to compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 2. July 2. 01. 51. 6 August 2. October 2. 01. 5. Added possibility to use multiple PVR clients for different PVR backends at the same time. Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions. Improved PVR API and database adding many new EPG and Channel properties.
Improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting). Improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON- RPC API. Improved Closed Captions (CC) support for Live TV. Improved the . Posters and Fan.
Art. Added support for image resource addons (as example weather icons, weather fanart, studio logos, and genre icons). Added support for sound resource addons (skin effect sounds for button clicks, transitions, etc.). Added new dialogs for managning and settings for digital sound processing addons (Audio DSP plugins). Added new dialog to display RDS Radio information under PVR windows. Added option for skinners to add a timeshift indicator to the Video OSD for Live TV. Added skinning support to enable editing of user- ratings from skins frontend. Added support of < depth> tag for stereoscopic (3.
D) effect for controls to GUI engine for skins. Added stereoscopic (3. D) depth support for the Confluence skin. Added the use of image resource addons for updating weather fanart images in Confluence.
Added 'Events' to the Confluence homescreen 'System' submenu. Added EPG to search results window (add to PVR search results window in Confluence). Added new infolabel that can be used to display fanart for moviesets inside a movie set. Added new infolabels that can display audio/subtitle properties for all available streams. Added new infolabels for displaying user ratings.
Added support for skins to use a lightweight font. Added toggle switch to visually mark dirty regions to help skinners optimize and troubleshoot skins. Added support for sortby and sortorder attributes to the < content> element. Added ability in guilib to visualize control hitrects when tagged.
Added option to conditionally include files to allow skinners to conditionally include a file. Added option for skins to show separate icons for empty and full DVD- ROM drives.
Added support for specifying the image scaling algorithm for image resizing/caching. Added new on- screen keyboard layouts for; Chinese, Korean, English QWERTZ, Czech QWERTZ and QWERTY. Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added a new keyboard layouts for a few languages. Improved default quality setting of image scaling algorithm for image resizing/caching. Improved skinning PVR section by reduceing amount of dialogs and simplify skinning Live TV and EPG windows. Improved skin reloading in case theme/color/font is not default.
Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin (Re- Touched). Removed skin XML files for Karaoke support as the feature has been removed from Kodi's core.
Removed native Tv. Tunes support from Confluence since they changed into a paid- only service. King Bounty The Legend Keygen Idm on this page. Added support for lossless software decode of DTS- HD tracks/streams in videos using libdcadec. Added support to utilize pixel aspect ratio from SAR (Storage Aspect Ratio) tags in MKV containers. Improved Stereoscopic 3. Any Software To Format Write Protected Pen Drive there.
D playback with video playlist switching when playlists have 2. D and 3. D videos. Improved and enhanced Blu- ray support (including updated libbluray dependecies).
Upgraded FFmpeg multimedia codec and demux libraries to stable branch release version FFmpeg 2. Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add- ons. Unified the music library and files view (similar to how its done in video library already).
Added option for for user ratings of video items and editing userratings from the GUI frontend. Added support for set overview (plot) in movie sets in the video library. Added setting for to not group movies into a movie set in the video library if it contains a single item.
Added event logging which among others shows which files did not get added to library. Added genre to television series episode view in the video library. Added support for Audio and Subtitle Track Count to Smart Playlist selections in the video library. Added support to sort by top albums by play count in the music library. Added support for sorting dynamic directory listings from content. Added a FFmpeg tag loader that can read additional metadata from more media containers.
Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from . DSP files. Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from . MKA files. Added support for the Music.
Brainz . Android TV. Improved support for Ultra. HD decoding / 4. K resolution output when HW supports it. Improved playback of HEVC, VC- 1 / WMV 9, and VP9 hardware video decoding when using Android's Media. Codec API. Improved display of other Android apps while browsing these under Kodi as application launcher.
Improved audio output by decouple Kodi and system volume which removes double audio volume slider. Improved touch- screen keymapping for Android based platforms for better gesture support. Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture. Removed support for hardware video decoding via Android Stage.
Fright library (libstagefright). Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on Free. BSD, PC- BSD, and other similar BSD platforms. Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers). Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires VDPAU compatible hardware and drivers). Added multi- touch support, and improved touch and gesture support on Linux. Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via VAAPI API when the VPU and drivers supports it.
Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via VDPAU API when the VPU and drivers supports. Improved rendering GUI (including OSD) at a different resolution than video playback plane. Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback.