Thema: Mediacenter Kodi (XBMC)

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Fixes done in this release compared to Release Candidate 1:

Additional fixes done on saving setting when switching between different profiles
Increase time-out when searching for audio devices on Windows which solves some cases of Kodi not starting
Fix crash when unplugging USB devices
Fix crash when choosing Add Timer in EPG window

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-jarvis-release-candidate-2/

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Fixes done in Release Candidate 3:

    • Fix some possible DVD menu problems
    • Fix selection of stacked multiple ISO files (movie.disc1.iso, movie.disc2.iso, movie.disc3.iso etc)
    • Fix navigation in EPG grid when there’s channels have no EPG data available
    • Add missing MOOD tag scanning for FLAC/Ogg/Xiph/Vorbis, ASF and MP4/iTunes like other file format
    • Use local icon stored icon instead of downloading a new one when for the add-on update notification
    • Fix CPU feature check on Android for newer kernels
    • Fix not correctly selecting items in a list when list is updated or going to next page
    • Fix “renderloop” crashes on Windows
    • Fix accidental repeated button presses with long-press feature
    • Added French AZERTY keyboard

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-jarvis-release-candidate-3/

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Die Kodi-Entwickler haben die Faxen dicke. Der Markt wird mit vermeintlich Kodi-tauglichen Streaming-Boxen überschwemmt, illegale Erweiterungen ziehen das Projekt in den Schmutz. Abmahnungen und Community-Unterstützung sollen es richten.

Einer der wichtigsten Gründe für die Umbenennung des XBMC Media Center in Kodi war, die Kontrolle über die Namensrechte an ihrem Projekt zu erlangen. Zuvor leitete sich der Namen von Microsofts Spielkonsole Xbox ab, sodass die XBMC Foundation keine Namensrechte eintragen konnten und sogar damit rechnen mussten, von anderen Firmen abgemahnt zu werden.

Umgekehrt konnten sie selbst nicht verhindern, dass irgendwelche Hersteller Geräte mit angepassten, meist kaputten Versionen von XBMC verkaufen, über die sich die Kunden ärgeren. Das Problem hat sich sogar noch verschärft, nicht zuletzt dank der rasant wachsenden Beliebtheit der plattformübergreifenden Software. Die Folge: Noch mehr Beschwerden über fehlerhafte Installationen im Kodi-Support-Forum, für die das Kodi-Team nichts kann.

Schlimmer sei allerdings die wachsende Zahl Angebote, die Kodi in illegale Machenschaften hineinziehen. Sie werben bei dubiosen Online-Shop, eBay und bei YouTube, dass man mit Kodi auf angepassten Android-Sticks kostenlos Pay-TV und Kinofilme streamen könne. Das hat unter anderem dazu geführt, dass Amazon Kodi nach kurzer Zeit wieder aus dem Amazon App Shop geworfen hat.

Darum will die XBMC Foundation nun Abmahnungen gegen unseriöse Anbieter erwirken. Außerdem bitten sie die Community dringend um Unterstützung, um den Namen wieder rein zu waschen, da einige Kernentwickler kurz davor seien, das Handtuch zu werfen.

Update: Die Nachricht der Kodi-Entwickler hatte am gestrigen Tag offenbar zu einem Denial-of-Service-Angriff auf die Webseite geführt, die daraufhin für mehrere Stunden nicht mehr zu erreichen war.

Quelle : www.heise.de

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Changelog

1.1 Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

    Added support for handling RDS Radio signals via PVR and EPG frontend[1]
    Added support for PVR addons to handle RDS radio signals in UECP and Rass formats[2]
    Added FM Radio receiver based upon RTL-SDR as PVR Addon backend client[3]
    Added support to PVR API for Scheduling Recordings of TV Shows (EPG based DVR Timers for "Series Recording")[4]
    Added possibility for series recordings to Kodi's PVR API for improved DVR capabilities[4]
    Added option for PVR clients and backends to add timeshift indicator to the Video OSD for Live TV
    Added support to show channels without EPG data in PVR guide window[5]
    Added 'Play recording' context menu option if an EPG entry has an associated (PVR) recording[6][7]
    Added enhancement and impovements to the PVR API (example series/episode metadata, timer and recording status)
    Updated Kodi's PVR Addon API version to 4.0.0 for Kodi v16 (Jarvis)[8][9][10]
    Improved EPG association by broadcast ID[11]
    Improved speedup reading EPG from database
    Changed activations of PVR windows so they are only available if PVR is enabled[12]
    Changed "Add timer" as renamed to "Record", and renamed "Add custom timer" to just "Add timer"[13]
    Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
        PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake (method stub) PVR backend for PVR skinning and regression testing
        IPTV Simple Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        FilmOn PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        Stalker Middleware PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        HDHomeRun PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        Enigma2 (Dreambox / Vu+ / DBox2) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        VBox TV Gateway PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        PCTV Systems (Broadway) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        Tvheadend HTSP Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        VDR VNSI Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        MythTV PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and available from the Kodi's community
        NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        Argus TV (former ForTheRecord) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        DVBLink PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        DVBViewer Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        MediaPortal PVR Client Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
        WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community

1.2 Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager

For full changelogs of all Addons APIs, see Jarvis API changes, JSON-RPC, and Add-ons Development Forums

    Added support for allowing skins and resource addons to be activated via info dialog[14]
    Added support for disabling auto-updates per addon from the info panel dialog[15]
    Added automatic dependency handling for binary addons[1]
    Improved add-on update and rollback support by adding ability to choose only a specific repo
    Improved capabilities for downgrading of addons by supporting multiple versions in same repository[16]
    Improved bootstrap buildsystem for binary addons to support arbitrary meta repositories[17]
    Improved the ability to extend Kodi's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
    Updated the Groovy (code generator) library to 2.4.4[18]
    Moved some binary (RSXS) Screensavers and Audio Visualizations (Vis) to addons[2]
    Moved the addon rollback feature to the update dialog and list all available versions there[19]

1.3 GUI Engine (Skinning Engine)

For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Jarvis API changes and the Skin Development Forum

    Updated GUI ABI version 15 as minimum setting any skin before Kodi 15.0 (Isengard) as incompatible[20][21]
    Update guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.10.0[22]
    Changed saving of skin settings which are now stored as separate files
    Added support for Animated GIF images to loadable for any kind of textures, e.g. Posters and FanArt[23]
    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.)[24]
    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[25]
    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[26]
    Added support of <depth> tag for stereoscopic (3D) effect for controls to GUI engine for skins[27]
    Added stereoscopic (3D) depth support for the Confluence skin[28]
    Added the use of image resource addons for updating weather fanart images in Confluence[29]
    Added 'Events' to the Confluence homescreen 'System' submenu[30]
    Added EPG to search results window (add to PVR search results window in Confluence)[31]
    Added new infolabel that can be used to display fanart for moviesets inside a movie set[3]
    Added new infolabels that can display audio/subtitle properties for all available streams[4]
    Added new infolabels for displaying user ratings[32]
    Added support for skins to use a lightweight font[33]
    Added toggle switch to visually mark dirty regions to help skinners optimize and troubleshoot skins[34]
    Added support for sortby and sortorder attributes to the <content> element[5]
    Added ability in guilib to visualize control hitrects when tagged[35]
    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[36]
    Added new on-screen keyboard layouts for; Chinese, Korean, English QWERTZ, Czech QWERTZ and QWERTY[37][38]
    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[39]
    Improved skinning PVR section by reduceing amount of dialogs and simplify skinning Live TV and EPG windows[40]
    Improved skin reloading in case theme/color/font is not default[41]
    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[42]
    Removed native TvTunes support from Confluence since they changed into a paid-only service[43]

1.4 Platform Independent Playback

    Added support for lossless software decode of DTS-HD tracks/streams in videos using libdcadec[6]
    Added support to utilize pixel aspect ratio from SAR (Storage Aspect Ratio) tags in MKV containers[44]
    Improved Stereoscopic 3D playback with video playlist switching when playlists have 2D and 3D videos
    Improved and enhanced Blu-ray support (including updated libbluray dependecies)[7][8]
    Upgraded FFmpeg multimedia codec and demux libraries to stable branch release version FFmpeg 2.8.5[45][46]
    Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons

1.5 Library

    Unified the music library and files view (similar to how its done in video library already)[47]
    Added option for for user ratings of video items and editing userratings from the GUI frontend[48][49]
    Added support for set overview (plot) in movie sets in the video library[50]
    Added setting for to not group movies into a movie set in the video library if it contains a single item[51]
    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[52]
    Added support for Audio and Subtitle Track Count to Smart Playlist selections in the video library[53]
    Added support to sort by top albums by play count in the music library[54]
    Added support for sorting dynamic directory listings from content[55]
    Added a FFmpeg tag loader that can read additional metadata from more media containers[56]
    Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from .DSP files[57]
    Added support to use the new FFmpeg tag loader for reading tags from .MKA files[58]
    Added support for the MusicBrainz "ARTISTS" tag in id3v2, ape, xiph for music files
    Added ability to fetch season year from video database based on first aired episode

1.6 Web Scrapers

    Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi

1.7 AudioEngine

    Added support for Audio DSP (Digital Signal Processing) plugins and addons for Kodi's AudioEngine[9]
    Improved the default cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE (Kodi's AudioEngine)
    Improved ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
    Improved PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
    Improved OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD and similar BSD Unix based systems
    Improved AUDIOTRACK sink for ActiveAE for Amlogic
    Improved Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
    Improved DirectSound sink for ActiveAE for Windows
    Improved WASAPI sink for ActiveAE for Windows
    Improved CoreAudio sink for ActiveAE for (Mac) OS X and iOS
    Improved Darwin sink for ActiveAE for (Mac) OS X and iOS

1.8 Other

    Added initial support for AirPlay from iOS 9 music streaming capability[59]
    Added own lists for audio, subtitle and sub download languages[60]
    Added ability to open the SmartPlayListEditor for a given playlist
    Added "long-press" support to extend the functionality of a single button on a remote control
    Improved code stability and performance as well as general code clean-up in many core areas
    Improved the the integrated UPnP / DNLA Media Server and Client[61][62]
    Improved AirPlay compatibility suppor for iOS 8 (via updated libshairplay)[63]
    Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
    Improved HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
    Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for Kodi via Transifex Translation System
    Updated critical dependency libraries such as openssl, gnutls, and CMake (used to compile binary addons)[64][65]
    Removed support for the current karaoke implmenetation from the core as it was not being maintained [66]

1.9 Android Specific

    Added experimental pass-through support for Dolby Digital (AC3) audio[67]
    Added experimental pass-through support for Dolby TrueHD audio (if supported by underlying hardware & firmware)[67]
    Added experimental pass-through support for DTS audio[67]
    Added experimental pass-through support for DTS-HD Master Audio (if supported by underlying hardware & firmware)[67]
    Added software decode support of Dolby Digital Plus (DD+/E-AC3/EC-3) to PCM audio output[67]
    Added proper implementation of Surface Rendering going thru EGL for video decoded with Android's MediaCodec API[68]
    Added proper implementation of handling MEDIA keys support on Android[69]
    Improved MediaCodec API video decoding implementations support for Android 4.2 (API level 17) and later
    Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback on Android 5.0 and later (>= API 21), inc. Android TV
    Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when HW supports it
    Improved playback of HEVC, VC-1 / WMV 9, and VP9 hardware video decoding when using Android's MediaCodec 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 StageFright library (libstagefright)

1.10 BSD Specific

    Improved Kodi support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, 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)

1.11 Linux Specific

    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[70]
    Added support for HEVC hardware video decoding via VDPAU API when the VPU and drivers supports[71]
    Improved rendering GUI (including OSD) at a different resolution than video playback plane[72]
    Improved automatic refresh rate switching support for video playback[73]
    Improved EGL rendering on Amlogic by implement 480cvbs/i/p and 576cvbs/i/p modes[74]
    Improved SQLite file access performance on Raspberry Pi using MMAP acceleration[75]
    Improved support for UltraHD decoding / 4K resolution output when hardware supports it
    Improved video accelerated decoding on Freescale i.MX 6 based devices
    Improved ARM processor architecture (using WeTek Play and Raspberry Pi as reference devices)
    Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (using WeTek 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 XvBA (AMD/ATI) Hardware Video Acceleration (requires XvBA compatible hardware and drivers)
    Improved OpenMAX 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 x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux

1.12 iOS Specific

    Added support for iOS 9.0 by adding support for compiling Kodi with Xcode 7 IDE and iOS SDK 9.0[76]
    Moved to iOS 8.4 SDK and Xcode 6.4 IDE as default which added support for iOS 8.4
    Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for iOS (on iPad, iPhone, and iPod iDevices)
    Improved touch and gesture support for iOS based iDevice platforms (iPad, iPod, and iPhone)
    Removed support for compiling Apple TV 2 builds[77]
    Removed iOS 5.1 (iPad 1) compatiibility as it was required to add iOS 9 [78]

1.13 OS X Specific

    Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X
    Added support for compiling Kodi with Xcode 7 IDE and OS X 10.11 SDK

1.14 Windows Specific

    Updated the whole rendering system on Microsoft Windows platforms to DirectX 11 and Direct3D 11 native support[79]
    Added support for caching font vertices on GPU side (requires Windows 8 and DirectX 11 device drivers)[79]
    Added support for hardware based Stereoscopic 3D (requires Windows 8 and DirectX 11 device drivers)[79]
    Added support for interleaved Stereoscopic 3D mode on Windows platforms (requires DirectX 11 device drivers)[79]
    Added support for checkerboard Stereoscopic 3D mode on Windows platforms (requires DirectX 11 device drivers)[79]
    Improved DXVA/DXVA2 rendering and decoding on Windows (when using DirectX 11 device drivers)[79]
    Improved support for HEVC hardware video decoding via DXVA on Windows when hardware and driver supports exist

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Whats new:>>

Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid
Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows
Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press
Don’t do a video chapter skip if there’s only one chapter
Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit
Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows
Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit
Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names
Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering

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Whats new:>>

Fixes done in this RC 2 version:

Never cache addons directories
Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don’t call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
Fixed crash under JSON-RPC on iOS/OSX
20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost

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Changelog

Fixes done in 16.1:

Never cache addons directories
Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don’t call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost
Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid
Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows
Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press
Don’t do a video chapter skip if there’s only one chapter
Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit
Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows
Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit
Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering
Fix song reported on playback of songs from cuesheet

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It has been a while since we talked about our official Android remote and to the outside all seemed quiet. Nothing is further from the truth. We are happy to announce that our official Kore remote is getting an update.  Our developers SyncedSynapse and poisdeux have been putting a lot of work on including new features and improving what was already there. Additionally it’ s also great to see that developers from outside of the team are helping getting it better. Many thanks go out to them as well. This is what opensource is all about.

From seeing the number of Google Play downloads we can tell the community loves the Kore remote as well since it’s nearly at 780.000 active users. This is great news too see a lot of you are using it and makes the effort put in it extra worthwhile. Hopefully this with this new update the numbers of users will grow even more.

Quelle, weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kore-android-remote-v2-1-0-update/

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Changelog

This v17 release which the users have named Krypton features a huge amount of rework in various areas like video playback, live TV & PVR, music library, skinning and more. All these areas underwent heavy changes which are now coming to an end and ready for the masses. This means this will be the last alpha and we’ll soon be pumping out beta builds at a steady rate so the broader audience can give Kodi v17 a try. However let’s first focus on what changed this past month.

Skin features:

As you have noticed we included two new default skins. Estuary for regular use and Estouchy for touchscreen devices. At the same time we made sure some limitations we had to deal with in the past are now solved or at least improved. One of those was that the context menu (right click) didn’t work on any media items that were displayed on the home screen. Well now you can call up the menu like in library view.
Add-ons can now include screenshots which will be visible within Kodi itself to give you an idea how they will look.
More more changes were done in different areas however we’ll let discover those yourself.

Music library:

This section received a lot of love during the past year to get it up to speed again and it’s certainly catching up to the video section. Some of the improvements include better tag scanning, browsing speed ups and a lot more tag fields to be used and shown. You music enthousiast will certainly be happy with these changes so we encourage you to try it out and leave you feedback on our Kodi forum.

Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder):

To make it easy i just copied the list from one of our developers on the changes that happened in this section.
Extend Kodi eventlog with PVR events, namely ‘create/delete timers and timer rules’ and ‘start/stop recordings’.
Guide window: Allow timer creation for EPG in recent past.
Timer window: Add option to hide disabled timers.
Separate windows for “Timer Rules” and “Timers”.
Guide & Search window: Add ‘Edit timer’/'Edit timer rule’ to context menu.
Timer rules window: Echo up important Status info to Timer Rules.
Guide window: Use timer logos depending on its state (needs skin support).
Added enhancement and improvements to the PVR add-on API (connection state change handling, asynchronous EPG updates, and more – needs support from the different PVR add-ons!).
Channels window: Add support for sorting channels by ‘last played’.
Recordings window: Separate TV and Radio recordings.
Guide window: performance improvements, especially on first open.
Guide & Search window: Add ‘Delete timer rule’ to context menu.
Add “ShowTimerRule” builtin, so one for instance can map a key to open the “add timer” dialog which is pre-filled to create a epg-based timer rule.
Rework PVRManager: add-ons are now owned by add-on system.
Make instant recording behavior configurable (fixed-time vs. current show vs. interactive).
Timers: Allow to change timer type for existing timers. Makes it possible to for example ‘transform’ a timer for one episode of a show to a series recording (timer rule) for that show.
Recordings window: make ‘group items’ setting persistent.
JSON-RPC api: Sync pvr types fields with current implementation.
Lots of bug fixes in all Don’t forget Game controller add-ons this timeareas.

Game controller add-on:

In the past it has always been a pain to configure game controllers within Kodi. There were some XML files people could download and copy to a certain location. This has now been solved by making them add-ons (like almost everything else) which you can install with a click of a button. This rework of the controllers was needed for retro gaming feature which may land somewhere in the future. No sadly that doesn’t mean retro gaming will be available in v17 but we keep our hopes up for the future.

3dlut and simple ICC linking support for color correction:

Developer laurimyllari added a ColorManager class that supports loading madVR 3DLUT files, and loading ICC display profiles, creating source profiles and linking them. Users can use this to correct their display response with a 3DLUT file, or emulate other displays (with whitepoint, primaries and gamma selectable at runtime) with an ICC profile of their own display. The ICC profile linking is still work in progress, but is functional and shows what can be done with it.

Other improvements:

Well as always we did the usual round of bugfixes and stability improvements that happen during the entire cycle so let’s not bore you with those. Though here are some mention worthy improvements form that list.
Added “Copy to Kodi” functionality on iOS which adds the option to the iOS share sheet of apps to “Open In” Kodi
Bump a variety of external libraries which Kodi uses to function which includes ffmpeg 3.1
On Windows all the external libraries were rebuild with Visual Studio 2015 and received some DLL loading cleanup which hopefully solve some startup problems on some installations
Video playback got further improvements in the wake of the big change from DVDplayer to VideoPlayer

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We are excited to announce the first beta of Kodi 17, codenamed Krypton. Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinned, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively.

The changes between Alpha 3 and Beta 1 are mainly limited to minor fixes and under the hood improvements, so for this first beta, we’ll instead take some time to review a few of the really visible changes in Kodi 17.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-1/

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Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinned, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over the months some bugs might slip through and were hoping to quickly squash the coming beta releases.

The changes between Alpha 3 and Beta 2 are mainly limited to minor fixes and under the hood improvements, so for this second beta, we’ll instead take some time to review a few of the really visible changes in Kodi 17.

Changelog

Fixes done in this Beta 2:

• Any game controller was non function due to recent refactoring. This has now been fixed with the added bonus of deadzone settings for joypads.
• PVR section got a variety of fixed ranging from usability to possible crashing
• Fix possible issue if internet stream used a redirect
• Fix “could not connect to repository” popup
• No longer handle data migrations from pre-Kodi v14 versions.
• Add fallback path to Kodi settings if the skin you use hasn’t received an update yet
• Several fixes done to passthrough audio handling
• Fix possible crash on loading context menu add-ons
• Add Android Nougat new passthrough audio API which special thanks to Google developers for adding this.
• De-interlacing setting underwent some changes recently and some problems came to light.
• Skin and add-on updating doesn’t check for dependencies if they are not in a repository. From now on on any upgrade Kodi we will go through all available updates and install them before starting Kodi.
• Fix DPI unawareness on Windows where it would start in the zoomed in if it wasn’t set to 100% Thanks to Microsoft for giving us the correct way of solving it.

A full list can be found here

Known problem are

• No PVR add-ons packed on Android. Should hopefully get fixed in next update
• Some controllers problems if controllers get’s disconnected when Kodi is running

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Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over the months some bugs might slip through and were hoping to quickly squash the coming beta releases. The changes for this third beta are the result of the continuous effort from the developers, either from inside the team or outside to get v17 into final release shape. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question. Below is a condensed list of fixes and changes done in this beta 3 release.

Changelog

Fixes done in this Beta 3:

• Fix album rating which should show as 0-10 compared to 0-5 before
• Add ability to JSON-RPC to return user ratings
• Fix mouse focus offset on buttons in EPG window
• Check on selected fanart pack in Estuary
• Fix WAV playback on Windows
• Add proper screen scale for latest iOS devices
• Add time button on PVR information dialog
• Fix certain bugs and improve RenderCpature which is use for Boblight
• Fix unloading of EPG data on exiting the application
• Fix on handling CUE sheet
• Add some additional music roles in the Music sections
• Fix possible deadlock on using PVR as startup window
• Don’t use hyphens in front of temperature as they might make it seem as negative temperature
• Exclude singles in recently played albums
• Show text during migrations tasks like database and add-ons upgrade
• Fix PVR not working after using the login screen
• Improve handling of event where displayed changed on Windows which could cause a crash
• Add possibility to get information from both .nfo and scraper
• Fix packaging of binary add-ons on Android builds
• Fix video playback on older Mac Mini devices
• Workaround amlogic passthrough on devices running Android 5
• Fix fontsetting on switching skins
• Fix ghost timers on certain PVR clients
• Fix DVD menu playback and audio
• Fix crashing on OSX with playing DVDs
• Require a click on slider before you can change it. Click again to accept the change and continue navigation
• Variety of fixes to video playback
• Various skin fixes and changes

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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-3/

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Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over the months some bugs might slip through and were hoping to quickly squash the coming beta releases. The changes for this fourth beta are the result of the continuous effort from the developers, either from inside the team or outside to get v17 into final release shape. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question. Below is a condensed list of fixes and changes done in this beta 4 release.

Changelog

Fixes done in this Beta 4:

• Fix certain types of 16bit encoded passthrough streams on OSX
• Fix activate/deactivate on read only timers
• Fix reading interlaced modes from defaultsettings when set to none
• Fix compilation albums, last played rules and fix missing sort order rules in smartplaylists
• Fix relative seeks on video playback
• Fix info dialog for recordings on home screen
• Don’t load inputstreams on startup if they are disabled
• Fix subsequent seeks with video playback
• Explicitly check for DTS capability for making settings visible
• Add ARMv8A 64bit builds for Android
• Add GetLastModifiedDate to the webserver
• Fix playback of DVD ISO files
• Fix focus of list items in media windows (like plugins)
• Change spinners options in smartplaylist editors to a select menu
• Add workaround for AMD/ATI cards regarding interlaced content
• Fix gapless playback for music
• Fix controller on NVIDIA Shield TV not working after it when to sleep
• Fix video playback when skipping beyond end of file on mp4 videos
• Improve crashlog reporting for UWP app in Windows Store
• Export max ratings to NFO files by default
• Fix hardware decoding on some mpeg2 files and DVDs for AMD/ATI cards as their drivers aren’t that good
• Fix aspect ratio calculation for 3D modes
• Fix video playback in image slideshows
• Fix channel group change in PVR
• Fix several memory leaks

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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-4/

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Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over the months some bugs might slip through and were hoping to quickly squash the coming beta releases. The changes for this fifth beta are the result of the continuous effort from the developers, either from inside the team or outside to get v17 into final release shape. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question. Below is a condensed list of fixes and changes done in this beta 5 release.

Changelog

• Fix playback of HLS streams
• Fix skin settings not loading when “reload skin” was triggered
• Fix segfault on EOF for video caused by postprocessing
• Fix possible crash on Android when other Android apps had missing icons
• Change splash screen text once per second to show it’s busy doing database and add-on upgrades instead of just static text.
• Fix missing binary add-ons like PVR and controller handling on Windows
• Add back seek to time using numeric input on video files

• Microsoft has rolled out a fix for users of the Kodi UWP version in combination with AMD videocard that had BSOD. For more information see: Blue screen with error code 0×139
Known problems

• Upgrading the skin you are currently using fails on Windows.
• Upgrading any add-on currently fails on Windows.
• Possible video freezes on Raspberry Pi and Android.

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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-5/

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Changelog

Fixes done in this Beta 6

Show select dialog for director button in the information panel if there’s more than one director
Fix video stall on Android during skipping of video or when opening the player controls
Fix potential memory leak in image handling
Fix several problems in the cmake build system
Redact username and password from the log if user has advancedsettings.xml
Fix creating temp folder when handling add-on updates on Windows which fixes the problem from Beta 4
Fix possible crash on handling certain fonts
Fix possible EPG lock up
Fix ASS subtitles on Windows
Fix memory leak with ASS and certain regular subtitles on all platforms
Revert change that broke RTL (right to left) language subtitles
Force re scan of music file tags to makes use of the newest available library structure
Fix not updating the favourites menu item after changes had been made
Add privacy policy screen in system information
Remember last used subtitle service when searching again
Fix hash checking in add-on installer which caused certain add-on not downloading when multiple repositories were installed
Fix conversion of POPM music tag values to the new 0 to 10 rating
Fix several issues to further improve controller support
Update CEC library with additional fixes
Fix some tag reading issues from music files

WHATS' NEW:

Privacy policy:

Your privacy is an important factor that the XBMC Foundation and Team Kodi considers in the development of all of our software and services. We are committed to being transparent and open. This Privacy Policy explains generally how we receive information about you, and what we do with that information once we have it. As such we have added this privacy policy to our website and also made it available from within Kodi itself to read.

Force music tag re-scan:

With Kodi v17 a lot has changed in regards to the music library and part of this has been better tag scanning and usage. For this to work to it’s full potential it’s mandatory for your music files to be re-scanned and the available tags to be extracted. After you upgrade and enter the music library a choice will be giving to re-scan now or later. As this re-scan can take up quite some time and resources you can answer NO and continue browsing your library. Once you exit library and re-enter you will be prompted again asking to re-scan. Once you answer YES Kodi will start scanning all your music files and extract the tag data they contain to a certain degree. As mentioned this process takes quite some time depending on the size. During this time Kodi might be somewhat slower than normal. Do note that this will not reset your library to a new state or that you will loose data. It will simply update what is available and will leave all play counts and the rest as they were.

Estuary and Estouchy: next generation:

Past March we announced that v17 would feature a brand new default skin called Estuary and since then it has been included in every build we have released. During this period our developers kept improving on how it looked, behaved and made use of the latest features that got included from what is shaping up to be the final release of v17. Since more and more users also started to use these development builds we started to receive a lot of feedback, where most was positive there was also some negative or at least constructive comments. As we are not deaf to these comments and try to create the best experience, our skin developer phil65 went back to the drawing board and rethought on how to incorporate this feedback into wat should become the final skin. With some help from ryanmah for the mockups, ichabod-fletchman for helping out this didn’t resulted in a total rewrite but simply reworking some parts of how the skin looks and behaves. The underlying skin code still remains the same for a very large part except for the parts where a smarter way of doing this magic was found. The visual top layer what you will see should still feel quite familiar if you have used any past v17 builds as not everything was redone.
At same time the touch skin Estouchy also got matched by our senior skin developer ronie to match the Estuary look.

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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-6/