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Titel: Mediacenter Kodi (XBMC)
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 28 Dezember, 2009, 10:55
Die freie Medienwiedergabesoftware XBMC wurde in der Version 9.11 "Camelot" für Linux, Mac OS X, Windows und als Live-Version veröffentlicht. Nicht nur die Bedienoberfläche wurde verändert, auch neue Funktionen kamen hinzu und die Videowiedergabe wurde verbessert.
XMBC 9.11 Camelot nutzt nun unter Windows-Betriebssystemen von Hause aus DirectX - und soll auch unter Linux und Mac OS X Videos ruckelfreier abspielen. Für eine verlässlichere Videowiedergabe wurden zudem neue Codec-Versionen integriert. Unter 64-Bit-Betriebssystemen soll XMBC 9.11 nun korrekt mit WAV- und PCM-Audiodateien umgehen.

(http://scr3.golem.de/screenshots/0912/xbmc-confluence/thumb480/screenshot005.jpg)

Laut XBMC-Team wurde ein neues Standarddesign namens Confluence für die Bedienoberfläche gewählt. Die Oberfläche lässt sich aber weiterhin durch verschiedene Skins verändern. Gleichzeitig wurden die Konfigurationsmenüs komplett reorganisiert und es werden weitere Fernbedienungen unterstützt.

Außerdem wurden die Scraper aktualisiert, welche die Software zum Sammeln von Metadaten und Grafiken für Musikstücke, Filme und TV-Serien nutzt. Die XMBC-Entwickler empfehlen einen Blick auf die neuen Skins und Plugins, die seit der Veröffentlichung der Version Babylon im Mai 2009 von der Community veröffentlicht wurden.

XMBC 9.11 steht für Linux, Mac OS X, Windows und als Live-Version zum Download (http://xbmc.org/download/) zur Verfügung. XMBC Live kann etwa von CDs oder USB-Sticks gestartet werden - Probleme mit dem Live-Installer wurden über die Feiertage bereits behoben. XBMC für Mac lässt sich auch auf Apple-TV-Geräten installieren, um deren Funktionsumfang zu erweitern.

Quelle : www.golem.de
Titel: Mediacenter XBMC 10.0 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Dezember, 2010, 10:37
Nach fast einjähriger Entwicklungszeit hat das XBMC-Team mit »Dharma« die Version 10.0 des freien Mediacenters veröffentlicht. XBMC eignet sich zum Abspielen von vielerlei Medien, darunter beispielsweise Fotos, Videos, Musik oder Fernsehsendungen und kann mit Hilfe von Smartphones mit iOS oder Android gesteuert werden.

(http://www.heise.de/software/screenshots/52892.jpg)

Die wichtigste Neuerung in XBMC 10.0 ist ein Add-on-System, mit dessen Hilfe Anwender ihr Mediacenter gezielt erweitern können. In der Ankündigung werden beispielhaft Add-ons zum Hören von Webradios und Podcasts, der Anschluss von Webcams und die Übertragung der Bilder und Steuerung an ein Webinterface sowie eine Youtube-Anbindung genannt. Die Add-ons sind mit Hilfe eines speziell entwickelten Frameworks leicht zu verwalten, der unter »Einstellungen« aufrufbare Add-ons-Browser dient als grafische Oberfläche zum Suchen und Installieren der Erweiterungen.

Die XBMC-Entwickler kümmerten sich auch darum, dass mehr Formate unterstützt werden, so dass sich jetzt auch mit Googles WebM/VP8 kodierte Multimediadateien abspielen lassen. XBMC 10.0 offeriert Anwendern dank mehrerer Skins die Freiheit, das Aussehen des Mediacenters weitestgehend an ihren Geschmack anzupassen. Die Anwendung kann via Gesten bedient werden und bietet die Möglichkeit, die zu Instrumentalversionen von Musikstücken gehörigen Textinformationen einzublenden, so dass sie sich auch für Karaokeveranstaltungen eignet.

»Dharma« unterstützt Broadcoms Crystal HD PCIe/Mini-PCIe-Hardware sowie unverschlüsselte Blueray-Discs und ist in der Lage, WebDAV-Verzeichnisse als Medienquellen einzubinden. MySQL kann als Datenbank genutzt werden, um die Musik- und Videobestände zu verwalten, aufgenommene Fernsehsendungen lassen sich chronologisch sortieren und Filme zu Movie Sets gruppieren. Das Changelog (http://mirrors.xmission.com/xbmc/releases/10.0-Dharma-changelog.txt) gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über alle Neuerungen und Änderungen.

Um die neue Version des Mediacenters ausprobieren zu können, ohne sie installieren zu müssen, haben die Entwickler eine Live-CD erstellt, die sich bei Gefallen auch installieren lässt. XBMC 10.0 läuft unter Linux, Mac OS X und MS Windows, im Downloadbereich (http://xbmc.org/download/) des Projekts sind neben den Quelltexten auch Binaries für Ubuntu, Arch Linux und Mandriva zu finden.

Quelle : www.pro-linux.de
Titel: XBMC 10.1 veröffentlicht
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 11 März, 2011, 13:55
Das Team-XBMC hat Version 10.1 des Mediacenters XBMC herausgegeben, die zahlreiche Fehler der letzten Version korrigiert.

(http://www.pro-linux.de/images/NB3/imgdb/o_xmbc-100.jpg)
Version 10.1 (http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/03/10/bug-fix-release-10-1/) bringt nach Angaben der Entwickler keine neuen Funktionen, sondern konzentriert sich auf die Beseitigung einiger lästiger Fehler, die seit der Freigabe von XBMC 10.1 letzten Dezember bekannt wurden. Neue Funktionen werden in der Version 11.0 implementiert, die bereits in Arbeit ist.

Die wohl wichtigste Korrektur betrifft ein Problem, dass XBMC einfrieren konnte, wenn eine Skin aktualisiert wurde. Wegen dieses Fehlers mussten die Entwickler Skin-Updates zurückhalten, diese sollen in einigen Wochen wieder aufgenommen werden. Weitere Änderungen in Version 10.1 sind dem ausführlichen Änderungslog (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/compare/10.0-Dharma...10.1-Dharma) zu entnehmen. So konnten unter Windows einige RTMP-Streams nicht abgespielt werden, die enthaltenen Erweiterungen wurden aktualisiert, beim Herunterladen von Erweiterungen wird ein korrekter Referrer-Header gesendet, was die Abhängigkeits-Statistiken verbessern soll, einige Abstürze beim Abspielen von Videos auf ATI-Hardware wurden behoben und die Hardware-beschleunigte Dekodierung unter Mac OS X wurde verbessert.

XBMC 10.1 steht unter der GPL und teilweise der LGPL und läuft unter Linux, Mac OS X, Apple TV und Windows. Die nächste Version 11.0 wird zum einen Änderungen in der Projektstruktur bringen. Das Team wechselte von SVN zu Git als Versionsverwaltungssystem, und es stehen täglich neu generierte Binärpakete für Windows und Mac OS X bereit. Zum anderen wurde einige Arbeit in die Umstrukturierung des Codes gesteckt, um ihn künftig besser warten zu können. Das enthaltene FFmpeg wurde aktualisiert, FreeBSD soll unterstützt werden, die Bedienung auf Touchscreen-Geräten soll besser werden, das Audiosystem wird komplett erneuert, die Oberfläche des Videorekorders wird überarbeitet und Portierungen auf iDevice und Apple TV 2 sind in Arbeit.

XBMC wurde in C++ geschrieben und unterstützt laut dem Entwicklerteam die meisten Audio- und Videoformate sowie Bilder. DVD-ISO/IMG-Images werden dekodiert und wiedergegeben, auch wenn sie als .rar- oder .zip-Archiv vorliegen. Mit XBMC können Anwender ihre Mediensammlung datenbankgestützt verwalten und die Software kann dank einer Python-Skript-Engine um zusätzliche Add-ons erweitert werden. Zudem kann die Oberfläche nach Gusto des Anwenders angepasst werden.

XBMC ging aus dem 2002 gegründeten XboxMediaPlayer (XBMP) hervor. Im November 2002 stieß Erwin Beckers, der Entwickler des »YAMP - Yet Another Media Player« zu dem Team, und das gemeinsame Produkt war der um etliche Features erweiterte Xbox Media Player 2.0. Bis 2003 war die Entwicklung der Software so weit vorangeschritten, dass sie mehr als ein Player war und in XBox Media Center (XBMC) umbenannt wurde. Der Linux-Zweig des Mediacenters wird seit 2007 entwickelt.

Quelle : www.pro-linux.de
Titel: XBMC Media Center 11.0 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 28 Dezember, 2011, 11:10
Changelog:

# Addons Framework, API, and Manager
* Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
* Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
* Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
* Extended Addons API to support adding extension points for Service Addons (xbmc.service)
* Added support for Addon Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions
* Added the ability to search Addons in the Addons-Manager
# GUI Engine
* Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
* Added option for auto login of a specific selected user profile (good for kiosk mode)
* Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()
* Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list
* Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube)
* Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
* Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
* Added Dirty Region support to reduce CPU usage
* Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage)
# Playback:
* Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
* Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting
* Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
* Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles
* Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles
* Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles
* Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's EDL (Edit Decision List) format
* Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping
* Added support for Slingbox
* Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
* Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
* Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions)
* Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support
* Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native
* Added support for NFS virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms)
* Added support for AFP (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Added Airplay support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms)
* Added Airplay support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Improved UPnP Renderer
* Added a slider for volume amplification and dynamic range compression during video playback
* Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes
* Extended PathSubstitution from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases
* Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux)
* Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple
* Added DXVA Deinterlacing support
# Library:
* Combined Files and Library mode for videos
* Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command
* Added a "Play from here" context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library
* Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos
* Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings" after being set
* Added disc stub support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc.
# Scrapers:
* Improve TheMovieDB.org movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
* Improve TheTVDB.com (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
* Improve Freebase (English) music scraper
# Skins:
* Confluence: Home screen switched to horizontal layout
* Confluence: Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it
* Confluence: Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu
* Confluence: Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
# Other:
* Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once
* Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows
* Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver
* Added support for sorting depending on current locale
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default)
* Added support for batch requests to the JSON-RPC API
* Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API
* Make JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details)
* Cleanup and improve JSON-RPC API
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by JSON-RPC (default is 9090)
* Improve the features of the default web interface
* Removed Weather from XBMC core and switched to Weather Underground as the default weather provider addon
# Linux Specific:
* Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
* Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux
* Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices
* Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers
* Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control
* Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
* Provide JSON-RPC server over Bluetooth
# iOS Specific:
* Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding "XBMC for iOS" to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems)
* Added support for Apple A4 (ARM) iDevices, inc. Apple TV 2G, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
* Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API
* Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS
* Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
* Added a APT repository for Apple TV, and Cydia with packages for iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and iPad
# Mac OS X Specific:
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier
# Windows Specific:
* Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows
* Added DXVA video rendering option
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier

http://xbmc.org/download/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 11.0 Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 Februar, 2012, 13:17
Whats new: >>

- Fixed playlist issues
- Altered some misbehaving Library buttons
- Provided a little more control over the way movie sets are scraped
- Cleaned up numerous other small bugs

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 11.0 RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 März, 2012, 13:31
Whats new: >>

* Given preference to external subtitles over internal subtitles
* Updated a number of XBMC translations for final release
* Resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues
* Allowed specified movie sets to be sorted by title, rather than year, without changing the default sort order on other sets.


http://xbmc.org/
Titel: Mediacenter XBMC 11 Codename ´Eden´ erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 März, 2012, 13:00
Freunde der gepflegten Medienverwaltung nebst Media Center-Oberfläche können den Sonntag nutzen, dass Xbox Media Center (XBMC) auszuprobieren oder zu aktualisieren, welches ganz frisch in Version 11, Codename: Eden erschienen ist. Die Software ist nicht nur für Windows zu haben, auch Anwender von Linux dürfen zuschlagen. Neben der festen Version zum Installieren auf euren Kisten gibt es auch noch Live CDs, zum direkten Boot auf alten Kisten.

(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4334/xbmceden550x310.jpg)

In Version 11 wurde der Standard-Skin noch einmal aufgebohrt und verbessert, des Weiteren wurde an der Geschwindigkeitsschraube gedreht. Mehr Infos und Downloadmöglichkeit gesucht? Hier (http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/).
Titel: Re: Mediacenter XBMC 11 Codename ´Eden´ erschienen
Beitrag von: kater am 25 März, 2012, 19:18
habs mal auf dem Läppi installiert. Während aber die 10.1 als Client für RecordingService hervorragend funktionierte, wird nun zwar der Server gefunden und angezeigt,
aber es lässt sich nur auf Bilder zugreifen. Bewegte Inhalte (Videos und TV) werden nicht dargestellt. Die Einstellungen hab ich entsprechend 10.1 gesetzt, bringt aber nichts.
Mal weitersehen...
DVB Viewer als Client funktioniert aber.
Titel: Re: Mediacenter XBMC 11 Codename ´Eden´ erschienen
Beitrag von: kater am 30 März, 2012, 19:51
nachdem ich DVB Viewer RecordingService auf 1.9.4.1 geuppt habe, läuft auch XBMC 11.0 einwandfrei.
Titel: XBMC RC für Android ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 Juli, 2012, 16:23
Die Entwickler des XBox Media Center XBMC haben auf der Webseite des Projektes eine Version speziell für Android-Geräte angekündigt. XBMC ist eine Software zur Wiedergabe von Filmen, Musik und Bildern, die bereits für unterschiedlichste Plattformen wie Windows, Linux, iOS oder Apple TV zum Download bereitsteht.

Die Version für Android soll den gleichen Umfang besitzen, wie das Gegenstück für den Desktop und auf Smartphones, Tablets und Set-Top-Boxen laufen. Die Geräte müssen dafür nicht durch Rooten manipuliert werden.

Auf dem Testgerät, einer Pivos XIOS DS Set-Top-Box, sowie einigen Smartphones und Tablets läuft XBMC für Android laut den Entwicklern zwar stabil, eignet sich aber noch nicht für den täglichen Gebrauch. So fehlen im Moment noch die passenden Oberflächen für die Bedienung mit einem Touchscreen und die Hardware-Beschleunigung funktioniert im Moment nur auf der Pivos Set-Top-Box.


Für potentielle Beta-Tester möchte man im Laufe der nächsten Wochen Installations-Pakete zum Download anbieten, interessierte Entwickler können den Quellcode bereits jetzt unter https://github.com/xbmc/android einsehen.

Quelle : www.heise.de
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 15 Juli, 2012, 11:33
Wer Lust auf ausprobieren hat ... hier gibts einen lauffähigen Build für Android -> Klick (http://dl.miniand.com/miniand/xbmc-android/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-20120714.apk)

Beim ersten Start kanns etwas dauern ... ;)
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 Juli, 2012, 17:30
Und hier noch ein Build für Tegra 2 Geräte:

Klick (http://rapidgator.net/file/28729686)

Mirror :

Klick (http://depositfiles.com/files/ok6moyzt3)

Läuft z.B. prima auf meinem Acer A500 Tablet ;D

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2274/20120730172112.jpg)

(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/599/20120730172207.jpg)

Allerdings noch mit Einschränkungen:

Zitat
I managed to get a build of XBMC working on Tegra2's including the A500.This only works for SD content currently and hardware decoder support will be necessary to get 720p and 1080p support.

Please note the Tegra2 is an unsupported platform currently.
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: ritschibie am 30 Juli, 2012, 17:45
Hallo SiL,

danke für die Links. Hast Du schon ausprobiert, wie die Musi mit dem Teil wiedergegeben wird (Lautstärke, Equalizer, etc.)? Warte zwar immer noch auf die 32 GB-Version des Asus TF700, aber so ein Vorgeschmäckle kann ja nicht schaden  ;)
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 Juli, 2012, 18:10
Klingt super :jo ...wie ein kleiner Ghettoblaster ;D

(http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/332/20120730180717.jpg)

Für die Lautstärke das das Acer nen Hardwareknopf oben links ... Equalizer ist Softwaresache ... da bietet das XBMC auch nix eigenes ...
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: ritschibie am 30 Juli, 2012, 18:56
Jo, ich weiss, der Lautstärkeregler ist am Gerät und Acer hat bekanntlich gute Soundchips eingebaut. Hatte aber auch gelesen, dass es apps für Lautstärkeanhebung geben soll (das Asus
hat eine eher dezente Lautstärkeregelung). XBMC wird vorgemerkt!  :)
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 Juli, 2012, 19:01
Zitat
Hatte aber auch gelesen, dass es apps für Lautstärkeanhebung geben soll

Ja ...da gibts diverses ... auch was den Equalizer angeht ...z.b. das - > Klick (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zbWFydGFuZHJvaWRhcHBzLmVxdWFsaXplciJd)

Allerdings gibts ne Lautstärkeanpassung (Gain) in XBMC ...
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 Juli, 2012, 20:20
Also ich bin ja echt angetan von dieser Software ...spielt alles mögliche an Video und Audioformaten ab ...auch von Quellen im Netzwerk etc... Internetradio ...Wetter und viele andere Ad-ons ...liest RSS Feeds und andere Quellen etc... cool  :jo
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 12 August, 2012, 19:40
Und hier ein weiteres Beta Release:

What's new in this version: Audio issue is resolved

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)
http://rapidgator.net/file/31867139/

mirror:
http://aavg.net/8iq9v1p9jg7e

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)
http://rapidgator.net/file/31874749/

mirror:
http://aavg.net/7q9vi5qdz0yr
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 August, 2012, 12:10
Und hier noch ein Release:

Zitat
NEON Devices
Tegra3
Newer multi-core Samsung devices
Cortex A8 SoC's
Nexus 7
ASUS Transformer TF300T
Samsung Galaxy S III (all variants)
Galaxy Nexus
Xperia S
Nook Tablet
HTC Evo 3D
Samsung Galaxy S 2 (ATT for sure, likley all variants)
Droid Razr Maxx
Samsung Galaxy S (Captivate confirmed, varients likely work too)
Galaxy S I Epic 4g
Samsung Rugby Smart (likely Galaxy W as well)
HTC One XL
Snapdragon S4 MSM8960
Droid Bionic
Pantech Burst
Droid Razr
HTC EVO 4G (NON LTE)
Odroid-X
Viewsonic G Tablet

Non-NEON Devices
Tegra2
Motorola Atrix / Photon / Electrify
Acer A100 / A500 / A200
Eee Transformer TF101
Toshiba Thrive (7" and 10")
Motorola XOOM
HP Touchpad (CM9)
Sony Tablet S
LG Optimus 2x
Advent Vega
Droid X
Galaxy Tab GT-P7510

Sources
XBMC
Official: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
My Fork (Includes Tegra2): https://github.com/mcrosson/xbmc/

This version build in 201208015
Thanks to kemonine96

What's new in this version:
https://github.com/mcrosson/xbmc/compar ... 0b4fd7d2d9

Download:

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)
http://rapidgator.net/file/33067991/

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)
http://rapidgator.net/file/33074231/
Titel: XBMC: Raspberry Pi als Low-Cost-Mediaplayer
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 15 Oktober, 2012, 19:20
XBMC baut seine Unterstützung für den Raspberry Pi aus. Der 32-Euro-Bastelcomputer wird damit als vernetzter und HD-fähiger Mediaplayer für das Wohnzimmer interessanter.

Mit der Media-Center-Software XBMC wird der Raspberry Pi zum vernetzten und HD-fähigen Mediaplayer für das Wohnzimmer. Kürzlich hat das XBMC-Team angekündigt, dass der für den Raspberry Pi und dessen ARM-Chip optimierte Kommandozeilen-Player OMXPlayer Bestandteil der Hauptentwicklungslinie von XBMC wird. Dazu seien noch viele weitere Anpassungen von XBMC auf ARM und Raspberry Pi umgesetzt worden, heißt es auf der Projekthomepage xbmc.org.

Der ganze Artikel (http://www.golem.de/news/xbmc-raspberry-pi-als-low-cost-mediaplayer-1210-95100.html)

Quelle : www.golem.de
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121020
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Oktober, 2012, 18:20
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/aaft9t6a

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/zhfaf9q4749b/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2012-10-20-full-neon.apk


Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/co4kilzk

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/gqsfrovwh4fl/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2012-10-20-no-neon.apk
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: ritschibie am 25 Oktober, 2012, 20:57
Weiss gar nicht, ob man hier auf der release-site Kommentare abgeben kann? Ich hab die untenstehende beta mal auf's Tablet aufgezogen und finde das Programm auch sehr vielseitig. Hat wenig von einem Beta-Stadium! Ich (überdurchschnittlich dummer User, kurz ÜDU) hab mir erst sehr schwer getan, meine auf's Tab geladene Musik zu finden, aber nach 30 min oder so habe ich es dann doch geschafft. Jo. kracht in den Ohren, hat schon nen Bums  ;)

Hat das Ding auch nen Equalizer? Hab ihn nicht gefunden  :embarassed:

Für Hinweise und Hilfereichungen gibt's wie immer ein Dankeschön  :)
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 build 20121028
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Oktober, 2012, 06:10
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/c0qd48np

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/f662bf8xj40k

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/jqs3j0t2

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/kzhoj21v5o70
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 build 20121030
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 31 Oktober, 2012, 06:30
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/648zj5nc

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/47ibpherknj4

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/nyqfcxmc

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/0nhx9y8knaxb
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121102
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 November, 2012, 20:00
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/9wzy81oz

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/yzww3y806lm5/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2012-11-02-full-neon-650bd5efc8e310341a969179b2944c4e45da0a30.apk

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/quw5hpeg

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/11dcx3tr89j6/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2012-11-02-no-neon-b924f4efeab4ebd6c184d1b73f06dd7f018fd9d4.apk
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121103
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 November, 2012, 10:00
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/ojsltuqj

mirror:
http://www.secureupload.eu/i5m3pf8yc2wy

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/n43cj7ko

mirror:
http://www.secureupload.eu/v5fdyriktuvy
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 build 20121104
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 November, 2012, 13:04
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/8kesvx0g

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/47ibpherknj4

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/9y07xiro

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/0nhx9y8knaxb
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 build 20121107
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 07 November, 2012, 14:10
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/fwtv8tn2

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/gwd1lqmp4hwb

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/wo4shlyc
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121109
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 November, 2012, 18:15
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/tysxiwnu

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/4d0djo0bkin8

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/cx12g530

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/g4ro43oq8idw
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121110
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 November, 2012, 14:05
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/5gbgsm9d

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/sa0ichfg0d2j

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/q8sm0s8g

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/xjhlud63e11b
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121111
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 11 November, 2012, 14:00
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/w5vbj0qj

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/jlgwooai0b33

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/u95r58l2

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/awn3xkd4lqxl
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121112
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 12 November, 2012, 13:19
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/z1z1pcfr

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/ouxa0658xbw7

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/26jm8bv7

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/gzarre2af1bk
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 build 20121114
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 November, 2012, 14:11
What's new in this version:

https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/crb8acx2

Mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/p8fz8x6a1t0x

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/abc9cknm
Titel: XBMC 12.0 Beta 1 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 November, 2012, 10:00
Infos hierzu -> http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/11/15/xbmc-12-0-frodo-beta-1/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121116
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 November, 2012, 15:30
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/53ar6qfc

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/hmdw50ln69qx

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/2ropvvvf

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/aml4fkmjb0vx
Titel: Re: XBMC für Android Beta ...
Beitrag von: ritschibie am 16 November, 2012, 20:10
Kurzer Erfahrungsbericht zu xbmc aus dem "Urlaubstest" (im Vergleich zu "google play").

xbmc ist nicht ganz so einfach zu bedienen wie der google Player, hat aber einen entscheidenden Vorteil: Während der google Player bei mir so alle 20 Sekunden einen "Abriß" hatte, liefen die Stücke auf xbmc anstandslos durch. Der xbmc scheint sich besser von anderen Programmen abzuschirmen als der Google Konkurrent! Wenn das Teil jetzt auch noch einen Equalizer hätte...
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121118
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 November, 2012, 17:00
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/e2u4vlf9

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/edt2krwe4hjx

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/ixxts2ku

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/uq5907oqylt2
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121123
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 23 November, 2012, 16:45
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/9v3wsg3h

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/bsmdv5y8a8ak

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/re92sbk3

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/d2sfrfu6me8q
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121128
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 28 November, 2012, 16:00
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/7yc273dn

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/ta5oi1zc3mxx

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/ho46bd4v

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/j8wfdolbsbup
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121130
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 November, 2012, 18:00
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/yb2foy8b

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/l77wkp4jrlm6

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/xeqdor6y

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/enq3dj4qxrg3
Titel: XBMC For Android v1.0 Build 20121201
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 Dezember, 2012, 15:00
What's new in this version: https://github.com/xbmc/android

NEON Devices (Nexus 7 / Tegra3 / Newer Samsung Devices)

http://ul.to/j3o9iacj

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/qkirb63wfpd3

Non-NEON Devices (Tegra2 / A500 / A100 / Thrive)

http://ul.to/0md4yzzk

mirror:

http://www.secureupload.eu/0gg2nidgbm44
Titel: XBMC 12 for Android Frodo v1.0 Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 Dezember, 2012, 13:23
We are excited to announce Beta 2 of XBMC 12 today, as it brings with it many fixes and one long awaited major update.

(http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9712/climsy2012123132048.jpg)

Zitat
Update 2: Users should be aware that an update to Android 4.2 appears to have temporarily broken XBMC support for all you Nexus and Cyanogenmod users (and anyone else running 4.2). Beta3 should be right around the corner, and we hope to have a fix in place by the time that rolls out.

Controller Support
Without a doubt, one of the most popular controllers for PC at present is the Xbox 360 Controller. It is invariably the most supported controller for all AAA title Windows games (along with numerous games being ported for Steam for Linux), so it was undoubtedly time for the controller to become fully plug and play compatible with XBMC. Thanks to the work of Shiretoko212, rowan.border, and all those who contributed in this thread, the previously outdated 360 keymap has been updated and dramatically improved so that now almost any 360 controller, regardless of version, should be immediately recognized by XBMC assuming a driver is in place. For those interested in using their 360 controller to control XBMC, check out this 360 button map to show what all the buttons do in XBMC.

Audio Fixes
Easily the number one reported issue with Beta1 was a lack of sound in Windows. This issue was relatively simply resolved by switching from WASAPI to DirectSound as the default output. Users who prefer WASAPI can still easily switch back in System->Audio Output.

Other Fixes
Needless to say, there were numerous other fixes, including fixes to nodes and smartplaylists, the volume range of Airtunes in Windows, a speedup of EPG data importing, solving a minor files issue, and others. To see all the changes, feel free to refer to the Beta2 Git Changelog. Additionally, there are several other issues still being worked on, and more will likely crop up during Beta testing. If you would like to report an issue, please search for the issue in our forums first and report any verified bugs in Trac.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 12 Frodo - Beta 3 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 08 Dezember, 2012, 18:00
Nun kommen auch die Nutzer von Android 4.x wieder in den Genuss die aktuelle Beta testen zu können.

Weitere Highlights :

Zitat
Hot on the heels of Beta 2, we are excited to release Beta 3. This release includes a number of fixes as we work to resolve issues that have cropped up since Beta 2 and also attempt to isolate some issues that still exist. For a quick run down of some of the big ones:

  -  Users of Android 4.2 should now be able to install and run XBMC for Android.
  -  The upgrade path of Windows users has been a little tricky.  Users may upgrade to beta and discover the audio no longer works. This is due to a bit of trickiness with the AudioEngine upgrade. For Audiophiles to get the most out of AE, we recommend that you check out the AE Wiki entry.
   - For those Windows users who find themselves without sound, the simple fix is to go to System->system->Audio Output and switch WASAPI to DirectSound. Users doing a clean install of XBMC for Windows Beta 3 should have no problem.
  -  PVR Addons have been included with XBMC for Windows, matching up with most other ports.
  -  We are still only partially complete on translations for numerous languages, including Romanian, Japanese, Estonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Hindi, and more.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: Re: XBMC 12 Frodo - Beta 3 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 08 Dezember, 2012, 18:38
Läuft auf meinem Nexus 7 soweit einwandfrei .... allerdings scheint man sich für den Moment dazu entschieden zu haben ... Geräte mit Tegra 2 Chipsatz ... wie z.B. auch im Acer A500 verbaut ... nicht zu unterstützen ... sprich ...die Beta 3 läuft auf meinem A 500 nicht ...
Titel: XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 1
Beitrag von: ritschibie am 15 Dezember, 2012, 23:47
Zitat
We would quickly like to take this time to announce the first release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include:

    HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
    Live TV and PVR support
    h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
    64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
    Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
    Support for the Raspberry PI
    Initial support for the Android platform
    Improved Airplay support across all platforms
    Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
    Advanced Filtering in the library
    Advanced UPnP sharing
    Translations now powered by Transifex

At this point, XBMC 12 is entirely feature complete. All changes from this point forward will exclusively include fixes for replicable bugs necessary to reach final release.

To get this release candidate, please visit our download page.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: Re: XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 Dezember, 2012, 12:23
Läuft einwandfrei auf meinen Nexus 7 :D
Titel: Re: XBMC RC für Android ...
Beitrag von: kater am 18 Dezember, 2012, 22:19
geschafft, hab jetzt XBMC auf dem Iconia zum Mediencenter gemacht.
1. Zugriff auf die, auf dem Tablet und der SD Karte gespeicherte Dateien
2. Zugriff über DVB Viewer Recordingservice auf die, auf dem PC gespeicherte Videos, Bilder und auf Audiodateien
3. Zugriff auf die TV Karte des PC
4. Nutzen von Medieninhalten im Internet (InternetTV und  InternetRadio)
die Qualität ist, soweit ich das in der kurzen Zeit beurteilen kann, sehr gut.

PS.
Punkt 2 und 3 über DVB Viewer Recordingservice.
Titel: XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 Dezember, 2012, 07:00
Zitat
We would quickly like to take this time to announce the second release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include:

    HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
    Live TV and PVR support
    h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
    64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
    Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
    Support for the Raspberry PI
    Initial support for the Android platform
    Improved Airplay support across all platforms, including Airplay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
    Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
    Advanced Filtering in the library
    Advanced UPnP sharing
    Translations now powered by Transifex

At this point, XBMC 12 is entirely feature complete. All changes from this point forward will exclusively include fixes for replicable bugs necessary to reach final release.

Fixes between RC1 and RC2 include resolution of incorrectly disabling audio devices due to faulty detection, which should resolve all or most “audio suddenly stops altogether” complaints, along with numerous other stability enhancements and minor fixes. For the full list, visit our Github milestones for RC2.

Quelle : http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/12/20/xbmc-12-frodo-release-candidate-2/
Titel: Re: XBMC RC für Android ...
Beitrag von: dvb_ss2 am 25 Dezember, 2012, 20:25
Läuft bei mir gerade nicht ganz so rund wie noch die RC1.

Ausgangssituation:
- Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon 64bit
- XBMC 12 RC2
- TVHeadend als PVR-Client mit TV-Karte

Problem:
Möchte ich XBMC verlassen (S -> verlassen -> bestätigen), hängt sich das XBMC-Fenster gerne mal auf. Unter RC1 hatte ich dieses Problem nicht.

dvb_ss2
Titel: XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Januar, 2013, 09:02
Zitat
We would like to take this time to announce the third release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include:

    HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
    Live TV and PVR support
    h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
    64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
    Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
    Support for the Raspberry PI
    Initial support for the Android platform
    Improved Airplay support across all platforms, including Airplay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
    Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
    Advanced Filtering in the library
    Advanced UPnP sharing
    Translations now powered by Transifex

At this point, XBMC 12 is entirely feature complete. All changes from this point forward will exclusively include fixes for replicable bugs necessary to reach final release.

Fixes between RC2 and RC3 are entirely stability fixes. For the full list, visit our Github milestones for RC3 (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues?milestone=14&state=closed).

Quelle : http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/01/03/xbmc-12-frodo-release-candidate-3/
Titel: Re: XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 3
Beitrag von: dvb_ss2 am 07 Januar, 2013, 12:59
Mit dieser Version ist das Problem mit dem Hängen bleiben behoben. Während nach Installation des RC1 alle PVR-Addons mitinstalliert wurden, musste ich es nach RC3 manuell nachinstallieren.

Bis dato läuft die RC3 aber recht gut.

dvb_ss2
Titel: XBMC 12.0 - Frodo erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Januar, 2013, 16:52
Wie die Entwickler der freienMedia-Center-Software XBMC bekannt gaben, steht ab sofort die offizielle Version 12 bereit. Neu in XBMC 12 ist unter anderem die Unterstützung von LiveTV und PVR sowie von DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD.

XBMC ist eine multifunktionale Media-Center-Software, die ihre Wurzeln auf der Xbox-Spielkonsole hat und sich selbst als klassisches Mediacenter versteht. Die Applikation erlaubt Multimedia-Dateien wie Video-, Bilder- und Audiodateien von DVD, Festplatte, Server oder aus dem Internet wiederzugeben. Das Projekt selbst ging aus dem 2002 gegründeten Xbox Media Player (XBMP) hervor. Im November 2002 stieß Erwin Beckers, der Entwickler des »YAMP - Yet Another Media Player«, zum Team. Das gemeinsame Produkt stellte der um etliche Features erweiterte Xbox Media Player 2.0 dar. Bis 2003 war die Entwicklung der Software so weit vorangeschritten, dass sie mehr als ein Player war und in XBox Media Center (XBMC) umbenannt wurde. Der Linux-Zweig des Mediacenters wird seit 2007 entwickelt.

Der ganze Artikel (http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/19389/mediacenter-xbmc-12-freigegeben.html)

Quelle : www.pro-linux.de
Titel: XBMC 13 Alpha 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 17 März, 2013, 20:00
Weitere Infos hierzu und Download : http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/03/14/xbmc-13-gotham-february-cycle/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 12.1 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 März, 2013, 13:17
Zitat
About a month and a half after the release of XBMC 12.0, we are happy to announce XBMC 12.1 with substantial fixes  for 12.0 across all platforms. Fixes include:

    XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
    XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
    Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
    Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
    iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
    XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
    Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
    Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
    Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
    Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
    AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
    Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms

For all users interested in maximum stability, we highly recommend that you update from 12.0 to 12.1. This is the XBMC you were looking for.

Weitere Infos hierzu und Download : http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/03/18/xbmc-12-1-now-even-better/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13 alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 April, 2013, 16:15
Infos hierzu und Downloadlinks dieser Version : http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/04/03/xbmc-13-gotham-march-cycle/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 12.2pre testing
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 April, 2013, 21:06
Zitat
In between coding up exciting new features, we have been hard at work pushing as many fixes as possible into the next bug fix release of XBMC 12.  With 12.2, we’d like to ask your help in performing some bug testing, prior to the release.

Broadly speaking, we are only looking for “crash and burn” reports. If XBMC resets on you or randomly crashes or something similarly major, we’d like to know about it with a note in the forum. If you elect to be a tester for 12.2pre, we would very much appreciate a debug log along with your crash report. Any reports without a log will be ignored. To make your report, we suggest visiting this thread.

To get XBMC 12.2pre, simply visit our Test Builds page, and download the most recent test build for your system with the name “Frodo” at the end of the file.

For more info and to make reports, see the testing thread on our forums (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162100).


Titel: XBMC 12.2 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 Mai, 2013, 13:37
Zitat
About a month and a half after the release of XBMC 12.1, we are happy to announce XBMC 12.2 with substantial fixes  for 12.1 and 12.0 across all platforms. Fixes include:

    Fixed infinite loop on addon dependencies, resolves crashing problem that arrose immediately post 12.1 launch
    Numerous UPnP fixes
    Memory leak fixed when XBMC is minimized
    Various Raspberry Pi playback fixes and software codec support
    Fixed OSX audio mixing
    Fixed some audio-related crashes in Linux builds
    AirPlay fixes
    Bluray folder resume-bookmarks now work
    Ability to scan for new content on file folders has been reimplemented
    Language updates from Transifex

Fixes from 12.1 included:

    XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
    XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
    Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
    Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
    iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
    XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
    Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
    Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
    Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
    Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
    AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
    Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC-Version 13: Airplay jetzt auch für Android
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 07 August, 2013, 16:40
Mit der neuen Alphaversion des kostenlosen Mediencenters XBMC kommt die Airplay-Unterstützung jetzt auch für Android-Geräte. Damit können Medieninhalte beispielsweise von einem iOS-Gerät an einen Android-TV-Stick übertragen werden.

XBMC hat die Version 13 (Gotham) seines Mediencenters veröffentlicht. Neben Verbesserungen wie Pop-up-Erklärungen im Einstellungsmenü und erweiterten Netzwerkeinstellungen unterstützt die Android-Version des Programms jetzt auch Apples Airplay. Seit XBMC 11 ist diese Funktion bereits für die Versionen für Windows, Mac OS X und Linux umgesetzt.

Damit können Medieninhalte wie Fotos, Musik oder Videos drahtlos von einer iOS- oder iTunes-Quelle an das Android-Gerät übertragen werden. Zunächst muss der Nutzer jedoch in den Einstellungen von XBMC unter Services die Airplay-Funktion aktivieren.

Der ganze Artikel (http://www.golem.de/news/xbmc-version-13-airplay-jetzt-auch-fuer-android-1308-100831.html)

Quelle : www.golem.de
Titel: XBMC 12.3 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Dezember, 2013, 08:00
Whats new: >>

Zitat
Fixes from 12.2 included:

    Fixed infinite loop on addon dependencies, resolves crashing problem that arrose immediately post 12.1 launch
    Numerous UPnP fixes
    Memory leak fixed when XBMC is minimized
    Various Raspberry Pi playback fixes and software codec support
    Fixed OSX audio mixing
    Fixed some audio-related crashes in Linux builds
    AirPlay fixes
    Bluray folder resume-bookmarks now work
    Ability to scan for new content on file folders has been reimplemented
    Language updates from Transifex

Fixes from 12.1 included:

    XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
    XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
    Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
    Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
    Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
    iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
    XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
    Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
    Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
    Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
    Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
    AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
    Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.0 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 März, 2014, 14:20
Changelog:

Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder):

Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence)
Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin

Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:

PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
DVBLink PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
DVBViewer PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community

Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager:

For full changelogs on changes to all Addons APIs, see Gotham API changes, the JSON-RPC Development Forum, and the Python Development Forum
Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
Added announce function and register addon for announcements to the Add-ons API
Added new Built-In function to control state of attached HDMI CEC device via Add-ons API
Added support for XBMC's Python interface to use native keyboard if possible (currently only iOS)
Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
Improved the ability to extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED Ambilight clone client software such as Boblight

GUI Engine (Skinning Engine):

For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Gotham API changes and the Skin Development Forum
Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
Added option support for both banner and poster music art types simultaneously
Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin (Touched)
Added ImageFactory implementation with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
Improved Dirty Regions rendering on all platforms
Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting

Platform Independent Playback:

Added support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
Added ability to play external audio track with videos
Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings
Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players
Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)

Library:

Added extensive MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database
Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them
Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality
Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
Added "Add art" button to video artwork selection dialog
Added support for "last played" sort option to the TV Show GUI
Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing

Web Scrapers:

Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos

AudioEngine:

Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE sink as the default for XBMC's AudioEngine
Added ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
Added PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
Added AUDIOTRACK sink for ActiveAE for Amlogic
Added Pi Audio sink for ActiveAE for Raspberry Pi
Added DirectSound sink for ActiveAE for Windows
Added WASAPI sink for ActiveAE for Windows
Added Darwin sink for ActiveAE for Mac OS X and iOS
Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS

Other:

Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
Added new "Fishbmc" audio visualization addon (only OpenGL versions for Linux and Mac OS X for now)
Added GUI settings levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard")
Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
Added possibility to define help descriptions ("I" key) for every setting in GUI settings
Added option to set auto login of a specific user profile via the GUI
Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
Added support to allow key IDs in keyboard.xml to be in hexadecimal format
Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via Transifex Translation System

Windows Specific:

Added support for Pixel Shader based HQ (High Quality) scalers for DXVA renderer on Windows
Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot)
Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later)

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.0 Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 März, 2014, 19:40
Whats new: >>

# Fixes

* Subtitles for videos over http should now support the same subtitle functions supported by local media (Note: Certain subtitle issues will only be fixed when non-default skins provide updates. Other fixes are in the works.)
* Rockchip devices on Android will no longer cause XBMC to crash occasionally during playback
* PVR Programming Guide cleanups
* AudioEngine improvements to handling AC3 and DTS, as well as smarter handling in Android and intelligent EAC3 recognition
* Crash on exit should be fixed on various platforms
* JSON-RPC file listing fixes
* DXVA fixes in Windows for older Intel GPUs
* Wording and grammar fixes throughout the UI
* Local music NFO files are now recognized correctly

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.0 Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 März, 2014, 11:03
Whats new: >>

* Android hardware video decoding support added to Exynos devices (such as Odroid or Exynos
* Various video and audio playback fixes
* Skip to DVD menu has now been brought on par with the automatic skip performed by VLC
* Wii controller support on Linux
* Language and description updates
* Other fixes

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13 Beta 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 20 April, 2014, 22:00
Whats new: >>

* Fix unwanted volume restore on Airplay volume
* Fix occasional crashing on GUI language changing
* Don’t drain Wii battery by disabling motion sensing
* Fix various problems when using NFS as media source
* Restore the music background playback ability for iOS
* Improved support for Amazon Fire-TV
* Fix various playback issues on Android
* Fix double application of 16-235 correction on DXVA-HD.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13 RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 April, 2014, 17:00
Infos zu dieser Version und Download : http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-0-gotham-release-candidate-1/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 13.0 Gotham erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Mai, 2014, 18:38
Infos zu dieser Version und Download : http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-0-gotham-rises/

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: Re: XBMC 13.0 Gotham erschienen
Beitrag von: Hans Vader am 11 Mai, 2014, 17:17
Infos zu dieser Version und Download : http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-0-gotham-rises/

http://xbmc.org/

Sieht ja recht schick aus :)
Aber es hat sich auch  intern etwas geändert. So musste ich meinen VdrServer ( Lubuntu 14.04 / x64) "hochrüsten".
Ansonsten bekam der Mediacenter kein Livebild mehr  "herein".
Das ganze läuft bei mir mit den  Vnsi - Server - Plugin‎.  Das Vnsi  - Protokoll wurde von Version 3 auf Version 5 umgestellt .


Die neuste Version gibt es wie immer hier : http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xbmc/quantal/main/base/vdr-plugin-vnsiserver (http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xbmc/quantal/main/base/vdr-plugin-vnsiserver)


Hier mal XBMC unter Windows 8.1 mit Spotify - Plugin und Aeon Nox Skin :
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.1 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 Mai, 2014, 12:26
whats new :>>

# Fixes

* Better recovery of VDPAU on errors.
* Fixes for cropping of interlaced content using VDPAU.
* Fix for FLAC tracks with large embedded images not playing.
* Fix for crash if librtmp wasn’t available.
* Fix for ffmpeg building on linux using later versions of librtmp.
* Fix for broken m4a, mp4 playback with paplayer.
* Fix for the hint text not being shown in editcontrols once unfocused.
* Fix minor memory leak in PlayMedia builtin function.
* Fix albumartist use in song smartplaylists.
* Use unique client broadcast UID in the PVR api.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 13.1 Gotham Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Mai, 2014, 06:00
whats new :>>

* Fix resume point of certain PVR items begin stale on playback.
* Fix weirdness when certain TVs query XBMC’s UPnP server and it
starts running a bunch of add-ons which cause popups on the XBMC
machine.
* Fix crash at exit while airplay is playing.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 13.1 Gotham RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 26 Mai, 2014, 06:00
Zitat
Now that more people are starting to use XBMC 13.0 codename “Gotham,” several issues have popped up which thorough testing hadn’t previously revealed. We have already released two  13.1 beta versions, which had several fixes and improvements compared to the 13.0 stable release. To that end, we are announcing this 13.1 RC1 release which include these fixes. Do note that this release contain only fixes, and no new features. Although we call this a release candidate release, it should be safe to install on top of your current 13.0 install, as changes are minimal and confirmed working. Should you find any problems, you can find how to report these at the bottom of this blog post.

This release candidate contains the fixes compared to previous 13.0

    * Fix resume point of certain PVR items begin stale on playback.
    * Fix weirdness when certain TVs query XBMC’s UPnP server and it
    starts running a bunch of add-ons which cause popups on the XBMC
    machine.
    * Fix crash at exit while airplay is playing
    * Better recovery of VDPAU on errors.
    * Fixes for cropping of interlaced content using VDPAU.
    * Fix for FLAC tracks with large embedded images not playing.
    * Fix for crash if librtmp wasn’t available.
    * Fix for ffmpeg building on linux using later versions of librtmp.
    * Fix for broken m4a, mp4 playback with paplayer.
    * Fix for the hint text not being shown in editcontrols once unfocused.
    * Fix minor memory leak in PlayMedia builtin function.
    * Fix albumartist use in song smartplaylists.
    * Use unique client broadcast UID in the PVR api.

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 06 Juni, 2014, 12:26
Release Notes
The folloeing changes have been made in this version of XBMC:
* Fix resume point of certain PVR items begin stale on playback.
* Fix weirdness when certain TVs query XBMC’s UPnP server and it starts running a bunch of add-ons which cause popups on the XBMC machine.
* Fix crash at exit while airplay is playing
* Better recovery of VDPAU on errors.
* Fixes for cropping of interlaced content using VDPAU.
* Fix for FLAC tracks with large embedded images not playing.
* Fix for crash if librtmp wasn’t available.
* Fix for ffmpeg building on linux using later versions of librtmp.
* Fix for broken m4a, mp4 playback with paplayer.
* Fix for the hint text not being shown in editcontrols once unfocused.
* Fix minor memory leak in PlayMedia builtin function.
* Fix albumartist use in song smartplaylists.
* Use unique client broadcast UID in the PVR api.
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http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 13.2 Gotham – Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 Juli, 2014, 16:05
Release Notes

About a month ago we released our 13.1 version which included several bug fixes compared to the 13.0 release. Because of the fact that not all fixes could be included in that point release, we now are happy to announce a 13.2 beta1 version. This includes an additional list of fixes, that should resolve some of the common problems reported by users. Unfortunately we cannot fix all things reported. Hopefully you will understand. Below you will find a list of most important fixes included in this release.

Do note that this release contain only fixes and no new features. So it should be safe to install on top of current 13.0 and 13.1 release. In due time we will of course release a 13.2 stable version after we are confident there are no regressions compared to 13.1 stable. Please read the important notice at the bottom as well. Should you find any problems, you can find how to report these at the bottom of this announcement.

Fixes

    * Fix onplaybackstarted event for external players
    * Don’t show OSD menu DVD menu with mouse/touch
    * GetText and delete sound option for add-on developers
    * Fix wrong sample-rate selection on OSX
    * Fix optical usb devices with > 2 channels on OSX
    * Fix firewall popups in OSX on start-up
    * Make the fake full-screen option only visible when running OSX snowleopard
    * Fix overlapping subtitles
    * Fix accented letters. Example: “VARIéS” rather than “VARIÉS”
    * Prompt for master pin in case the add-on manager is locked
    * Update GUI translations
    * Update included add-ons
    * Fixed several bugs and memory leaks


[close]

Quelle & weitere Infos und DL : http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-2-gotham-beta-1/
Titel: Aus XBMC wird Kodi
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 August, 2014, 06:50
Ab der Version 14 dürfen Nutzer sich an einen neuen Namen gewöhnen. Kodi ist der neue Name der Lösung, Grund ist zum einen die Verwechslung, da XBMC immer noch mit dem Xbox Media Center assoziiert wird, auf der anderen Seite findet man rechtliche Gründe vor, die in der Ankündigung (http://xbmc.org/introducing-kodi-14/) ausführlich beleuchtet werden.
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.2 Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 August, 2014, 13:45
whats new :>>

# Fixes

* Fix audio problems with pass-through on OSX
* Crash in Android if an app is favourite, then uninstalled from system.
* Fix crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins
* Bitstream conversion fix for some BD mkv iso rips

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC Media Center 13.2 RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 August, 2014, 07:31
whats new :>>

Fix audio problems with pass-through on OSX
Crash in Android if an app is favourite, then uninstalled from system.
Fix crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins
Bitstream conversion fix for some BD mkv iso rips
Fix labelcontrols with autowidth set were always marked as dirty (re-render)
Update included PVR add-on
Set “remote as keyboard” default to true for Android
Fix FTP TLS not working
Fix some disappearing characters on Mac OSX
Fix onplaybackstarted event for external players
Don’t show OSD menu DVD menu with mouse/touch
GetText and delete sound option for add-on developers
Fix wrong sample-rate selection on OSX
Fix optical usb devices with > 2 channels on OSX
Fix firewall popups in OSX on start-up
Make the fake full-screen option only visible when running OSX snowleopard
Fix overlapping subtitles
Fix accented letters. Example: “VARIéS” rather than “VARIÉS”
Prompt for master pin in case the add-on manager is locked
Update GUI translations
Update included add-ons
Fixed several bugs and memory leaks

http://xbmc.org/
Titel: XBMC 13.2 Gotham Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 August, 2014, 05:00
Zitat
After three beta releases and a release candidate, we are happy to announce the final 13.2 release. This follows a couple of months after the 13.1 release, and is considered a small bug fix release. Unfortunately we cannot fix all things reported. Below you will find a list of most important fixes included in this release.

Do note that this release only contains fixes and no new features. So it should be safe to install on top of any of the current 13.x releases. Please read the important notice at the bottom as well. Should you find any problems, you can find how to report these at the bottom of this announcement.

Fixes done in 13.2

    * Fix audio problems with pass-through on OSX
    * Crash in Android if an app is favourite, then uninstalled from system.
    * Fix crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins
    * Bitstream conversion fix for some BD mkv iso rips
    * Fix labelcontrols with autowidth set were always marked as dirty (re-render)
    * Update included PVR add-on
    * Set “remote as keyboard” default to true for Android
    * Fix FTP TLS not working
    * Fix some disappearing characters on Mac OSX
    * Fix onplaybackstarted event for external players
    * Don’t show OSD menu DVD menu with mouse/touch
    * GetText and delete sound option for add-on developers
    * Fix wrong sample-rate selection on OSX
    * Fix optical usb devices with > 2 channels on OSX
    * Fix firewall popups in OSX on start-up
    * Make the fake full-screen option only visible when running OSX snowleopard
    * Fix overlapping subtitles
    * Fix accented letters. Example: “VARIéS” rather than “VARIÉS”
    * Prompt for master pin in case the add-on manager is locked
    * Update GUI translations
    * Update included add-ons
    * Fixed several bugs and memory leaks

Quelle & weitere Infos und DL : http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-2-gotham-final-release/
Titel: Kodi 14.0 Helix Beta
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 November, 2014, 14:39
Zitat
It’s certainly been a few rough-and-tumble months, but we’re pleased to announce the release of Beta cycle for Kodi 14.0 Helix.

This release brings many updates and changes, not the least of which being the name of the software. For those of you curious, we’ve now taken the top 10 or so vote getters in the logo vote and submitted them to doghousemedia to see how they might pull the best qualities out of all of them and combine those qualities into the best possible logo for the organization. As we continue down this path, we’ll do our best to keep you updated.

With that said, let’s take a look at some of the features that come with Beta.

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-beta-1-springs-forward/
Titel: Kodi (formerly XBMC) 14.0 RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 Dezember, 2014, 13:24
Changelog
The Next Generation of Video Codecs:

To begin, Kodi has been updated to use FFmpeg 2.4.3 For users, this means Kodi will now be capable of playing back h.265 (also known as HEVC) and VP9 video codecs. This could result in dramatically smaller video files sizes with exactly the same level of quality. A 40 GB file could be compressed to 20 GB. A 1 GB file could be compressed to 500 MB without any loss in perceivable quality. Users with particularly large libraries or interest in 4K video may be especially likely to appreciate this update. Software support for the VP9 video codec is also included.
The caveat to this update is that it is entirely software based. This means most low power systems, such as those operating Android or iOS, may struggle compared to the heftier HTPCs or Intel NUCs and ZOTAC ZBOXes that are running desktop and laptop processors.

Library Improvements:

The Kodi Library is getting improvements both coming in and going out. On the input side, library scanning is receiving a massive speed boost, which should make the initial scan on Android and iOS devices quite a bit more spiritedly.
On the output side, work continues, slowly but surely, on UPnP. Kodi is now significantly more compatible with servers like PlayOn and MediaBrowser, as client-related bugs have been dealt with. Further, communication between Kodi UPnP clients and Kodi UPnP servers continues to improve with proper or additional support for categories like date added, ratings, votes, and artwork, along with sorting for those new categories. UPnP search functions are also slowly working their way into Kodi.

More User Control Over Kodi:

Two new features have been introduced with Kodi that should give users even more control over how the software works. First, users can now prevent add-ons from updating without a forced update, prevent add-on update notifications, or simply continue to work with add-ons auto-updating as they do today. To change add-on update settings, visit the Add-ons folder in System Settings, if you are using Confluence, click left with your keyboard or remote to open the side panel, where a number of options exist, including the option to hide any add-ons that aren’t expected to work in your region.
Second, in the past the virtual keyboard on the screen that users of tablets and remote controls are forced to deal with has always been set to the western standard QWERTY style. It is now possible to change the layout to a variety of other language options. To do so, visit the International section of the Appearance folder in System Settings and select Keyboard layouts. (Pro-tip: If you are an English speaker living in the US, Australia, or New Zealand, you can also select a version of English that better suits your spelling style from the Language portion of the International section.)

Android, iOS, and embedded:

On the Android side, hardware playback improvements continue, including more and better support for various chipsets, improved fast forward and rewind capability, as well as 4K support for the AMLogic s802 chipset. On the iOS side, Airplay, which was fairly substantially broken by the update to iOS 7, appears to be almost entirely fixed on every platform save Android, which lacks certain software support, making Airplay playback only partially fixed on that platform. Additionally, support for the Freescale i.MX6 SystemOnChip has been added.
Furthermore, for you tablet users, we’ve now replaced the ageing Touched skin with the improved Re-Touched skin, which includes a number of tweaks to bring it more in line with the features Kodi has to offer.

Windows, OSX, and Linux:

All three platforms continue to see improvements in audio playback and a reduction of many audio-related bugs that have been plaguing the platforms for a long time. Windows also sees improvement in DXVA video playback.

PVR:

American PVR users will be happy to learn that Kodi 14 introduces support for ATSC sub-channels. All users of PVR may be happy to learn that all PVR windows have been rebuilt to be better and more efficient.
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Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-release-candidate-arives/
Titel: Kodi (XBMC) 14.0 RC 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 Dezember, 2014, 13:30
Whats new:>>

Bump FFmpeg to 2.4.4
Fix problem with setting content on new and existing video sources
Fix spinner in video settings for choosing hardware or software decoding
Fix recording history in PVR
Separate sort order in PVR window for each directory
Fix PVR preview video scaling for AMLCodec on Android
Fix restart option on Win 8.1
Fix crashes on certain Intel GPU when playing video
Fix crashes on certain videos on Android 5.0 devices (Nexus Player and ADT-1)
Fix LPCM (audio/L16) streaming via UPnP
Use correct art type when appending art to item lists
Fix python PIL package on Windows that caused crash on weather add-on
Updated GUI translation files

Quelle & weitere Infos und DL : http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-release-candidate-3/
Titel: Mediacenter Kodi 14.0 Helix erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 24 Dezember, 2014, 08:30
Zitat
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! We are proud to announce the release of Kodi 14.0, which comes with a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software we all love.

A detailed changelog for Kodi 14 can be found under milestones on our code repository, should you be interested. With that said, let’s take a look at some of the features that come with Kodi 14.0.

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-unwinds/
Titel: Kodi 14.1 Helix
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 Februar, 2015, 05:05
Whats new:>>

Fixes

* Fix incorrect video screensize on Android AML devices
* Fix: potential segfault when silencing audio
* Fix: do not skip streaminfo if format is not know.
* Fix: DXVA flickering on AMD
* Fix: prevent possible over-flow in ALSA
* Fix: possible sorting problems in library
* Fix: possible problem in library navigation
* Fix: don’t scroll text when it’s set to not do it
* Fix: scroll text if it’s too long on spinner controls
* Fix: don’t overlap PVR search labels
* Fix: bug in DLNA client string on iOS
* Fix: updated several PVR add-ons
* Fix: remember played state of video when started from recently added
* Fix: correct vsync on OSX
* Fix: broken keyboard input
* Fix: prevent crash on circular dependencies of add-ons
* Fix: large file support on Android
* Fix: random exiting on Android x86 builds (Nexus Player for example)

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-1-helix-bugfix-release/
Titel: Kodi 14.2 Helix Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 Februar, 2015, 13:23
Whats new:>>

* Fix: Application stopped responding on Windows
* Fix: Gap-less playback on MP3
* Fix: Playback of rtmp protocol
* Fix: Scanning of newly added episodes
* Fix: Fix multipath source scanning
* Fix: Loading external subtitles in some cases
* Fix: packaging of PIL module on Android. This fixes some script error when using weather add-on
* Fix: Fix video playback on all platform after refresh rate change
* Fix: Various bugs that were present in PVR add-ons.
* Feature: Bump OSX SDK to 10.10

Weitere Infos und DL ->  https://kodi.tv/kodi-14-2-helix-beta-1-some-more-fixes/
Titel: Media Center Kodi 15.0 Alpha 1: Auf nach Isengard
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 März, 2015, 13:24
Die Entwickler der freien und plattformübergreifenden Media-Center-Software Kodi (früher XBMC) haben die erste Alpha der kommenden Version 15.x "Isengard" veröffentlicht.

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Zwei Monate nach der Veröffentlichung von Kodi 14.0 ("Helix") steht die erste öffentliche Alpha-Version des kommenden Kodi 15.0 alias "Isengard" zum Download bereit. Die Anspielung auf Mittelerde hat sie im Wesentlichen einem Besuch des Kodi-Artworkers da-anda in Neuseeland zu verdanken.

Die funktionalen Neuerungen der Alpha sind noch überschaubar: Zu den wichtigen zählt das adaptive Suchen in Audio/Video-Inhalten (Skip Steps). Nun kann man die Schrittweiten und die Verzögerung beim Wechseln zur nächsten Sprungstufe konfigurieren und über die advancedsettings.xml sogar eigene Stufen definieren.

Außerdem wird Kodi 15 externe Untertitel bei der Wiedergabe über UPnP AV/DLNA unterstützen, verbessert den Umgang mit Untertiteln für Hörgeschädigte bei Live-TV (Closed Captions) und beherrscht auf einigen Android-Geräten nun den neuen Videostandard HEVC/H.265. Neben den bisher in Python geschriebenen Add-ons sollen sich künftig auch binäre Add-ons in Kodi einbinden lassen.

Die meisten anderen Änderungen zielen auf mehr Stabiliät. Außerdem haben die Entwickler Sonderlocken abgeschnitten und die verwendeten SDKs aktualisiert. Das hat zur Folge, dass Mac-Nutzer für Kodi 15 mindestens OS X 10.7 (64 Bit) benötigen, auf Apples Mobilgeräten (Jailbreak erforderlich) läuft Kodi 15 ab iOS 5.1, Android-Nutzer benötigen 4.2 (Jelly Bean MR1). Bereits im Januar hatte das Kodi-Team die Entwicklung für das Apple TV 2 eingestellt, hier ist mit dem aktuellen Kodi 14.1 Schluss.

Quelle : www.heise.de
Titel: Kodi 14.2 Helix erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 28 März, 2015, 11:15
Whats new:>>

* Fix: Application stopped responding on Windows
* Fix: Gap-less playback on MP3
* Fix: Playback of rtmp protocol
* Fix: Scanning of newly added episodes
* Fix: Fix multipath source scanning
* Fix: Loading external subtitles in some cases
* Fix: packaging of PIL module on Android. This fixes some script error when using weather add-on
* Fix: Fix video playback on all platform after refresh rate change
* Fix: Various bugs that were present in PVR add-ons.
* Fix: Save weather location
* Fix: Fix filtering of foreign add-ons
* Fix: ftps handling
* Fix: use LastWrite instead of ChangeTime for file system on Windows
* Feature: Bump OSX SDK to 10.10

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-2-helix-the-final-translation/
Titel: Kodi 15.0 Isengard – Alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 April, 2015, 18:45
Zitat
In many ways, we could call Isengard the release that finally answers many of the oldest requests we have. With Alpha1 we introduced Skip Steps, which allow the user to more naturally and organically find the exact moment they are attempting to skip to in the show or movie, a request that’s existed since at least 2009. We also implemented external subtitle support over UPnP, another very old feature request. This month, we’ve added a few more.

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-alpha-2/
Titel: Kodi (XBMC) 15.0 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 Mai, 2015, 10:00
Changelog
Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units
Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements
Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
Improvement of installing new skins selection
Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
Removal of AFP filesystem support
Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
Improve webserver caching control
External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas
Changed code to C++11
Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
On Android the system now handles the volume
General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
[close]

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-beta-1/
Titel: Kodi 15.0 Isengard – Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 Juni, 2015, 21:30
Zitat
Here it is, the second beta build for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! A little later than originally planned though, which we’ll explain later. Although we said that Kodi 15.0 a “clean-up” edition, we still managed to squeeze in a couple of really nice features. In total we had ~180 code change requests which were included since last beta release. All this sums up in a pretty big list of improvements and clean-up. As such we will only highlight some of the bigger changes.

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-beta-2/
Titel: Kodi 15.0 RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 Juli, 2015, 13:00
Changelog
[favourites] handle pictures via showpicture builtin
[pvr] [libplatform] Bump pvr add-ons and libplatform
[gitigonre] Another android artifact
[pvr] fix CPVRChannelGroup::OnSettingChanged won't get called
CHG: [droid] add external storage path to initial status log
FIX: [droid] limit 4K to Shield TV + allow override
[pvr] bump add-ons to their Isengard branch
[pvr] fix: delete of empty group with an invalid id ends up in deleting the wrong group
FIX: [droid] fix volume handling
[pvr] sort equal client channel numbers by name if not sub-channels Fix Improvement
[omxplayer] Change in interlace state is not an error in log
FIX: [droid] fix crash when restarted by system
[videodb] fix yet some more query typos Fix
Added Lithuanian keyboard layout
[pvr] bump pvr.vbox to 1.3.4
[videodb] use GetNavCommon for tags Cleanup Fix
fixed: Don't do GetLength() off-thread is it may be (b)locked by a pending read()
[dvdplayer][fix] Initialize SelectionStream members.
[pvr] bump pvr.vbox to 1.3.3
[addons] force repository update in post-install/uninstall
[confluence] increase button group height in the PVR group manager dialog Fix
[pvr.wmc] Fix android lib name (fixes #16044) Fix
music library: don't force a rescan after update past version 35 if not needed Improvement
[close]

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-rc-1/
Titel: Kodi 15 Isengard RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 12 Juli, 2015, 15:12
Changelog
• Fix endless loop in PVR section which causes high CPU load
• Fix crash on opening conext menu item
• Fix sorting by episodes
• Don’t try to use hardware decoding for h264/10bit video files (don’t confuse with h265/10bit)
• Fix playback of certain HEVC files
• Avoid freezing/deadlock in peripheralmanager
• Fix genres in smartplaylists
• Fix grouping by artists in smartplaylists
• Fix video calibration for Android
• Make sure to download the OBB file when Play Store doesn’t
• Some other technical changes….
[close]

Weitere Infos und DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-rc-2/
Titel: Kodi (XBMC Media Center) 15.0 Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 Juli, 2015, 06:10
Changelog
Kodi 15.0 Features:

A new chapter selector window - Allows you to visually browse and select chapters from mkvs and other containers that support chapters.
Adaptive seeking (aka Skip Steps) - The more times you press a button to seek in a period of time, the larger the jump forward or backward will be.
Audio and Subtitle Lists - For content that includes multiple audio and subtitle choices, you can select from a full list of choices, rather than manually searching through a spinner.
Language Add-ons and Expanded International Preferences - Now language translations aren't dependent upon release, but get regularly updated to all users as the add-ons themselves update. Additionally, you now have total control over date, time, temperature and more displayed formats.
Improved Add-on Manager - The add-on manager has now been reworked to help make finding the add-ons you are looking for easier.

Other improvements include:

FFmpeg 2.6.3 update
Improved Closed Captioning support in Live TV
Fixed music video queuing
Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as "update library"
Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist

Changes from 14.2 to 15.0 include:

Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
Minimal iOS 5.1 required and ATV2 support discontinued
Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
Ubuntu 12.04 support dropped in PPA
On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
Removal of AFP filesystem support
Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
[close]

http://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 15.1 Isengard RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 August, 2015, 18:00
Changelog

Fixes done in this RC 1 version

    • Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
    • Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
    • [pvr] fix stuttering introduced
    • Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS5.1 devices
    • Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
    • Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
    • [pvr] fix holding lock while querying backend
    • Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
    • Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint
    • [guilib] update label color for sliderex controls
    • CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
    • [pvr] fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
    • FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
    • Handle startup splash as regular window
    • [ios] – fix linkage for VTB framework for ios < 6 – fixes vtb on ios
    • [ios] – fix broken native keyboard on ios 5.1.1 devices
    • fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
[close]

Quelle & Download : http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-1-isengard-release-candidate/

http://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 15.1 Isengard
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 17 August, 2015, 09:23
Changelog
Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
Fix stuttering in PVR windows
Fix holding lock while querying PVR backend
Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS 5.1 devices
Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint for OSX
Update label color for sliderex controls
CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
Fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
Handle startup splash as regular window
Fix linkage for VTB framework for iOS < 6 – fixes VTB on iOS
Fix broken native keyboard on iOS 5.1.1 devices
Fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
Make some virtual filesystems available when no network is available yet
Fix formatting on mysql queries that could cause crash on update
Only set mouse wheel control spin and slider controls when they are actually focusses
Respect view mode changes of EPG when controlling number of EPG updates
Handle startup splash as regular window which prevent problems if PVR or masterlock is used as startup window
Fix watched flag not displaying if item is also resume-able
Remove some logging on exiting that could crash on exit in some cases
Fix overlapping subtitles in some cases
[close]

http://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 15.2 Isengard RC
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 August, 2015, 09:00
Changelog
• Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
• Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
• Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
• Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
• Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
• Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
• Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
• Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
• Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
• Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
• Fix fallback for nb_no language
• Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
• Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view
[close]

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-2-isengard-release-candidate/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Jarvis Alpha
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 07 September, 2015, 19:20
Changelog
* Start of integration of ADSP handling (no add-ons shipped yet)
* Improve image resizing and caching algorithm to improve image quality of images
* Added support for the musicbrainz “ARTISTS” tag in id3v2, ape, xiph.
* Add date added to music library and use it for sorting
* Support saving skin settings as add-on data instead of in guisettings.xml
* Image resource add-ons which provides common image libraries than can be used by several skins and add-ons.
* Don’t mess with the long and short date formats defined in the language files
* Win32: Proper 24.0/60.0 Hz refresh rate in fake fullscreen mode
* Add sort method for albums “artist / year”. This will sort the albums chronological per artist.
* Moved some add-on categories to “look and feel” in add-on manager
* Series recording added for PVR
* Add a “none” option for preferred subtitles
[close]

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-alpha-jarvis-at-your-service/
Titel: Kodi 15.2 Isengard RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 20 September, 2015, 18:00
Fixes done in this RC 2 version

    • Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
    • Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
    • Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
    • Fix MicroDVD subtitles
    • Fix subtitles positioning below video
    • Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
    • Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-2-isengard-release-candidate-2/
Titel: Kodi 16: Alpha 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Oktober, 2015, 11:37
Whats new:>>

    • Three finger touchpad mapping in iOS to make room for new tablet gestures which will be available in Alpha 4 to complement existing tablet gestures.
    • Kodi now supports being compiled with Xcode 7
    • The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
    • The Music Library and Files View for music have now been unified, similar to how video files and library are unified

Needless to say, this is not the entire list of fixes and features for Alpha 3, but that list is quite long and tends to focus on under-the-hood items that are mostly of interest to other devs, skinners, and add-on writers. As these under-the-hood changes begin to work their way up to the user experience, we’ll do our best to detail them here.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-alpha-3/
Titel: Kodi 15.2 Isengard – Release Candidate 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Oktober, 2015, 15:31
Zitat
Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them, as soon as million started using it, some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice popped up. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this second maintenance release candidate called 15.2 RC3 which has some additional fixes on top of the 15.0 and 15.1 release.

Whats new:>>

• Fix non DVB subtitles
• Fix incompatible MySQL queries
• Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
• Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
• Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
• Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-2-isengard-release-candidate-3/
Titel: Kodi 15.2 Isengard – Final Chapter
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Oktober, 2015, 17:06
Zitat
Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them, as soon as million started using it, some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice popped up. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this second maintenance release 15.2 which has some additional fixes on top of the 15.0 and 15.1 release.

Fixes done in this 15.2 version

• Fix non DVB subtitles
• Fix incompatible MySQL queries
• Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
• Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
• Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
• Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API
• Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
• Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
• Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
• Fix MicroDVD subtitles
• Fix subtitles positioning below video
• Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
• Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP
• Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
• Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
• Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
• Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
• Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
• Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
• Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
• Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
• Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
• Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
• Fix fallback for nb_no language
• Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
• Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-2-isengard-final-release/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Alpha 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 02 November, 2015, 04:30
Whats new:>>

    • Properly handle wired or bluetooth headsets on Android and only use PCM output
    • Fix playback of VP9 and VC1 video codecs on Android
    • Use best possible icons from other Android apps while browsing these in Kodi
    • Enable true 1920×1080 output on AMLogic device without up-scaling
    • Add Korean, Chinese and Chech keyboards
    • Add multi-touch support for Linux platform
    • Improve touch-screen keymapping
    • Add stereoscopic depth for Confluence skin
    • The item that you had previously chosen will now be selected in the selection list instead of just starting at the top of the list
    • Decouple Kodi and system volume on Android which removes the double audio volume slider
    • Karaoke support has been completely removed as it wasn’t functional
    • Further improve DX11 implementation in Windows
    • iOS9 support
    • Various PVR fixes and improvements
    • Various improvements to the music section

Needless to say, this is not the entire list of fixes and features for Alpha 4, but that list is quite long and tends to focus on under-the-hood items that are mostly of interest to other devs, skinners, and add-on writers. As these under-the-hood changes begin to work their way up to the user experience, we’ll do our best to detail them here.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-alpha-4-jarvis-nearing-completion/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 15 November, 2015, 20:00
Zitat
Only three weeks ago we announced 15.2 which is the last release of the Kodi version 15 range and now we’re announcing the first beta of version 16. What does this means for users? That after four months of alpha versions we have changed to the beta stage and working towards a final Kodi 16 release. The past four months the developers worked hard behind the scenes on further improving what is already a great piece of software. Lot’s of code clean-up and improving stability, with a dash of features added here and there. To not bore every one with all the technical changes we’ll dive into some of the most noticeable newly added features.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-beta-1-jarvis-is-getting-ready/
Titel: Kodi 16 Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 November, 2015, 14:05
Changelog
New in this beta:

Well not exactly new but certainly something that got overlooked a lot is getting your music scanned to library. For videos it’s quite obvious there’s a library where you can scan in all your movies and tv show from your local or remote storage. Setting this up is relatively straight forward because when you add a source it immediately asks if you want to add it to the library. For music this was anything but obvious. You add a new music source which contain all your music files and that was it. Although that was how it seemed. Somewhere hidden in the context menu (which you pull up with right or using “C” key) there was an option scan to library. This magically started scanning your music files and reading all the tag data which contain artist, title, year and whatever more in a nicely organised library. Time to make it more obvious. After you added a new music file source it will now ask you if you want to scan all the files in that folder using the tag data in those files and organise it for you.

Fixes done in this beta 2:

Fixed: Library export now shows the correct dialogs
Fixed: Don’t include broken add-ons in the update panel which is accessed through add-on information
Fixed: Next recording widget for PVR
Fixed: Timer dialog fixes for PVR
Fixed: Ignore volume changes on corked sink for Pulse
Fixed: Don’t show repeating timers on PVR recording list
Fixed: Redact file name in log output for smb://
[close]

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-beta-2-jarvis-is-getting-ready-2/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 06 Dezember, 2015, 18:00
Zitat
With this announcement we are releasing beta 3. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it now only has several which gives a better overview. The advantage of that is possible regressions get picked up way faster and that you as user also get the benefit of not having to wait a long time to get these fixes.

This Release Early Release Often (RERO) is what we as a team have decided to go forward with as we see the benefits of this approach. Our developers don’t have to wait a very long time before their features get included in a release and you a user will also get to try them out without having to wait many months. Enough about the RERO approach as we’ll soon devote a special review about this.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-beta-3-jarvis-is-getting-ready-3/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Beta 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 Dezember, 2015, 21:00
Zitat
With this announcement we are releasing beta 4. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it now only has several which gives a better overview. The advantage of that is possible regressions get picked up way faster and that you as user also get the benefit of not having to wait a long time to get these fixes.

This Release Early Release Often (RERO) is what we as a team have decided to go forward with as we see the benefits of this approach. Our developers don’t have to wait a very long time before their features get included in a release and you a user will also get to try them out without having to wait many months. Enough about the RERO approach as we’ll soon devote a special review about this.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-beta-4-jarvis-is-getting-ready-4/
Titel: Kore – Android remote v2.0.0
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 23 Dezember, 2015, 16:30
Zitat
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 a big update.  Our developer SyncedSynapse has 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 500.000 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.

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kore-android-remote-v2-0-0-update/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 Beta 5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 11 Januar, 2016, 18:00
Fixes done in this beta 5:

    • Improved: better remote keymap for longpress functionality
    • Fixed: correctly save skin setting when changing profiles
    • Fixed: prefer forced subtitle in settings was not working
    • Fixed: prevent crash on scanning certain mp3 files
    • Fixed: correct numeric input in some PVR windows
    • Fixed: better handling of some rotated recorded video files
    • Fixed: fixed non working deinterlacer for DXVA on Windows
    • Fixed: certain animated GIF files wouldn’t display correctly
    • Fixed: a variety of code fixes that are too technical to mention

Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-beta-5-last-jarvis-beta/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 21 Januar, 2016, 19:00
Changelog

• Implement the more future proof DirectX11 for Windows which still works for DirectX9 video cards;
• Event logging which among others shows which video files didn’t got added to your library;
• Skin settings are now stored as separate files like any other add-on which makes migrating settings a lot easier;
• Image resource add-ons which provide a single point of entry for skins to share common used images like movie studio icons and record labels which saves quite a lot of space and bandwidth;
• Audio DSP  (Digital Signal Processing)  add-on integration and are already included which could make things possible like equalizers, sound processing, fake surround and more
• PVR/DVR section has been extended and improved massively which now also handles series recording
• Music library improvements which includes asking to scan to library when adding locations and also better tag scanning
• Button long-press which extends the functionality of a single button to handle two functions which is great for button deprived remotes
• User interface now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for 3D TVs or VR headsets
• Extend the UPnP server/client integration between Kodi installations
• Android now support a Surface Rendering which keeps the interface at normal HD resolution while allows playback of 4K on supported devices
• Removal of the infamous libstagefright on Android  which served us for the past year while the Android platform matured to a fully fetaured MediaCodec
• Add-on manager underwent heavy changes which includes slightly different structure, per add-on auto-update on/off switch, better update/rollback support to choose from repos,
• Extend the included keyboard layouts which includes Korean and Chinese
• Improved multi-touch support which now also works on Linux
• Gives skin developers a more reliable platform to work from and reduce amount of work for adapting to new Kodi versions
• Greatly improved audio and video playback in general

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Weitere Infos & DL -> http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-jarvis-release-candidate-1/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Januar, 2016, 12:24
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/
Titel: Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” RC 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 Februar, 2016, 07:00
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/
Titel: Unseriöse Anbieter und Erweiterungen machen Kodi zu schaffen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 Februar, 2016, 13:57
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
Titel: Kodi v16 (Jarvis) Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 21 Februar, 2016, 06:30
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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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 16.1 RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 07 März, 2016, 09:19
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

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 16.1 RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 28 März, 2016, 21:00
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

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 16.1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 24 April, 2016, 14:30
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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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kore – Android remote v2.1.0 Update
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 Juli, 2016, 19:45
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.

(https://kodi.tv/wp-content/uploads/Kore_Artwork_1024x500_v2_samfisher-600x336.png)

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/
Titel: Kodi 17.0 Alpha 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 August, 2016, 19:40
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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Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 August, 2016, 16:00
Zitat
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/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 September, 2016, 18:00
Zitat
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 (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/milestone/88?closed=1)

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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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-2/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 Oktober, 2016, 13:50
Zitat
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/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Oktober, 2016, 11:00
Zitat
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/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Oktober, 2016, 10:00
Zitat
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/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 6
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 Dezember, 2016, 05:30
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/
Titel: Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 7
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Dezember, 2016, 21:00
Changelog

Fixes done in this Beta 7:

Update Estuary and Estouchy skin with some bugfixes
Enable IEC61937 audio passthrough support on Android for DTS-HD, TrueHD, DTS:X and ATMOS in case the Android version supports this
Fix PVR channel OSD display conditions
Fix possible crash in PVR EPG
Fix multiple selection in file browser
Fix duplicate context menu for PVR recordings
Fix wrong window size on OSX
Fix problem on Windows that currently in use skins couldn’t be updated
Further improvement of cmake build system
Various other improvements and fixes

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Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-the-last-beta-7/
Titel: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 30 Dezember, 2016, 11:00
Zitat
We want to close the year 2016 with a blast and as such we are happy to announce this Release Candidate of Kodi v17.0 Krypton. This final Kodi v17.0 will be action packed with a lot of features, changes and bug fixes and we left no stone unturned. Nearly every section had at least some maintenance done to make Kodi better than it already was.

First and foremost we sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with answering their questions. Now that is done lets look at the biggest changes that were done.

Quelle & weitere Infos : https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-release-candidate-1/

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Titel: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 31 Dezember, 2016, 19:46
Zitat
UPDATE: Due to some packaging problems for Android and initial response we had to do quick bump to RC2 to solve this. If you had downloaded and installed RC1 before 31 December (available from system information) please upgrade to the newer version.
Titel: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 Januar, 2017, 12:20
Zitat
Just before New Years’s day we released our first official Release Candidate which marks the final step towards the final release of v17.0. These Release Candidate builds are dedicated to gain further feedback from users who are willing to take the jump towards v17 and we sure are grateful if they do as that provides valuable information on general stability and usability. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have. We do want to note that since we are just a small team some of the reported bugs might not get fixed due to lack of developers or time. As such we would certainly welcome any developer who has the ability to help us out to try and fix the bugs he or she encounters and submit it to our code base for review. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with answering their questions.

Changelog

Fixes done in this release candidate:

Update Estuary with some bugfixes and improvements
Revert change that cause video playback problems on some files
Several fixes regarding general video playback
Several fixes regarding EPG/PVR
Several fixes and improvements regarding cmake build system
Update to CEC 4.0.1

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-0-krypton-release-candidate-3/

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Titel: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 27 Januar, 2017, 16:46
Zitat
This is the fourth Release Candidate for our upcoming v17.0 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve v17.0 before we make it final. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have. We do want to note that since we are just a small team some of the reported bugs might not get fixed due to lack of developers or time. As such we would certainly welcome any developer who has the ability to help us out to try and fix the bugs he or she encounters and submit it to our code base for review. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with answering their questions.

Changelog

• Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
• Fix Kodi not starting on some phones running Android 7
• Revert changes that disabled plugin listing cache that which caused reduced browsing speed
• Fix the cause of favourites not refreshing
• Fix add-ons not being added to favourites if done through add-on manager
• Update our default webinterface Chorus2 with several fixes and features
• Fix possible deadlock when installing/uninstalling PVR add-ons
• Fix possible failed add-on installs on Windows with a retry
• Fix changing song ratings
• Make sure to stop playback before uninstalling a PVR add-on
• Try to handle graphics failures due to bad graphics driver on Windows
• Fix long timeout for certain audio streams

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-0-krypton-release-candidate-4/

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Titel: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 Februar, 2017, 17:00
Die Entwickler der freien Media-Center-Software Kodi haben die Version 17 mit dem Projektnamen »Krypton« freigegeben. Neu in der aktuellen Version sind unter anderem die neue Standardoberflächen »Estuary« und »Estouchy« sowie zahlreiche Optimierungen des Video-Players.

Changelog (http://kodi.wiki/view/Kodi_v17_(Krypton)_changelog)

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Titel: Kodi v17.1 “Krypton” Release Candidate 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 24 Februar, 2017, 13:50
Changelog

Fixes done in this release candidate:

• Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
• Fix EDL skipping
• Fix slow song smartplaylist
• Several PVR fixes
• Update Chorus webinterface
• Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
• Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
• Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
• Improve analog stick handling
• Improve plugin performance when building the content list
• Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-1-krypton-release-candidate-1/

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Titel: Kodi v17.1 “Krypton”
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 März, 2017, 18:00
Zitat
This is the bugfix release for v17.1 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 release. Our team tried to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have. We do want to note that since we are just a small team some of the reported bugs might not get fixed due to lack of developers or time. As such we would certainly welcome any developer who has the ability to help us out to try and fix the bugs he or she encounters and submit it to our code base for review. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with answering their questions.

Fixes done in this release:

Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
Fix EDL skipping
Fix slow song smartplaylist
Several PVR fixes
Update Chorus webinterface
Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
Improve analog stick handling
Improve plugin performance when building the content list
Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows
Don’t close subtitle stream when switching audio
Fix replaygain for music files
Fix controllers buttons on Android
Fix music cleanup hanging on large MySQL music database
Fix use of SMB on Android on new installs
Fix possible Kodi upgrade migration hang during add-on update process
Add check in Windows installer for Service Packs and updates that Kodi needs to operate
Don’t try to read tags from internet audio streams
Add setting to disable controller rumble on notifications

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-1-krypton/

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Titel: Kodi 17.2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 24 Mai, 2017, 05:00
Changelog

- Fix selection after channelgroup switching in PVR guide window
- Fix handling of gaps that caused eradic behaviour in EPG grid
- Allow backing out of fullscreen pictures by mapping longpress guesture
- Quick fix for wake up command not being called in PVR power management
- Use alternative method to check if platform updates have been installed on Windows
- Set the minimum version in the code which is currently OSX 10.8
- Fix possible security flaw which could abused .zip files which try to traverse to a parent directory
- Use the correct ttc font from the video file for subtitles on Windows
- Detect and delete zero-byte database files which causes crashes

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v172-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release

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Titel: Kodi v17.3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Mai, 2017, 10:00
Zitat
Sorry for this quick bump to v17.3 however we deemed it necessary. In the previous v17.2 we had a slight issue due to packaging certain binary add-ons like PVR, visualisation and Inputstream. Sadly we only uncovered this too late after release. Additionally on the older distros like Ubuntu 14.04 in combination with the available GCC 4.8 compiler an issue surfaced which we had to fix as well. This v17.3 release fixed both these issues and should be completely working again including the missing add-ons.

Fixes done in this release:

    Fixed missing binary add-ons on release time
    Fixed crash on older distros like Ubuntu 14.04 with GCC 4.8 compiler

Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v173-minor-bug-fix-and-security-release

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Titel: Kodi v18 Windows 64-bit
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Juni, 2017, 18:00
Zitat
After years of work we can finally announce that Kodi v18 will be available as full 64-bit Windows application. This means we run 64-bit on all capable platforms which is quite the achievement.

What took you so long?

You have to understand that Kodi is a very complicated piece of software and there wasn’t a simple switch to say give me 64-bit. Since 2012 users have been asking for a 64-bit version as it was supposed to be a lot better. Over the years there has been no obvious proof that switching to 64-bit actually had any benefits for the Kodi application. In the meantime other platforms like Linux, OSX and even Android did move onward and received a 64-bit version. Only the past year or two we have slowly been seeing benefits with all the new video formats coming out and the increased development support for FFmpeg which is at the core of our audio and video playback. So then what hold you guys back so long is what you might ask? This answer is actually quite complicated and has to do with things like how we compile the code and the external code libraries available.

Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-windows-64-bit-here

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Titel: Kodi v17.4 RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 August, 2017, 15:00
Zitat
It has been a while since we released 17.3 release where we fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix issues for the current release when we can. To give these fixes a proper test run before we call it final we first want to make this release candidate available for the wider audience who might be facing some of these issues we have fixed. Just browse the list below and give it a try.

Changelog

Potentially fix crashing on Windows due to an issue in Python
Potentially fix crashing on Windows when enabling zeroconf
Fix sporadic crash on Windows when installing or updating add-ons
Fix issue for users with reverse proxies attempting to forward websockets.
Fix possible issue if Linux distro uses system ffmpeg and cause black screen with 10-bit H.265
Properly throttle scraping music information online to prevent overloading the provider
Fix native keyboard on iOS 11
Fix potential crash on Android O loading App icons
Fix non showing Kodi banner on Android O
Fix potential crash on Android with certain keymaps
Fix wrong detection of VP6 and VP8 videocodec on Android
Update FFmpeg to 3.1.9
Set hard requirement to use FFmpeg 3.1.x only
Fix for Hangup when viewing recording and pressing next/previous
Fix merged scraped album type and label correctly with that derived from tags from music files

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v174-rc1-just-bunch-fixes

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Titel: Kodi v17.4 Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 August, 2017, 17:40
Zitat
It has been a while since we released 17.3 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.4 where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix issues for the current release when we can. We recommend every one to upgrade to this version once it's available for their platform to have the best experience possible. If you want to know what has changed you can browse the list below.

Changelog

Fixes done in this release:

    Potentially fix crashing on Windows due to an issue in Python
    Potentially fix crashing on Windows when enabling zeroconf
    Fix sporadic crash on Windows when installing or updating add-ons
    Fix issue for users with reverse proxies attempting to forward websockets.
    Fix possible issue if Linux distro uses system ffmpeg and cause black screen with 10-bit H.265
    Properly throttle scraping music information online to prevent overloading the provider
    Fix native keyboard on iOS 11
    Fix potential crash on Android O loading App icons
    Fix non showing Kodi banner on Android O
    Fix potential crash on Android with certain keymaps
    Fix wrong detection of VP6 and VP8 videocodec on Android
    Update FFmpeg to 3.1.9
    Set hard requirement to use FFmpeg 3.1.x only
    Fix for Hangup when viewing recording and pressing next/previous
    Fix merged scraped album type and label correctly with that derived from tags from music files
    Fix possible crash on Linux when using ALSA
    Save skin settings immediatly after they have changed instead of only on shutdown

What else is new?

In the bugfix releases we never include any new features. They are as feature complete as the initial version with the difference is they contain stability and usability fixes. If you are curious you can read up on all the v17 changes here: Kodi v17.0 “Krypton”

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Quelle & weitere Infos :  https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v174-final-just-bunch-fixes

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Titel: Kodi v17.5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 24 Oktober, 2017, 05:00
Zitat
It has been a while since we released 17.4 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.5 where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix issues for the current release when we can. We recommend every one to upgrade to this version once it's available for their platform to have the best experience possible. If you want to know what has changed you can browse the list below.

Changelog

Joysticks: Fix accelerometers preventing screensaver
More robust way of handling audio output on variety of Android devices
Fix playback of DVD file over network on Linux
Update to FFmpeg 3.1.11
Fix up and down buttons on ir remotes with macOS High Sierra
Added latest apple devices to allow retina support
Fix not being able to add content manually to videolibrary
Fix power message handling for CEC
Fix jumping timeline while switching channel groups in Guide window

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Quelle & weitere Infos : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v175-final-another-bunch-fixes

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Titel: Kodi v17.6
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 15 November, 2017, 13:46
Zitat
We are happy and sad at same time to announce that this will be the last v17.6 release. When we say very last this of course only means for the v17 "Krypton" series as we are steadily heading towards the new v18 series called "Leia". For about a year already our developers have been working on the upcoming v18 release and have been backporting all fixes we deemed safe enough to v17 series. However with all good things there has to come a time to say enough is enough and that moment has come. From our point of view "Krypton" has been a great release and our group has spend a lot of time improving it since it's initial release on 5 February 2017. It has also been one of the series where we did things a bit different with continues nightly versions for testing and quite a lot point releases with only minor fixes just because we could.

Whats new:>>

    Fix possible crash in crontroller dialog
    Update standard scrapers to lastest version available on release
    Fix possible connection issues with internal webserver
    Fix crash when peripheral joystick add-on is disabled

Quelle & weitere Inos und DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v176-final-very-last

Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 März, 2018, 13:20
Changelog

Gaming (Games interface and Game Clients):

Added a RetroPlayer player core supporting game clients as well as emulator cores via libretro API[1][2]
Added extentions to Kodi's Addons AP to support Game Client Addons, supporting Kodi's VFS (Virtual File System), etc.[1]
Added support for Game Client Addons as new type of addons with just-in-time emulator installation[1]
Added a Games window and Game OSD (On-Screen-Display) entries to the GUI[1][3]
Added a gaming and game configuration interface for Game settings to the GUI[1]
Added support for Game Info Tags (game info tag) and exposed properties to Python list items[1]
Added a savestate (savestate) manager to Kodi for games[4]
Added initial support for basic gameplay persistence (auto-save & auto-load)[5]
Added support for in-game (save RAM) saves[6]
Added support for Keyboard players via Joystick Emulation[1]
Added support for libretro API and game cores (emulators and games) that support it
Added game clients addons for many popular third-party game console emulators and native open source games *
Game clients addons for Kodi is changing quickly so checkout the game clients addons article for a current list

Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder):

Major GUI actions refactoring to eliminate duplicate and dead code. Add context menu support for Estuary PVR home screen widgets [7]
Guide window: Get rid of obsolete views "channel", "now" and "next" [8]
Core: Refactor and fix "play minimized" settings handling [9]
Guide, channel, video fullscreen, music visualisation window: Direct channel number input. [10]
Settings: Remove setting 'hide connection lost warning' [11]
Search dialog: Refactor and complete implementation of EPG search filter [12]
Timer settings dialog: Prefill recordings folder with timer title [13]
Recordings window: Content view filter [14]
Settings: Remove non-working recording settings defaults [15]
Guide window: 'Smart selection' of epg events. [16]
Channelgroup manager: Add support for radio channel groups [17]
Guide window: Add possibility to switch between horizontal and vertical epg grid view [18]
Search window: improvements and fixes [19]
Estuary home screen: Add Info support to recently played channel widget [20]
Estuary: Add episodename to live tv and recordings osd sub label, cleanup seek bar for live tv [21]
Estuary: PVR info dialog, recordings window: cleanup and extend [22]
Drop 'channel guide' button from epg event info dialog, add 'channel guide' to context menu [23]
Settings: Introduce new setting 'Startup action' and add 'Play TV/Radio [24]
Settings: Make 'epg.lingertime' an official setting, remove the respective advanced setting [25]
Setting: Remove obsolete and unused setting 'pvrplayback.scantime' [26]
Core: Fixes/Improvements for multiple enable PVR client addons [27]
Core: Fixes/Improvements for subchannel numbers support (ATSC) [28]
Core: Global direct channel number input & global unique channel numbers [29]
Database: Fix error "Abort due to constraint violation. Query: INSERT INTO channels..." [30]
Estuary: Rework PVR seekbar + Fix PVR info dialog [31]
Core: Make next/previous chapter work for PVR recordings [32]
Direct channel number input: No delay on switch to previous channel with key 0 [33]
Settings: Make shared channel selection optional [34]
Estuary: PVR info panel cleanup [35]
Guide window: 'Go to date' context menu item [36]
Estuary: Season/Episode info in Guide window and dialog [37]
Estuary: Add percent played progress bar to PVR info panel (for recordings) [38]
Guide window: Channel groups selector [39]
Guide window: Tweaks for more consistency and readability [40]
PVR-Addon API changes [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for all popular third-party external PVR backend platforms:
New: Zattoo PVR Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
New: Teleboy PVR Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from Kodi's community
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
Digital Devices Octopus NET Client PVR Addon backend client maintained and made available by Digital Devices
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

Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager:

For full changelogs of all Addons APIs, see Leia API changes, JSON-RPC, and Add-ons Development Forums
Major refactoring of Kodi's core handling and GUI management of binary addons[49]
Added framework to support VFS (Virtual File System) as binary addons[50]
Added framework support for binary addons for video decoder codecs[51]
Added framework support for binary addons for image (picture) decoder codecs
Added extentions to Kodi's Addons API to support binary addons for video decoder codecs[51]
Added extentions to Kodi's Addons API to support binary addons for image decoder codecs
Added support for Python addons to use PyCryptoDome crypto module for decryption[52]
Added option to pass HTTP cookies with AVOption to Kodi's Video Player[53]
Added support to allow addons to edit all used controls on their processed window[54]
Added support to allow Python addons to set the videoinfotag path[55]
Added support to allow Python addons to get/set the dbid of a (music) listitem[56]
Added support for mediatype to musicinfotag tag retrieving via Python API[57]
Added support "int/float slider" to Kodi's Python API[58]
Added support "setContent for mediawindows" to Kodi's Python API[59]
Added help for load of shared library and allow the use of their own addon temp folder[60]
Added support to inspect add-on dependencies prior to installation[61]
Added ability to remove add-on settings upon uninstall[62]
Changed to new addon gui interface for list items to use on addon window[63]
Changed service addons to use event handlers instead of synchronous addon hooks[64]

Updated "Peripheral Addons" for game controllers, gamepads, joysticks, and input peripherals profiles (in Kodi-game repo[65]):

Joystick Controller Addon
X-Arcade (XGaming Tankstick) support for Kodi Addon
Steam Controller (gamepad) Addon
Default Game Controller Addon (reference game controller addon based on Xbox 360 gamepad)
PlayStation Game Controller Addon
Nintendo NES Game Controller Addon
Nintendo SNES Game Controller Addon
Nintendo N64 Game Controller Addon
Nintendo GBA Game Controller Addon
Sega Genesis Game Controller Addon
Sega Dreamcast Game Controller Addon

GUI Engine (Skinning Engine):

For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Leia API changes and the Skin Development Forum
Added windows to support Games and Game OSD in the new default skins (Estuary and Estouchy)
Added player process info dialog to Kodi's default skin (Estuary)[66]
Added support for addons to use banner and ClearLogo[67]
Added support for skins/gui to allow implicit container referencing for non-media windows[68]
Added support for addons to add "Enable/Disable" to context menu[69]
Added support for remember last used keyboard layout in GUI[70]
Added support for ISO 639-2/T language code retrieval (required by libbluray)[71]
Added window that display Kodi privacy policy in GUI settings under system info[72]
Added support to map a key to browse for subtitle in video fullscreen window[73]
Improved Kodi's GUI engine with optimizations for message handling and SmartRedraw[74]
Improved Kodi's GUI engine support for scaling container layouts[75]
Improved Kodi's GUI engine by allowing %-values for origin, camera and animation attribs[76]
Changed so that context menu reloading loads async to aviod GUI lockup on wait[77]
Updated guilib ABI (for libgui) to version 5.13.0[78]
Updated keyboard layout for some languages and added support Croatian, Slovenian, and Thai (Kedmanee)
Updated image resource addons (as example weather icons, weather fanart, studio logos, and genre icons)

Platform Independent Playback:

Added support for "InputStream" (input stream) addons to pass CryptoSession flags field[79]
Added support for BD-J / Blu-ray Disc Java menu support (requires system Java runtime enviroment)[80][81]
Added support for Blu-ray Disc detection and use provided meta data for Blu-ray Disc names[82]
Added support for video buffers to be used by decoders and renderers[83]
Added support for platforms to register custom buffers, like example dma[83]
Added a VC1-Packet bitstream parser implementation for improved VC-1 playback[84]
Added and updated many (binary) audio decoder and encoder addons for Kodi
Added a few (binary) video decoder addons for Kodi[51]
Added a "RAW" (libraw based) image decoder addon to Kodi[85]
Improved MMAL playback of H.264 MVC (Blu-ray 3D) stereoscopic video with framepacking decoding on Raspberry Pi
Improved Stereoscopic 3D playback of 3D videos (as well as better 2D playback of 3D videos)
Improved and enhanced Blu-ray support (including updated libbluray dependecies from the VideoLAN project[86][87]
Improved support for "InputStream" (input stream) addons as system addons
Updated "InputStream" (input stream) client addons for common network streaming protocols and popular services:
InputStream Addon (default reference InputStream Addon by Team Kodi
Test InputStream Addon (Test InputStream Addon for Kodi's new inputstream interface
Adaptive InputStream Addon (InputStream Client addon for several manifest types)
RTMP InputStream Addon (InputStream Client for RTMP streams using librtmp)
MPD (MPEG-DASH) InputStream Addon
SmoothStream InputStream Addon for MS-SSTR (SmoothStreamingMedia) Smooth Streaming Protocol
NXMSL InputStream Addon for Netflix style manifests over MSL
Updated FFmpeg multimedia codec and demux libraries to stable branch release version FFmpeg 3.3 (3.3.2)[88][89]
Removed certain audio codecs from core and made them into audio decoder and audio encoder add-ons
Removed certain video codecs from core and made them into video decoder add-ons[51]
Removed certain image codecs from core and made them into image decoder add-ons

Library:

Addded support to use the Favourites function in context menus[90]
Added support for context menus to favourites home screen widget[91]
Added support for processing of WRITER tag for ID3 v2, Vorbis and APE formats[92]
Added support for sorting using artist sort name tags in music[93]
Added support to "Sort By Date Added" in Music Video title node[94]
Changed to never cache listing of PVR directories on library scans[95]

Web Scrapers:

Added support for Python (script) based web scrapers for Kodi[96]
Refactored and updated many XML based scrapers in Kodi for music, movies, tv shows, and music videos
Updated music, movies, tv shows, and music video scrapers for Kodi

AudioEngine:

Added a new Sndio sink for ActiveAE for BSD, other BSD Unix based systems, and Linux[97]
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

Other:

Added a new unified setting for "Startup action" and added "Play TV/Radio"[98]
Added support to build Kodi with support for Bluetooth[99]
Added possibility for CMake build system to add additional libraries on install[100]
Updated and improved mappings for new and existing remote controls
Improved Kodi's JSON-RPC API
Improved compiling/building and code documentation (following doxygen coding guidelines)
Changed to use spdlog for Kodi logging as well as improved and further optimized logging (including debug logs)[101]
Changed XML format of setting values for Kodi's settings configuration[102]
Updated default web interface (webinterface is called "Chorus2" and is currently at version 2.4.4)[103]
Updated critical dependency libraries such as openssl, gnutls, and CMake (used to compile Kodi and its binary addons)
Removed last dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) which was hardware abstraction for input devices[104][105]
Removed all glew (libglew library) dependencies in Kodi's code[106]

Windows Specific:

Added support to build Kodi for Windows 64 / Windows for Intel 64-bit (x86-64)[126]
Added support for 3D LUT (3D Lookup Table) and dithering to Windows video renderer[127]
Improved support to compiling Kodi for Microsoft's UWP (Universal Windows Platform) APIs
Changed the inner working of render buffers and rendering methods[127]
Changed to using unicode win32 api methods[128]
Changed windowing systems for screen saver handling on Windows OS platforms
Changed to make Kodi for Windows platform independent of posix/main.cpp[129]
Removed support for Windows Vista as the operating-system is no longer supported by Microsoft[130]

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 Juni, 2018, 19:30
Infos zu dieser Version: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-alpha-2

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 August, 2018, 13:40
Infos zu dieser Version: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-alpha-3

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 27 August, 2018, 21:00
Infos zu dieser Version: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-beta-1

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 September, 2018, 21:30
Zitat
We hereby present you the second Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out. Of course you should still keep in mind it's not a final release yet and that on any upgrade a small glitch could happen as we are still doing rework. Once you decide to give it a try it is highly recommended that you create a backup first.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-beta-2

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 Oktober, 2018, 13:50
Zitat
We hereby present you the third Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out. Of course you should still keep in mind it's not a final release yet and that on any upgrade a small glitch could happen as we are still doing rework. Once you decide to give it a try it is highly recommended that you create a backup first.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-beta-3

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 23 Oktober, 2018, 21:40
Zitat
We hereby present you the forth Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out. Of course you should still keep in mind it's not a final release yet and that on any upgrade a small glitch could happen as we are still doing rework. Once you decide to give it a try it is highly recommended that you create a backup first.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-beta-4

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 November, 2018, 12:00
Zitat
We hereby present you the fifth and last Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Next step will be Release candidates where our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out. Of course you should still keep in mind it's not a final release yet and that on any upgrade a small glitch could happen as we are still doing rework. Once you decide to give it a try it is highly recommended that you create a backup first.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-beta-5

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 November, 2018, 21:30
Zitat
After two years of hard work by all volunteers, either part of the team or of our great community we can finally say the last steps towards Kodi v18 are being being made. In past years many things have changed, either visually or code wise and to be honest i can't even recall most. We as team would certainly like to thank every developer and user who spend time helping us get this far.

To this point the current v18 version has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out. Of course you should still keep in mind it's not a final release yet and that on any upgrade a small glitch could happen as we are still doing rework. Once you decide to give it a try it is highly recommended that you create a backup first.

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-rc1-new-hope

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia RC2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 04 Dezember, 2018, 12:22
Changelog

Most notable changes to mention in this Release Candidate:

    Update documentation regarding Python and Skin develoment: Kodi Doxygen
    Linux powermanagement: change logind detection to also use Dbus
    Android: Fix playback for some PVR add-ons
    Fix performance issue in PVR recording sub menu by reducing number of resume point update requests
    Android: Assign joysticks in order of MRU (last activation)
    Fix crash when an add-on did not define a version number
    VideoPlayer: fix state of a/v players after switching refresh rate
    Add new setting that allows to hide "spoiler" text for TV shows or movies

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia RC4
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Dezember, 2018, 18:00
Changelog

Most notable changes to mention in this Release Candidate:

    Update documentation regarding Python and Skin develoment: Kodi Doxygen
    Fix crash on certain music files that contain ID3v2 UFID frame
    Do not list non-repo add-ons as "unavailable" in info dialog (the by default included ones)
    Fix some interface info labels regarding music
    Fix none responsive when minimising on Mac OSX
    Fix path for looking up external subtitles
    Replace vc140 redis with vc141 which fixes crashes on Windows (user should at least install this once)
    Windows DXVA - fixed color values
    Fix GUI Notifications rendering
    Fix watched items in plugins (contains database upgrade)

Of course there are several more changes which are listed on our github repository found here: RC4 changes (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/milestone/119).

    Fix crashes by pressing 'x' to stop DVD .iso image when "Player Process Info" is displayed
    Screenshot: simplify logic and bail out if no folder is set
    Android: remove mpeg4 HD restriction / use dts for unknown pts for mpeg4 (there might be some playback regressions that will be fixed along the way)
    Change resolution (if required) on application starts (fixes XBXO resolution issues)
    Android: Reset calibrations if GUI limit changes
    Android: fix subtitle position problems
    Fix resolution whitelist issues on Windows
    Extend option to hide spoilers like text or images from the library view
    Add support for new iOS devices

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Titel: Kodi v18 Leia RC5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 13 Januar, 2019, 12:00
Changelog

Most notable changes to mention in this Release Candidate:

    Correctly redact user/password in certain cases
    Fix window transparency on Android that might cause grey bars on HDR playback
    Prevent crash when resuming audiobook when there's no chapter present
    Fix crash&burn by ensuring that Abort of ScriptObserver waits for thread exit
    Fix regression from RC4 regarding "don't disable gui rendering when losing focus" on OSX
    Workaround double switching of refreshrate because we currently cannot reliably distinguish between 25p and 50i or 29.97p and 60i on playback start
    Fix missing All Albums item from music library
    Revert change that cause sorting of ANSII characters in library (proper fix will have to be done in v19)
    Fix crash on certain language characters when using PVR add-ons
    Fix crash on Windows with DVD playback after change in ffmpeg
    Fix compatibility with older MySQL databases

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Titel: Kodi 18.0 Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Januar, 2019, 17:30
Zitat
<drum roll> ... after another long gestation... the Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms (UWP for Windows Store and Xbox is working its way through the system as I type, so will be available shortly...). While we were planning to move more to a "release early, release often" model, this has some significant changes that really needed to be tested and bedded in before we launched it, so it did take a little longer than we'd hoped. It was, though, a worthwhile wait :)

To put it in some kind of context, this version includes:

    Approaching 10,000 commits (code chunks changed)
    More than 3000 pull-requests (collection of commits that were included in one go)
    Nearly 9,000 changed files
    Nearly half a million line of code added, and much the same number removed
    Over 36 open source developers
    A lot of dedicated free time conceiving, designing, developing and testing these changes (and all the infrastructure you see around them, including this web site)
    Quite literally many, many cases of beer and wine

Weitere Infos & DL : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-180

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Titel: Kodi v18.1 Leia RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 11 Februar, 2019, 21:30
Changelog

Speed up Player and Playlists operations with JSON-RPC
Define a senseful default value for advanced settings 'updateemptytagsinterval'
Revert edge case crash fix that caused DVDs to be not recognised on Mac OS
Remove "dxvaallowhqscaling" advanced setting to prepare for DXVA improvements in v18.2 for Windows
Linux X11: fix usage of required configuration values
Add date to the log records
Don't react on DPI change event on Win10 >= FCU
Fix Android MediaCodec freeze when early disposing stream
Flush streamplayers if abort is requested which solves waiting too long. Skippingskip DVD screens for example
Fix ListitemAbsolute and ListItemPosition in GUI engine
Ignore very first "server not reachable" notification for PVR servers
Use extended result codes for SQLite
Fix invalid PTS decoder value which should inprove MPEG2 playback on Android devices
update SSL CA trust store
Handle empty vertex buffers in GUIFontTTFGL which caused a hard crash
Reintroduce setting "Close channel OSD after switching channels" for PVR
Fix thread logging on Android which cause issues like gettings frozen on DVD/Bluray playback
Avoid attempt to load music info for smartplaylists
Fix Top 100 Albums regression
RenderCapture: Only query Occlusion if GL lower 1.5
Check current mode if whitelist doesn't match and take correct action
Check if app intent is valid on Android. This fixes a hard crash when trying to open Kodi again
Fix PVR input stream creation for pvr file items only containing a path and no recording/channel tag.
Fixe playing VP9 streams using inputstream addon. It failed because codec extradata is not existant for this stream codec.
Catch an exception while reading or writing a file
Fix logical "or" operation in GUI engine
Check the system capabilities to support sleep states S1/S2/S3/S4 before reporing them as available
Fix crash in PCSX ReARMed with BIOS
Several Estuary cosmetic fixes

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Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 April, 2019, 20:00
Zitat

Just when you thought we were all having a rest for Easter, here's some surprise news for you: Kodi "Leia" 18.2 is ready to roll. The sun is shining and the sky is blue here in western Europe, and we're all tied to our keyboards to bring you the latest Kodi loveliness. We're kind like that.

In keeping with the 18.x maintenance release cycle, this is a bug fix release, with no real new functionality. What's worth noting, however, is how we've identified and managed the bugs this time. We've always valued high-quality bug reports, and, for this reason, for 18.x we implemented an issue template and an automated verification system in the GitHub issue tracker. This makes the bug reports more complete, and gives the Kodi developers a better chance to pinpoint problems more accurately and fix them more quickly. The aim is to solve the problem of waiting for proper full debug logs, samples and suchlike, hopefully saving a lot of time and getting issues resolved more quickly. Hopefully, you can see the results of this new process in the 18.x bug fix releases.

Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-182-release

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Titel: Mediacenter Kodi: Britische Polizei nimmt Addon-Entwickler fest
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 20 Juni, 2019, 14:14
Ein Entwickler eines Addons für die Mediensoftware Kodi wurde in England festgenommen. Mehrere Erweiterungen wurden nach der Festnahme abgeschaltet.

Die britische Polizei ist gegen den Entwickler eines Addons für die Mediensoftware Kodi vorgegangen. Im englischen Winsford wurde ein 40-jähriger Mann von einer Organised Crime Unit festgenommen, teilten die Behörden mit. Den Hinweis habe die Polizei von der britischen Urheberrechtsorganisation Federation Against Copyright Theft bekommen. Das Haus des Verdächtigen wurde durchsucht, Beweismittel sichergestellt. Der Entwickler wurde befragt, befindet sich mittlerweile gegen Kaution aber wieder auf freiem Fuß.

Kodi ist eine Mediacenter-App, über die Nutzer Inhalte sammeln und abspielen können. Für die Software gibt es zahlreiche unabhängige Erweiterungen, die Usern teilweise auch Zugriff auf urheberrechtlich geschütztes Material geben. Dem verdächtigten Engländer wird vorgeworfen, ein solches Addon mit illegalen Online-Streams betrieben zu haben. "Das Ausmaß des Vergehens war signifikant und hat Sender und Rechteinhaber in Großbritannien und weltweit betroffen", schreiben die Behörden in einem Statement. Die Untersuchung gehe weiter.

Mehrere Addons gehen offline

Welches Addon der Verdächtige geführt hat, geht aus der Stellungnahme nicht hervor. Die Torrent-Website TorrentFreak weist aber darauf hin, dass am Tag der Festnahme ein beliebtes Kodi-Addon namens Supremacy abgeschaltet wurde. Supremacy listet Inhalte auf, die an anderer Stelle im Netz veröffentlicht wurden, darunter neben Sport auch Spielfilme und TV-Shows.

In den Tagen nach der Festnahme sollen auch weitere bekannte Kodi-Addons den Betrieb eingestellt haben. Laut TorrentFreak verabschieden sich zum Beispiel die Entwickler von Overeasy, Maverick und 13Clowns. Manche Erweiterungen wurden laut TorrentFreak per Update komplett deaktiviert, andere werden nicht mehr zur Installation angeboten.

Die Entwickler nennen keine Gründe für den Schritt, ein Zusammenhang mit der Festnahme scheint aber naheliegend. Die Rechtslage zu Kodi-Erweiterungen ist unklar: Laut Torrentfreak wurde bisher noch kein Kriminalverfahren gegen einen Addon-Entwickler geführt.

Quelle : www.heise.de
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 27 Juni, 2019, 21:30
Zitat
wo months have passed since our last bugfix release and already we have a new one ready for consumption. Fancy a few more features? There aren't any, with one teeny-tiny exception. Apparently DTS-HD audio only tracks are a thing and Kodi can now play them like any other music format. That's it. No more features. Seriously.

However, since Kodi 18.3 is a bugfix release, we have a boatload of erm... fixes. In fact, too many to mention. Below is a non-exhaustive list of (mostly) usability fixes.

Changelog

Estuary

    Fixed favourites widget not scrolling properly on 16:10 displays
    Fixed API button was not reachable with a mouse on Settings window
    Fixed Skin Settings window scrollbar focus
    Fixed order of TV Show title and Episode title in Video Info dialog
    Added Search button to the side menu in the Video and Music windows
    Fixed Wall and Infowall views scroll to bottom on certain aspect-ratios
    Fixed broken side menu navigation in the Addon Browser window

PVR

    Fixed a Group Manager crash when adding a new group
    Fixed EPG UI corruption and/or EPG data not showing with newly added channels
    Fixed PVR guide window channel data being overwritten

Music

    Added support for DTS-HD audio tracks
    Fixed wrong album or artist thumb art being picked from scraper results

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-183-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.4 Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 31 August, 2019, 18:00
Infos hierzu -> https://kodi.wiki/view/Releases (sobald verfügbar)

DL ->

http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win32/kodi-18.4-Leia-x86.exe

http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win64/kodi-18.4-Leia-x64.exe

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.5 Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 November, 2019, 05:40
Release Notes

In our ongoing mission to bring you the very greatest (and most reliable) media centre software in the world, it's time to let another point release escape into the wild. Usual rules apply: this isn't about features, it's about stability and usability.

As usual, you can find a full summary of closed pull requests on GitHub, but the summary would be...

Interface/Look-and-Feel

    Estuary and GUI info fixes, including scrollbar behaviour, icon names, label changes
    Add dual support for Artist Slideshow 2.x and 3.x
    Fix to always allow 'Black' screen saver
    Fix wrong sort order list for music playlists node

Playback/Display

    Fixes to external subtitle playback
    Fixes to support for archives over UPnP
    Fixes to "queue item" and "play next" for STRM files with Plugin URL
    Fixes to "hide watched" status for videos
    Fixes to resume handling when marking a file as unwatched

PVR

    Fixes to EPG database storage, start/stop of PVR service
    Fix handling of open modal dialogs
    Fixes to commercial skip (EDL) processing

Other/General Fixes

    Multiple Android changes around windowing, secure decoder and SDK versions
    Multiple iOS changes, including support for iPhone 11 and 7th generation iPad, plus fixes for touch input, overlapping drawing surfaces, sandbox checks, notch support.
    MacOS fixes around windowing, where only a portion of the screen was correctly rendered
    Log files improvements around verbosity and security
    Shoutcast improvements
    Various fixes and improvements to add-on settings, package build documentation, build system, advancedsettings.xml, skin/profile changes and many other subsystems

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-185-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.6 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 März, 2020, 20:00
Release Notes

And.... here we are again. The latest Kodi release in the 18.x "Leia" cycle, with more (count them!) and better (measure them!) bug fixes for your various delight, delectation, and delirious... discussion?

18.6 is here. More nasty (and not-so-nasty) problems fixed, more bugs squashed, more happiness and love for all. This release is all about backports: where practical, we've brought bug fixes forwards from the forthcoming 19.x release, so you get the benefit sooner rather than later.

As usual, you can find full details of closed pull requests on GitHub, so explore that if you want the details, but the summary would be...

 

Audio

    Fixes around visualisations
    Fixes around pause/resume
    Fixes around TrueHD crashes
    Workaround firmware bug (AMLogic v23) (sidenote: there are many more Android audio fixes that can't be merged into 18.x "Leia" because of old AMLogic workarounds)
    Fix to correctly resume audio-only MPEG-TS streams
    Correct headphone enumeration (Android)

Build System

    Updates for missing includes
    Updates for Cmake (Windows)
    Updates for device handling and packaging (macOS)

Games

    Fixes for launching disc images and .zip files
    Fixes for black screen for RGB emulators (Rpi)

Interface/Look-and-feel

    Fixes around TextureCache
    Fixes for windowing, refresh rate, mode change and others (Android)
    Fixes for floating/split keyboard (iOS)
    Fix for artist slideshow (Estuary)
    Fix media view from addon given content

Playback/Display

    Fixed race condition for OnPlaybackStarted
    Fixes for MIME type (Android)
    Support for DolbyVision streams via addons
    Fixes for maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
    Fix for scanning in sub-directories   
    Fix size of EAGL layer on external screen (iOS)
    Fix for glTexImage3D (Linux)
    Fix for seeking issues
    Reset playlist on new file playback

PVR

    Fix for multiline episode names

Other/General

    Fixed incorrectly formatted region time
    Pass JSON serialised path settings to python scrapers
    Fix file access on auto-mounted sources     
    Fix seeking with FileCache lockup
    Fix passthrough on USB devices (Android)
    Fix crash if profile.xml gets broken   
    Fix cache forward size on EOF

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-186-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.7 erschienen
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 Mai, 2020, 09:06
Release Notes

You may have noticed that we've adopted a RERO approach to Kodi - release early, release often. Our aim is to fix problems more quickly, and then get those fixes out into the wild equally as quickly. This might mean some issues escape alongside the bug fixes, but, overall, it should mean better software, sooner, and without the disruption of a major version bump.

So, with no further fanfare: another release in the Kodi 18.x "Leia" cycle. The usual rules apply: bug fixes, not new features or functionality; most will be invisible, but will be much-appreciated if you're been suffering from a problem we've managed to address.

You can find full details of closed pull requests on GitHub, so explore that if you want the details, but TL;DR...

 

Audio

    Fix to not reset user-set volume (Android)
    Fixes around multi-channel audio track support

Playback/Display

    Fixes to Bluray subtitle language recognition
    Fix playback of bus-encrypted bluray discs
    Improved library handing for plugins if media source is removed
    Use JNI instead of NDK for MediaCodec (Android)
    Further work on maximum width and height/vertical-shift (Android)
    Fixes around realtime handling of TS streams

Interface/Look-and-feel

    Fix for watch icons not showing when content type is not set (Estouchy)
    Fix navigation in skinsettings (Estuary)
    Fix crash in favourites dialog
    Apply safe area insets to Kodi GUI (iOS)
    Fixes around focus after touch action
    Improvements around dialog/toast handling
    Fixed behaviour when accessing locked media sources

Music

    Fixes around library handling of "isalbumartist" field
    Fixes around expansion of .ISO images to avoid GUI freezes
    Ensure album artist isn't blanked out when scraping

Build System

    Fix downloading dependencies from mirrors (Windows)
    Library updates - bump gnutls (3.6.11.1) and nettle(3.5.1)

PVR

    Fix EPG corruption when new channels are added during startup

Network

    Improvements around handling of proxy credentials
    Fix for proxy empty fields (proxy, username, password)

Addons-

    Fix crash if an incompatible VFS addon is present
    Fix display of title for compressed package directories
    Fixes around addon settings folder naming

Subtitles

    Fixes around decoding of HTML escape characters
    Fix around SMI (SAMI) subtitles and quoted start tags

Profiles

    Fixes for issues related to switching profile
    Fixes to saving of lock preferences (master lock, lock video windows, etc.)

Other/General

    Add "Swiss German" and "Portuguese (Brazil)" to language codes
    Fix to guard against assert in tinyxml
    Fix stack overflow when trying to find NFO files in a RAR file
    Implement range checking in URIUtils::resolvePath
    Implement support for extended local headers in ZIP files used by some scrapers

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-187-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Leia" 18.8 Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Juli, 2020, 18:00
Release Notes

So, here we are again. Those of you with eagle eyes may already have seen this rolling out, but just to make everyone else aware - 18.8 is here. In our ongoing quest to make your lives as simple and fulfilling as possible, we're proud to present what is likely to be the final release in the 18.x "Leia" series, before all effort now shifts to 19.x "Matrix".

As usual, this is a bug fix release, so don't go looking for new features. Full details are on GitHub, but here's the short form... as you'd expect this late in the 18.x development cycle, this isn't a huge release, but it does include some things we thought were necessary to keep us going until the next major release emerges. In summary, this version:

    Fixes a severe security issue in gnutls (Linux)
    Other significant library/compatibility updates
    Gets client/server on MariaDB 10.5.4 working for Android
    Fixes video database access for Ubuntu 20.4 (search and other filtering failed)
    Fixes subtitle handling from archives
    Fixes CDDB access
    Makes minor improvements to logging and memory reporting/display
    Fixes EDLs where skip points are at the very start of a file
    Contains code improvements to fix specific events, e.g. race conditions in the EPG or "pause" on end of streams on Android
    Enables alpha blending for the video player (Windows)
    Better handles specific exceptions (Android, mostly)

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-leia-188-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 08 August, 2020, 21:30
Release Notes

So, here we go. Hot on the heels of what is intended to be the final release in the 18.x "Leia" series, it's time to give you good people a taste of things to come. So, with no further ado, we'd like to present the first Alpha releases of Kodi 19.x "Matrix".

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, it will inevitably cause problems for some people, which is why we'll go through a more traditional Alpha/Beta/Release Candidate model. As such, then, please be aware that installing this will inevitably break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed.

So, all that aside... what's actually changed?

Audio/Music

    Improved handling of multi-disc CD sets and box sets
    Additional metadata tags
    Improved handling of album release dates
    New setting to open music fullscreen/visualisation window automatically when playback is started
    A new, Matrix-inspired music visualisation is now available to install - great care has been put into making this perform well on lower-end systems

Video

    Software decoding of the AV1 CODEC

Subtitles

    Subtitle opacity can now be changed
    New dark grey colour for subtitles

Estuary Skin

    Redesign of the music fullscreen/visualisation window to match other fullscreen windows - allows fanart and visualisations to be shown without coloured overlays
    Additional media info flags added to music fullscreen/visualisation window info display
    The default Playlist view now uses the Widelist view format with options on the sideblade menu as in other areas of the skin
    A new "Now Playing" view added for music playback, showing media details for both any selected song in the playlist and those for any currently playing song

Games

    iOS now supports game controllers (Xbox/PlayStation/other supported Bluetooth controllers)

Platform Specifics

    Darwin (Apple) platforms:
        Objective-C code migrated from manual memory management to ARC

    iOS:
        Added showing total/free space
        Kodi log can now be shared using native sharing sheet
        Kodi GUI is no longer obscured on devices with notch

    macOS:
        Blank Other Displays setting no longer requires app restart
        "Toggle fullscreen" now uses default macOS shortcut

    Android:
        Static HDR10 support for all source types (if supported by the device)
        Dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support for streaming services (if supported by the device)

    Windows:
        Static HDR10 support for all source types (if supported by the GPU)

Information Providers (scrapers)

    New python scrapers for music - available in repo as Generic Album Scraper and Generic Artist Scraper
    New python scrapers for TV & movies - available in repo as The Movie Database Python and The TVDB (new)

PVR

    PVR reminders
    TV and radio channel groups and Estuary home screen widgets
    Group manager usability enhancements
    Channel manager usability enhancements
    Guide window navigation controls
    Estuary PVR information dialog enhancements
    Setting 'Switch to full screen' now supports channel types
    Playlist context menu items for recordings
    Dynamic PVR categories for Estuary home screen
    Ability to sort channels and EPG by the backend order of channels
    Support group specific channel numbering and option to start group number locally from 1
    Support for starting EPG entries as live
    Support displaying recording sizes and being able to sort by them
    New, Live, Finale and Premiere for EPG, recordings and timers
    Guide window performance improvements
    Search window performance improvements
    EPG performance and memory usage optimisations
    C++ API for PVR Addon development

Network

    Improved information around the security implications of enabling external interfaces
    Added default-on switch to require a password for the web interface
    Kodi will now enforce the origin of installed add-ons and their dependencies. This has been implemented to prevent third party repositories from overwriting code of unrelated add-ons, which was the cause of numerous error reports in the past.
    Improved support around official repos, allowing users some safeguards when installing private repositories

Addons

    Probably the biggest change: with this release, we move to Python 3 for addons (see note below).
    Kodi will now enforce the origin of installed addons and their dependencies. This has been implemented to prevent third party repositories from overwriting code of unrelated add-ons, which was the cause of numerous error reports in the past.

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Weitere Infos: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19x-matrix-alpha-1

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 06 Oktober, 2020, 19:10
Release Notes

It's been more than a month since our last "preview" release, so it's time we boxed up something new for everyone.

The usual drill applies: this is an alpha, some things will be broken, your home is at risk if something goes wrong, it might run off with your partner, don't blame us if it eats your kittens. Otherwise, though, all should be fine.

Latest changes:

Playback

    Music: Display album duration in info dialog. Album duration can be used in smart playlists in the same way as for songs
    Music: Read tags and and album art from music files served from an http(s) server
    Music: Fix list view of files containing multiple streams
    Feature: Audio decoder addons can now pass more information on Kodi (album, year, notes ...)
    Audio decoder addons can now pass more information to Kodi (album, year, notes ...)

Subtitles

    ASS: Fixed timestamp overlapping overlays

Skin/Look-and-Feel

    Improvements to both music and video library artwork
        Better "out the box" behaviour, optionally use all image files found in media folders
        Artwork levels - max, basic, custom, none
        GUI settings for custom configuration of whitelists (replacing awkward editing of advancedsettings.xml)
    Redesigned SeekBar that will auto-hide when video playback is paused

Platform Specifics

    Apple TV
        Fix Kodi crash on start after a manual install with dpkg -i command (jailbroken devices only)
        Fix TopShelf feature after a manual install with dpkg -i command (jailbroken devices only except Unc0verTV devices, needs investigation)
        Fix missing thumbs on TopShelf items

Python/Addons

    Fix scripts/plugins not being notified of abortRequest intents on app close
    Deprecate xbmc.translatepath in favour of xbmcvfs.translatepath towards convergence with the binary addon API
    Broken/deprecated add-ons are now highlighted in the add-on list, and you're now prompted when you try to activate one
    Fix: Prevent VFS addon changes (update, disable and uninstall) if in use
    Fix: VFS addon problem, where Kodi needed a restart before showing a newly-installed version
    Binary addon system revised to ensure higher security in data exchange between addon and Kodi (only inputstream missing)
    Revised binary add-on system documentation for outside developers (only inputstream missing)
    Internal binary add-on settings dialogs cleaned up, plus updated help text (audioencoder.kodi.builtin.aac, audioencoder.kodi.builtin.wma, screensaver.xbmc.builtin.dim)

If you're bold, brave (and possibly a wearing a red shirt), you can get Alpha 2 from here. Again, though, please - and adopting a more serious note - expect some breakage, and don't use this as your daily installation unless you know how to get things working again. If you do make the move and install it, however, please do share your experiences back with us so we can really get going on those bugs.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19x-matrix-alpha-2

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 22 November, 2020, 20:50
Release Notes

Lights! Camera! Action!

... nearly. It's Beta time for Kodi 19.x "Matrix", so let's take another step towards the Great Unveiling.

As we now move into Beta, this release is much more about fixes than features: while there will be the odd new functionality, we're concentrating very much more on getting everything working properly from this point.

To recap, then, one of the main objectives of 19.x "Matrix" is to release a production version of Kodi with Python 3 addons as early in 2021 as we can. That can only happen with enthusiastic community support, lots of good humour and willingness to see the best in others - well, that and coffee/beer (delete as applicable), of course!

Why Python 3? Simply, because Python 2 went end-of-life in January 2020, so the whole IT industry is lurching over to the new platform. It's generally taking a long time, but it's necessary if you want active support, bugfixes, the latest third-party libraries, security patches, and the like. You can see some of Kodi's announcements about this change in previous blog posts.

Beyond that, though, here's a quick recap of the major new features in 19.x "Matrix" - as well, of course, as many fixes and code changes that won't be as obvious:

Audio/Music

    Improvements covering multi-disc CD sets and box sets; metadata improvements such as better handling of album release dates, album durations, etc.; new fullscreen/visualisation settings; new Matrix-inspired visualisation; support for file tags over http(s).

Music Videos

    Improved links with the music library to e.g. fetch related album/artist information, display both videos and albums when searching, display more linked information in info dialogs, etc.; improvements around grouping of all music videos by artist (vs album only); enhanced .nfo handling for multiple performers.

Skin/Look-and-Feel

    Multiple improvements to Estuary, particularly around music and music videos, including: a redesign of the fullscreen/visualisation music window; additional metadata display; new “Now Playing” view; chapter information for music videos; enhanced “now playing” and “next item” views; a generally improved “out of the box” behaviour with regard to music and video library artwork.

Games

    Improved game controller support on iOS; improvements to image quality in Pixel Art games.

Playback

    Software decoding of AV1;subtitle improvements with new dark grey colour and selectable opacity; ability to provide a subtitle URI (URL, local file, etc.); static HDR10 and dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support (platform- and client-dependent).       

PVR

    A host of improvements, including PVR reminders; TV/Radio channel groups, home screen widgets and dynamic PVR categories for Estuary; enhancements to the Group and Channel manager; navigation/usability improvements such as context menus, selection persistence, and EPG controls; info dialog enhancements; improvements to PVR handling via the API.

Security

    Various improvements to user information, e.g. the security implications of enabling external interfaces or a prompt when enabling a broken/deprecated addon; a requirement for a web interface password by default; new origin enforcement for addons and dependencies, so third-party addons can’t overwrite code of other, unrelated addons.

Information Providers/Scrapers

    New Python scrapers for music, TV and movies (linked to the Python 3 move).

... plus many code and platform-specific fixes and improvements that might be less visible to most users, but are still significant, such as the move to a single Linux binary for multiple windowing systems (X11, Wayland, and GBM).

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19x-matrix-beta-1

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 19.x "Matrix" RC
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 16 Januar, 2021, 18:30
Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19x-matrix-release-candidate

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" Final
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Februar, 2021, 20:00
Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-190-matrix-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Matrix" 19.1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 Mai, 2021, 19:30
Zitat
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, no matter how much testing you do before a major release, you'll never find and squash anything like all the bugs until you get a proper, large-scale, mass test of the code. In other words, it's time for a bugfix release on the Kodi 19 "Matrix" series, as - thanks to your feedback - we've managed to fix a whole batch of issues over the past few weeks.

In no particular order, this version includes fixes for the following:

As a bug fix release, don't bother going to look for new features; while there are some, that's not the main purpose of this version. Full details are on GitHub, but here's the short form...

Changelog

Video

    Fixed: HDR metadata is now detected in VP9 profile 2 streams and can be used on platforms that support HDR passthrough or tone mapped when playing this kind of videos.

Discs

    Fixed: playback of optical DVDs in Linux
    Fixed: BD-J Blu-ray chapter skipping via remotes/keyboard

PVR

    Fixed: context menu not accessible in PVR Guide window when using very basic remote to control Kodi
    Fixed: client channel name and number not persisted when changed
    Fixed: play count and resume position of recordings lost after Kodi restart
    Fixed: crash while browsing the EPG when MySQL is used as EPG database
    Fixed: next recording on ... label time is not localized in Estuary Timer/Timer rules window
    Fixed: channel manager does not rename backend channel
    Fixed: playing archived programme not selected when opening the Guide window
    Fixed: GUI not updated on removal/insert/hide/unhide of channel groups
    Updated: improved look of PVR windows in Estuary

Music Library

    Fixed: issue with music from cuesheets where only the first track was being added to the library on rescanning, with the rest being deleted

JSON-RPC

    Fixed: PVR - Reintroduced broadcast properties 'hastimer', 'hastimerrule', 'hasrecording', 'recording'
    Fixed: PVR - Reintroduced channel property 'isrecording'

Subtitles

    Fixed: detection of system fonts (directwrite) on windows for ASS subtitles
    Fixed: detection of user fonts (in userdata/fonts) for ASS subtitles
    Fixed: rendering of semi-transparent ASS subtitles on Wayland

GUI/Interface

    Fixed: media flagging for DVD/BluRay

Web Interface

    Updated: Chorus2 based on community contributions

Filesystem

    Updated: enable filecaching by default for network filesystems
    Updated: improve filecache error handling

Network

    Updated: improved reliability for HTTP and NFS network filesystems

Windows specifics

    Added: support for WS-Discovery protocol that enables locating SMB servers and browsing shared folders using SMBv3.
    Added: debug Info OSD Video. Extends current Debug Info Player (Ctrl+Shift+O) with new video-only info (Alt+O)
    Fixed: with some unusual streams, incorrect HDR metadata could be passed (HDR10 passthrough).
    Fixed: green screen on systems with old HW (DX feature level 9.1) playing 10-bit videos.
    Fixed: black screen with Software render method and with DXVA2 hardware acceleration disabled.
    Fixed: green screen when playing the menu of some DVDs (MPEG2 SD only).
    Fixed: credentials being requested for anonymous SMB shares
    Updated: VC runtimes included in the installer to add compatibility with VS2019 and VS2017 at the same time.

Android specifics

    Fixed: SMB shares mounted on system level not visible in Kodi
    Fixed: SMB shares labelled with cryptic numbers (UUID) instead of actual disk name

Xbox specifics

    This version also brings 19.1 to the Xbox - while 19.0 has been in the Microsoft Store since launch, this was Windows-only while we found a way to adequately test the new release on Xbox. We've fixed that now, so Xbox users will automatically upgrade from 18.9 to 19.1 if you've got auto-update enabled. It's worth mentioning that there's a known memory limitation - present in 18.x as well - that causes Xbox application crashes with 4k content, so please be aware.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-matrix-191-release

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Matrix" 19.2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 09 Oktober, 2021, 18:00
Release Notes

It's been some time since we released 19.1, and numerous issues have revealed themselves and been resolved in the intervening months. As such, we're probably overdue a formal release of the updates, so, without further ado - here's the latest release in the "Matrix" series.

As with other point releases, don't go looking for new features, as that isn't really the purpose here. Full details are on GitHub, but here's the short form...

PVR

    Fixed: crash when accessing invalid PVR channel from favourites
    Fixed: crash on startup while searching for missing channel icons
    Fixed: crash on startup caused by missing timer type
    Fixed: "Delete permanently" of recordings from trash
    Other, more minor bug fixes

Video Library

    Fixed a bug that deleted UniqueID's when scraping the library, which caused unexpected behaviour for addons relying on those ID's

Games

    Added translations for emulators and game controller add-ons

JSON-RPC

    Expose icon path of EPG tags as 'thumbnail' property
    Expose series number of EPG tags as 'seasonnum' property.

Network

    Websocket: handles partial messages

Add-ons

    Fixed: display logic for official and third-party modules

Windows specifics

    Fixed: possible crash when switching monitors due to adding/removing hardware.
    Fixed: audio passthrough not working (randomly) on some systems when display refresh rate match is enabled.
    Improved: flip discard swap chain is used on all Windows 10 systems even if graphics driver does not support latest DirectX feature levels.
    Improved: 10-bit swap chain is used by default on Windows 10 systems when HDR display is detected (for 8-bit SDR video sources too).
    Fixed: possible crash related to WS-Discovery when non-computer devices (e.g. IP cameras) are attached to the same network.
    Fixed: possible crash when HDR is toggled on/off externally from Windows 10 display settings.
    Fixed: no picture or wrong black level with some video drivers when limited range output is enabled in conjunction with hardware acceleration DXVA2 and HDR passthrough.

Android specifics

    Fixed: external storage volumes not visible on devices running old Android versions

Xbox specifics

The big news here is that we can finally make 19.x "Matrix" available on the Xbox - thanks for putting up with the delay while we fixed the blockers!

    Fixed: crash on playback of 4K HEVC videos due to out-of-memory condition.
    Fixed: GUI rendered at 1080 and upscaled to 4K instead of native 4K.
    Fixed: 4K resolution is incorrectly reported in logs as 1920x1080.
    Fixed: crash when "Switch display refresh rate at Start/Stop" is enabled with 4K resolution.
    Fixed: tone mapping not used by default at playback HDR videos.
    Fixed: missing display refresh rate info on Video Debug Info OSD (Alt+O).
    Fixed: Internet SSL connectivity not working due not usable path to built-in CA certs bundle.
    Improved: swap chain performance using DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_FLIP_DISCARD.
    Improved: 10-bit swap chain surfaces are used if an HDR-capable TV is detected (even for 8-bit SDR videos).
    Improved: HEVC DXVA2 decoder performance using 128 byte aligned decoder surfaces.

Thanks, as always, to everyone who has helped by reporting, isolating or fixing issues.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-matrix-19-2-release/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi ´Matrix´ 19.3 Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Oktober, 2021, 11:30
Release Notes

Okay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we didn't want to ignore - so, rather than get into platform-specific point releases, we thought we'd just nudge up to 19.3 and go for it.

As with other point releases, don't go looking for new features, as that isn't really the purpose here. Full details are on GitHub, but here's the short form...

    We've had some challenges getting the Xbox version released because of some specific platform requirements needed for 4k/HEVC playback. With the help of @CelesAtXbox (thanks so much!) we think we've now genuinely got those covered to Microsoft's satisfaction, and can finally get this into the Windows Store.
    There's also an issue with an expired certificate for 18.9 on Xbox, which effectively takes that version off that platform for new installations, so timing is opportune to fix that.
    There's been a long-standing Atmos audio issue on all platforms that support TrueHD passthrough - we know that this this has been irritating people for some time, and we've now been able to fix this.
    We unintentionally introduced a bug in 19.2 that broke Airplay, so we've fixed that one.
    A couple of gaming-related fixes, notably a controller fix and some shader issues on Retroplayer.
    We've fixed a bug that affected thumbnails for watched episodes when hiding episode spoilers.
    We've much improved the metadata shown in Linux app stores.

Thanks, as always, to everyone who has helped by reporting, isolating or fixing issues.

You should be fine to install this straight over the top of your existing Kodi version - indeed, this will happen automatically on many platforms - but, if you've any doubts, back up your userdata beforehand. Similarly, this is a minor version bump, so there's no change to database versions or anything similar on the vast majority of platforms; the exception here is obviously if you're getting your first taste of a major upgrade (i.e. 18.x to 19.x).

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-matrix-19-3-release/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Matrix" 19.4 Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 05 März, 2022, 12:30
Changelog
   

Is it too late to say "Happy New Year"? Probably, but this is still the first release of 2022, so let's go with that anyway.

It's point release o'clock once more, so, without further fanfare, I give you Kodi "Matrix" 19.4: more bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 19.3 on Github, as usual.

Estuary

    Fix: Home screen context menu fix for when there are more than 10 items in menu.
    Fix: Seekbar wouldn't disappear after 5 sec when using remote app e.g. Kore or JSON to pause Kodi.

Input

    Fix: English keyboard missing semi-colon.
    Fix: Chinese keyboard character now displaying correctly.

Music

    Fix: Artist discography export to NFO.

PVR

    New: Sort method for recordings based on season and episode.
    Fix: Crash when navigating an empty guide.
    Fix: Hiding/deleting channel group now working correctly.

UI

    Fix: Any Favourites for a restricted/locked media source are now hidden.
    Fix: Blu-ray ISO title and watched status now displayed correctly.
    Fix: Wrong language identified from subtitle name corrected.

Video

    Fix: EDL mute now working.
    Fix: ASS subtitles display now working correctly.

Android specifics

    Fix: Audio buffers adjusted.
    Fix: Various TrueHD stutter/dropout issues corrected.

Linux specifics

    Fix: Automatic play of DVDs.

MacOS specifics

    Fix: Mouse cursor positioning in full-screen.

Windows specifics

    Fix: Flickering with interlaced H.264 SD on AMD GPUs.
    Fix: Crash on unexpected network configuration (e.g. no MAC address obtained).

Xbox specifics

    New: Passthrough audio via WASAPI.
    Fix: Permission error preventing installation of Python add-ons.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-matrix-19-4-release/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 17 Mai, 2022, 12:46
Changelog


Video

    AV1 hardware decoding for Android. PR
    AV1 hardware decoding for Linux via VAAPI PR
    Bump to FFMPEG 4.4 PR

Subtitles

    Add new font style settings such as border size/colour, background type/colour/opacity, shadow colour/opacity, and blur
    Add support to display subtitles with dynamic positions which make use of position tags
    Add underlined and strikethrough text style support
    Add a new wide colour palette in colour settings
    Add a new setting to change text alignment for closed caption subtitles for a better reading
    Add a new setting to override subtitles metadata like style and position
    Improved font size that now match the point/pixel proportion
    When Kodi is in windowed mode subtitles are now always displayed correctly
    Improved VPlayer for better reading of multiline text
    Improved SAMI format to better support multiple languages
    Improved TX3G format to support multiple styles, colours and alpha channel
    ASS/SSA subtitles are displayed without flickering
    Improved image-based subtitle rendering to keep a better aspect ratio
    Add support to the WebVTT subtitle format type
    Improved font list setting - the actual names of the fonts are now listed
    Add support to OpenType font type (OTF)
    Improved calibration window, so it's now possible to also reset the calibration settings
    Subtitle settings can now be changed while in playback without side effects

Discs

    Fix resume of Blu-Rays and DVD ISOs in file mode (not in library)
    Fix playback of some optical discs on Linux due the incorrect mapping of mountpoints
    On Linux optical media is now mounted by default (via udisks)
    Partial code cleanup and platform split of disc drive handling
    Skin cosmetics
    Fix duplicated context menu items

EDL

    Fix EDL mute sections and EDL cuts

GUI

    Fix wrap lists
    Fix hitrect on auto sized buttons
    Fix some context menu options not triggering the respective builtin action
    Independent volume setting for GUI sounds PR
    Password reveal button in keyboard dialog PR

Input

    Added Steam Deck built-in controller support

Skinning

    Add a new Colour Picker window dialog to allow display a colour list
    Improved image control to support read dynamic $INFO data to "colordiffuse" tag
    Improved Player Process Info window - new information has been added and grouped by context
    New media flags for HDR videos: detect, store and process the type of HDR in a video file PR
    Skinners can now define modal dialogs if its visibility depends on Boolean condition evaluation
    Deprecation of old infolabels with the introduction of new generic ones (e.g. Player.Editlist, Player.Cuts, etc)

Estuary/Estouchy

    Estuary PVR Home Screen: New widget for timers (replacing old current/next recording widget)
    Estuary PVR Home Screen: Add percentage played progress bars to Recent Channels and Recent Recordings widgets
    Estuary PVR Home Screen: Change default click action to open the Guide window
    Improve display of EDL markers on the default skin (EDL mutes are now shown, cut sections are also identified)

Games

    Savestate manager for Retroplayer with captions describing the state of the game provided by https://retroachievements.org/ PR
    In-game Port Setup dialog to change between game controllers PR

Platform Specifics

    UNIX Family Platforms:
        Implement WS-Discovery (SMB discovery) for *ix platforms (Android/Linux/Apple) PR

    iOS/TVOS:
        Improved Siri Remote handling PR
        Improved "Now Playing" info PR

    macOS:
        Initial support for M1 native including native windowing/input handling PR NOTE: We do not provide prebuilt M1 dmg's. Any devs willing to work on ironing out the many corner cases of the native windowing implementation, don't hesitate to ping @fuzzard on the forums if you have any questions.
        Extend GameController support to OSX PR
        Many code cleanups/refinements/refactors

    Android:
        Update Android build to use Gradle for signing/aligning/packing PR

    Linux:
        Add ACES/Hable Tonemapping for GLES PR
        More BiCubic Shaders for GLES PR
        Pipewire support PR

    Windows:
        New setting to use 10 bit swapchain for SDR videos. Improves video quality and more precise colour conversions: YUV to RGB, limited to full range, shaders, etc. This is true even if video output is limited to 8 bit RGB by system or graphics driver. PR
        Improved DXVA2 (HW video decoding) performance by sharing decoding and rendering surfaces. Avoids video copy operations and drastically reduces video memory usage on NVIDIA and AMD graphics using recent drivers. PR

i8n support

    Harfbuzz rendering for scripts with open type font shaping features PR

PVR

    Channels and Recordings can specify a provider PR
    Read-only recordings supported
    EPG Search: Add Saved Searches, incl. new Estuary PVR Home Screen widget
    Channel Manager: Add possibility to refresh all channel logos
    Settings: Add possibility to specify which data to delete when resetting PVR database
    Automatic cleanup of cached PVR images (texture.db and cached image files)
    Functional Improvements for multi PVR Add-on scenarios
    Performance improvements, esp. for large number of channels

Build System/Dependencies

    Most dependencies have been updated to latest, or close to, for Apple/Android platforms
    Many cmake updates to update build system

Date/Time

    Many many updates/changes to use std::chrono throughout the code base

Addons

    Colour Picker PR
    Colour button setting PR
    Add support to add video HDR type info to a video list item
    Function for removing orphaned dependencies recursively PR

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-alpha-1/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 Juli, 2022, 20:00
Changelog


Platform Specific

    Android

        Fix a stutter when the Kodi Android app was opened, closed and opened again. One of our team members (@thexai) noticed an issue with a recent PR that caused media stuttering to occur only after the app was opened and closed and reopened again without a force close. @ksooo has come up with a fix, so hopefully playback should be a better experience over Alpha 1.
        Another TrueHD fix - buffers reduced to a specific level to optimise data throughput - Android: Adjust buffer size/duration for TrueHD IEC.
        More local app icons should render fully in Kodi - Android: CFileAndroidApp::ReadIcon: Add support for icons provided a....
        Fix a packaging error for binary python modules (pycryptodome) - Android: packaging: don't delete cryptodome libraries from depends i....

    XBox
        Fixes some specific H.265 video crashes - XBox: DXVA2: Allows the use of more than 16 decoding surfaces for H265 Full HD or less.

Python

    Android and Apple systems have had their Python version bumped to 3.9.13 in accordance with the latest release of the CPython 3.9 series. Of note, there have been fixes by the CPython team specifically for issues raised by Kodi community members around some crashes. Thanks to those members raising the upstream issues, and the fantastic CPython team for fixing them.

    Please note, this does not affect any of our Windows releases, or if you are using Linux.

Filesystems

    Fix a regression that caused thumbnails to not appear when accessed from "remote" filesystems (e.g. WebDAV) - fixed: URIUtils::IsInternetStream() didn't properly handle filesystem....

Closed Captions

    Fix an instance of Closed Captions not working. A forum member was able to provide an extremely helpful sample that allowed @enen92 to track down an issue with closed captions not working correctly. Incidentally, this also fixes Closed Captions for some Inputstream.Adaptive streams as confirmed by @CastagnaIT.

Subtitles

    Multiple WebVTT fixes
        Subtitles: WebVTT: Fix X-TIMESTAMP-MAP LOCAL parsing.
        Subtitles: WebVTT: Clear all overlays just before creating a new parser.
        Subtitles: WevVTT: Sync cue timestamps with period start.

Bluray

    Fix BluRay resume issues - Discs: Fix resume of Blurays and BluRay ISOs (state serializer).

Thumbnail Images

    Reduce "quality" of thumbnail creation - FFmpegImage: Reduce quality a tiny bit

    NOTE: An advanced setting is available for those users who wish to alter the default further. More information can be found on the wiki.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-alpha-2/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 September, 2022, 19:20
Changelog


Platform Specific

Addons

    Some crashes in addon installation and repository checks have been corrected (ksooo, howie-f)

    AlwinEsch has implemented a large feature to allow multiple instances of the same binary addon.

    This allows, for example, two instances of a PVR addon (e.g. PVR.HTS) to run using different backend provider instances. The usage of this will require updates from the various binary addons that will start to happen, so if you are interested in helping your favourite PVR addon to implement this, check out the above PVR.HTS PR, as well as the following PVR.Demo PR

Database

    ksooo has been optimising various things in our db wrappers for better performance (link)

DVD

    Fix DVD Menu indicators for DRMPrime (link)

Filesystem

    Fix NFS for Windows platforms after some recent NFS updates
    Several NFS improvements/cleanups
    Initial NFS4 implementation (link)

Font/Glyh

    Several improvements around our Font/Glyph Handling code from several team members (ksooo, thexai, sarbes) - improvements that should help low power machines in particular, but all platforms generally.
    Harbuzz glyph caching improvements (link)
    Fix some inconsistencies with RTL languages and certain skinning components (link)

Games

    Improvements/cleanups regarding controllers (link)
    Fix crash if controller info files don't have correct info (link)

General

    Rechi has done a bunch of leg work implementing improvements from Static analysis tools like CPPCheck (link) and ClangTidy (link)
    Remove obsolete addons from Core Kodi install (link)
    Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files (link)
    Fixed wrong player playlist with playlist files on widgets (link)

Input

    Fix using mouse to drag/drop some controls (link)

Platform Specific

    Linux GBM
        Ability to set HDR Output (link)

    MacOS
        Allow the OSX arm64 (Apple Silicon) build to correctly find appropriate binary addons from repositories.

    Windows
        Fix incorrect window positioning when transitioning window to fullscreen and back (link)

PVR

    ksooo continues updating/refining/fixing all things PVR related

Skinning

    Estuary
        Show titles when "Flatten Hierarchy" setting enabled (link)

Subtitles

    Further improvements/refinements to subtitles from CastagnaIT

Video

    Fix for 3D MVC Playback

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-alpha-3/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Nexus" Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 November, 2022, 19:11
Changelog

Here we go folks: ramping things up, so we now have the first Beta for Kodi v20, "Nexus".

As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed, both those in Team Kodi, and all other developers that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue - thank you. Everyone appreciates you for making Kodi better.

We also want to thank all those users who provide endless support on the forums, we appreciate you, and all the support anyone provides to our users.
Release notes

Addons

    Assorted binary addon fixes/updates - imagedecoder, screensaver, vis. Thanks to @AlwinEsch as always for the huge amount of work supporting Kodi's addon interfaces.
    Fix/refactor "multi instance" GUI settings for addons. This work carries on from the PVR binary addons being able to have multiple backend instances (link).
    New id3 tag metadata stream support for PVR Radio addons (link).
    Add new SetVideoResolution with max resolution (link).

Database

    Clean DB was previously broken in earlier Nexus builds. This has now been fixed by @enen92 (link).

Disc

    Update libbluray to 1.3.2 for all platforms (link).
    Fix a "double free" issue when ejecting a disk (link) - Sidenote: thank you @prahal for your first contribution to Kodi core.
    Handle BD_EVENT_DISCONTINUITY (link).

Filesystem

    UPNP fixes for picture handling (link).
    First time contributor @ihipop improved support for subtitle formats when accessed via UPNP DLNA (link).

General

    Fix bookmark resume for .strm files (link).
    Fix jsonrpc Player.GetProperties response when playback from a widget is done (link).
    Fix race condition in CJobmanager causing crashes (link) - Sidenote: @neo1973 is our newest team member, welcome to the team!
    Application refactors. A large effort by @notspiff refactoring some very old code into more manageable chunks.
    Assorted improvements found by static analysis tools. Thanks @Rechi.
    Write correct duration to tracks in M3U playlists (link).
    Improvements to the header inclusions for a lot of areas of Kodi. This is a step to improve build times in general that mostly aims to reduce the number of components rebuilt when changes were made in a few extremely common objects. Thanks @notspiff, @ksooo.
    @rubpa has diagnosed and fixed a race condition in picture thumbnail loading (link).

Input

    Mouse cleanup (link).

network

    Another first time contributor @jjlin added support for HTTPS proxies (link).

Platform Specific

    Unix based platforms
        Android and Apple platforms now ship with Python 3.11 built in. Python 3.11 is a very notable release due to considerable improvements in CPython regarding speed. Checkout the python release notes for more info.

    Android
        Android builds will now be built as RelwithDebinfo by default for our Jenkins builds. This means nightlies and most other Android builds built by PRs will be with the more optimised RelwithDebinfo instead of Debug. This was done as some issues being investigated by devs was found to be purely cause by the slower Debug build types.
        A number of improvements by @joseluismarti.
        More class parameters have been added to allow more corner cases for starting android apps (link).

    macOS
        Prevent crash on exit (link).

    TVOS
        Sensitivity on the Remote has been reduced, and the tooltip and setting has been made more intuitive by @sy6sy2.

    Windows
        Remember window position of Kodi when run in windowed mode (link).
        First time contributor @sryze fixed a cmake warning for windows building (link).
        A new setting to allow setting the peak luminance for a display (link).
        Fixes to slow python usage on UWP platforms (eg Xbox) (link).

PVR

    Assorted EPG search fixes.
    Added possibility to browse available PVR client add-ons from PVR settings.
    Channels and Recordings now can be sorted by provider.
    Various fixes and performance improvements.
    Large refactoring improvements.

Favourites

    Replace favourites dialog with new favourites window, providing different views and other enhancements.

Skinning

    Added a new infobool System.Setting(hideunwatchedepisodethumbs) (link).

    Estuary specifics
        PVR Channel Manager redesign.
        Click on PVR Home screen section icon now opens Channels window again.
        Some smaller changes to the PVR OSD.
        Extend music context menu functionality, add ability to play albums directly from home screen.
        Extend video context menu functionality.

Subtitles

    Fix for 3D MVC subtitles not appearing correct when frame packed (link).

Video

    Inputstream support for AV1 codec (link).
    Don't attempt to use hardware AV1 decode if forcing software decoding. This fixes AV1 thumbnail generation on devices that don't support AV1 hardware decoding (link).

Thank you once again to everyone who has contributed to this release.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-beta-1/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi Nexus RC 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 15 Dezember, 2022, 17:30
Changelog


Here we go folks, ramping things up and we have the first Release Candidate (RC) for Kodi "Nexus".

As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed, both those in Team Kodi and all other devs that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue. Everyone appreciates you for making Kodi better.

We also want to thank all those users who provide endless support on the forums, we appreciate you, and all the support anyone provides to our users.
Addon Devs

We'll put this at the top of this post, as there was an API break after Beta 1 was released. The details can be seen on the forums (and of course discussed if any assistance is required).

Essentially, if you use either the Python InfoTagVideo or VideoStreamDetail APIs, some functions had their variable names changed to bring consistency to the new set of APIs introduced earlier in Nexus.

We strongly advise users to always update to the latest test releases if you are on the bleeding edge, however if you are on older releases (e.g. Alphas or Beta 1), you may want to block updates on your addons as dev's update their addons to target RC and the final V20 release.
Release notes

Addons

    A BREAKING API change was introduced for the VideoStreamDetail and InfoTagVideo Python APIs. This affects set APIs that were introduced in the v20 development cycle. We would not normally do such a change when we enter Beta phase, but we believe fixing this now would cause fewer issues for all the addon devs out there for v21 (supporting 2 different APIs for v20/v21). Details around what is affected can be seen in the PR. In addition, further details can be seen and discussed on the forums.
    A number of bundled addons have been updated. This should reduce the number of addons that immediately do updates on installation of RC1.

Scrapers

    Due to the above breaking API change, the TVDB TV Show scraper was updated to prevent breaking. The result is that the updated scraper will be broken on any Kodi v20 release prior to this RC1 release. If you are using an older v20 install, then you need to update for continued functioning of the TMDB TV Show scraper.
    In addition, we took this opportunity to fix a long outstanding issue with the Python TV Show scrapers described here. The result is that if you are adding new episodes to existing TV shows in your library, you need to refresh the show to download the new episode guide. If you are using NFO files, the episode guide in those files needs updating also.
    TMDB TV Shows and TV Maze scrapers have been updated, with TVDB v4 to be updated in the near future. More details can be found here.

Games

    @lrusak fixed a crash that was introduced into Beta1. Some Linux users were finding Kodi was crashing on startup (link).
    @lrusak again fixed a black screen issue with standalone games (link).

General

    Add support for action "play" to many more items such as widgets/favourites on the homescreen (link).
    Fix a regression with duplicate/incorrect context menu entries (link).
    @ksooo fixed another regression for addons that caused the "continue watching" context menu not to show the resume time (link).
    @repojohnray has been providing a number of fixes/cleanups lately that are targeting memory leaks. Subtitles and a number of Linux specific areas have had improvements made to them.
    A new contributer @larrignon has fixed a logging message that occurred when an empty directory was searched by scrapers (link).

Music

    Fix crash when queuing multichannel audio files. This fixes a regression introduced in Beta 1 (link).
    Fix default fallback image to be more relevant to a music item (CD Case instead of a Folder) (link).

Platform Specific

    Android
        @joseluismarti has contributed a number of cleanups/fixes for Android.
        @a1rwulf bumped our SDK target to 31. Along with a number of fixes @joseluismarti contributed over the past few months, this has allowed us to finally do a release to the Google Play Store. RC1 has been released to the Testing channel, and we'll ramp up deployment over the next week or so to more users in the Testing channel

    macOS
        @enen92 has made a number of fixes to what is know as the macOS native windowing implementation. This won't affect too many people right now, as the default release uses SDL windowing, however anyone building the native macOS ARM version (or using the test builds) should see a number of improvements around windowing.
        Add speech to text service implementation (usable from keyboard dialog)

    Windows and Xbox
        Kodi RC 1 has been submitted to the Microsoft Store as an update. Users should start receiving this shortly. Be aware that you may have to uninstall and reinstall your Xbox version, because the OS is not updating cleanly.

Skinning

    Fix a crash if an include has an empty condition. This was reported by @jurialmunkey and was an effect when a PARAM was used in the include condition that may have been empty (link).

    Fix a crash that could occur in the event of a textbox that was too small for a font used, and therefore the text would not fit (link).

    Estuary Specifics
        Music: Extend context menu functionality, add ability to play albums directly from home screen
        Video: Extend context menu functionality
        PVR: New home screen widget for saved searches
        PVR: Reworked home screen widget for timers
        PVR: Some smaller visual changes to the OSD and the home screen widgets
        Add possibility to use the play button (on remote, keyboard, ...) to start playback of many different items shown on the home screen (e.g. songs, movies, episodes, Live-TV channels, recordings, albums, TV shows, single seasons, movie sets - just try it out...)

Subtitles

    Fix a regex for Sami subtitles (link).

Teletext

    @enen92 has made a few fixes for teletext usage. A crash and a usability issue were resolved (link).
    Another crash was resolved (link).
    Flashing teletext was blinking at an extremely fast pace. This fixes an regression introduced by a large core change regarding time related functions (link).

UPNP

    Fix some crashes occurring on startup if UPnP items were on homescreen widgets. Check the PR for gritty details (link).

Video

    A new feature has been introduced to allow the possibility of 'continue watching' (aka resume) for certain video folders from the context menu of several folder locations (eg Movie Sets, TV Shows including seasons, and more). The best way to see more info about this is to see the PR.

PVR

    Multi-instance support for PVR client-addons (first implemented by pvr.hts, more to come)
    Persistent EPG searches
    Automatic cleanup of texture database and removal of related stale image files
    Add possibility to refresh channel logos in the Channel manager
    Selection of items to delete when resetting the PVR database
    Various performance optimisations, larger code refactoring

Favourites

    New favourites window, providing different views and other enhancements

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-rc-1/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi Nexus RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 20 Dezember, 2022, 11:00
Changelog


Database

    A couple of fixes have gone in to resolve database migration issues from v19.
    The first of these is the EPG database migration. This fixes the problem with the EPG loading and then disappearing. Thanks @ksooo for the prompt fix.
    A second DB migration issue that only occurred on the Microsoft UWP platform (Xbox and UWP desktop) has been fixed by @thexai . This was an odd one, as the code that dealt with the failure was old code (6+ years). It was traced to an odd race condition that only manifested on the UWP platforms, however the root cause potentially could happen on any other platform.

General

    A fix for playlist detection for both Audio and Video was made by @ksooo - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22270

Platform Specific

    Linux
        @popcornmix has fixed an issue for DRMPrime on Linux. This allows hardware formats like Broadcom 8-bit (SAND128) and 10-bit (P030) can now be correctly rendered with the latest Mesa.

    macOS
        A fix to allow Kodi to execute on macOS 10.13 has been made. We would still strongly suggest users use a newer version (10.14+), however this allows users still on 10.13 to run Kodi.
        A regression for macOS reading actual disks was resolved by @enen92 . As part of this, the libcdio driver was also fixed to enable disk usage on Apple Silicon native builds.

    Windows
        A fix to a crash that only occurred on Windows Debug builds has been resolved. This didn't affect users of the actual RC1 release, but Windows devs who would attempt to execute Kodi as a Debug build were quickly halted.

PVR

    An issue around multiple resume dialogs has been fixed by @emveepee - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22247

Teletext

    Another Teletext issue has been resolved by @repojohnray. @repojohnray has contributed a number of fixes for v20 to help increase the reliability and safety of Kodi.

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Quelle: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-nexus-rc-2/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Matrix" 19.5
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 Dezember, 2022, 09:00
Release Notes: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-matrix-19-5-release/

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 20.0 "Nexus" - Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 Januar, 2023, 15:57
 Release Notes : https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-20-0-nexus-release/
Titel: Kodi 20.1 "Nexus"
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 12 März, 2023, 18:00
Changelog


    EndTime: fix overflow when doing large comparisons by @fritsch in #22471
    DXVA: fix AMD SD interlaced workaround by @thexai in #22489
    [video][music] Fixes for playback related context menu item apperance by @ksooo in #22533
    [PVR] Fix sort by channel backend order. by @ksooo in #22544
    [backport] TrueHD fixes + AudioTrack fixes + PAPlayer fixes by @thexai in #22564
    [video][music] Fix next item not selected on queue item context menu item. by @ksooo in #22555
    [video][music] Fix 'Play' and other related context menu items not appearing … by @ksooo in #22575
    [backport] Retroplayer: Savestate manager fixes by @KOPRajs in #22517
    backport: [android] strip abi version off cryptodome lib names by @wsnipex in #22550
    [backport][addons][filesystem] Fix memory limits with kodi::vfs::readline by @phunkyfish in #22593
    [backport][Android][gradle] Configure android.ndkPath by @joseluismarti in #22586
    Fix version format as they need to be sortable by @razzeee in #22504
    [backport][Video][GUIViewState] Add and set missing playlist sort by @CastagnaIT in #22601
    [favourites][keymaps] Favourites Browser window: Catch-up on features of the deprecated Favourites dialog by @ksooo in #22604
    [video][music] Fix playlist item order. … by @ksooo in #22610
    [backport] windowing: X11: Add missing include (fix build with GCC 13) by @thesamesam in #22630
    [PVR] CPVRClients: Optimize calls which obtain client capabilities. by @ksooo in #22655
    [Backport] Game OSD: Address savestate manager usability issues by @garbear in #22632
    [Windows] handle WM_INITMENU event to disable move from system menu when window is in full screen by @thexai in #22671
    [dllwrapper] wrap dll_stat64 and dll_fstat64 by @vpeter4 in #22683
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Code improvements by @garbear in #22666
    [backport][python][xbmcgui] Fix ControlEdit constructor args by @CastagnaIT in #22704
    [backport] RetroPlayer: Improve reading from write-only memory by @garbear in #22694
    fixed: PVR timer validation was broken for certain (TVHeadend) timer rules by @arnova in #22732
    [backport] tools/depends: Python update to 3.11.2 by @lrusak in #22749
    render the .notdef characters to fix drawing of text with missing unicode font by @fritsch in #22659
    [Backport][Subtitles] Fix subtitles in livestreams with high start timestamps by @mediaminister in #22568
    [backport][Subtitles][TagSami] Handle basic color names by @CastagnaIT in #22718
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fixed segmented webvtt sync by @CastagnaIT in #22709
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fix overlapped subtitles on malformed segments by @CastagnaIT in #22719
    [backport][Subtitles][Libass] Fix line spacing to avoid overlap box by @CastagnaIT in #22660
    Audio Backports from testing group by @fritsch in #22757
    [backport][pvr] Always retirieve the max DB ID for providers when reading them from the DB - Nexus by @phunkyfish in #22741
    [Backport] Savestate Manager: Break dependency on DialogSelect and add "Saved with" by @garbear in #22750
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Faster in-game savestate dialog and autosaves by @garbear in #22754
    [backport][upnp]: fix state reporting by @enen92 in #22785
    [Nexus] Update translation related workflows by @gade01 in #22797
    [backport][upnp]: load library art before broadcasting remote watched state by @enen92 in #22783
    [backport] CSMBDirectory: fix return value for smbc_getxattr by @howie-f in #22767
    [settings][airplay] Fix password setting order/dependencies by @enen92 in #22814
    [backport][Subtitles] Fix RTL on subtitles by @CastagnaIT in #22776
    [backport][Subtitles][TX3G] Fix styles lookup by @CastagnaIT in #22831
    [backport][Android] Fix symbol relocation errors on Android x86 by @joseluismarti in #22833
    [Backport] Savestate rendering by @garbear in #22781
    [backport][libass] Temporary font folder checking by @joseluismarti in #22849
    [GUI][GUIImage] Fix inconsistencies for colordiffuse by @enen92 in #22848
    [Backport] Port Dialog: Fix resetting multitaps by @garbear in #22844
    [PVR] Rework PVR windows late init. by @ksooo in #22864
    VideoPlayerAudio: use simple algorithm for self-learning max allowed a/v Out-Of-Sync by @fritsch in #22870
    StringUtils: fix sorting by name with ascii punctuation and symbols o… by @vpeter4 in #22556
    [Backport][GUIImage] Fix regression for color diffuse if no info is set by @enen92 in #22872
    AudioTrack: Increase robustness by @fritsch in #22795
    [backport][Valgrind] Fix some jumps depending on uninitialized values by @neo1973 in #22850
    [Backport] guilib: Fix warning in GUIListGroup control by @garbear in #22887
    [video] Fix watched status not taken into account when queueing items. by @ksooo in #22903
    [backport][Skin][Estuary] Fix player settings adjustments if autoclose video osd is active by @enen92 in #22904
    AESinkAudioTrack: Revert sanity checking by @fritsch in #22905
    [Windows][Installer] fix the missing .html files of Chorus2 with proper exclusion of .h by @thexai in #22908
    [Addons] Having no repos is no error by @mglae in #22916
    [backport] NFSv3 and NFSv4 fixes and improvements by @thexai in #22909
    [Backport] Controller Dialog: Fix "Ignore Input" buttons not being saved by @garbear in #22893
    [Backport] Fixes and improvements from "show actual controllers" PR by @garbear in #22892
    Revert "AESinkAudioTrack: Use most simple pause() logic" by @fritsch in #22907
    ActiveAESink: workaround for TrueHD and DD+ broken after pause or seek in AudioTrack RAW (Android only) by @fritsch in #22945
    [Backport] Sync controller add-ons with controller-topology-project by @garbear in #22928
    [Windows] Fix SMB read chunk size when is not used FileCache by @thexai in #22946
    [upnp] fix regressions for folder definitions by @enen92 in #22859
    [BP] [jenkins][Apple] Some fixes for apple buildsteps in #22958
    [BP] tools/depends: make the hash file an order only prerequisite in #22959
    [BP] VideoPlayerCodec: Stop dividing by zero in #22957
    [BP][Windows][dxva] fix processor height in #22962
    [BP] ExifParser: Fix several out of bounds accesses while parsing exif information in #22960
    [BP][Windows] shrink window to fit the screen and avoid a crash in #22961
    [Nexus] Bump version 20.1 by @fuzzard in #22965

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Omega" Alpha 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 25 April, 2023, 19:40
Zitat
This release is so fresh that we don't yet even have an image... oops!

It's been a hectic last couple of months in the world of Kodi, but the wheels keep on turning. Without any further ado, we are happy to announce the first Alpha release for Kodi 21.x "Omega".

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across.

So, all that aside... what's actually changed?

Changelog


Build/Dependencies

    Build support for GCC13 has been fixed by some users. This allows Kodi to be built on newer toolchains that refactored some header inclusions.
    Some general version bumps have been made for an assortment of dependencies for Android/Apple/CI platforms. Thanks @craigcarnell, @fuzzard.
    @lrusak has endeavoured to improve the way some of the Android/Apple/CI dependency systems work and handle different states.
    @Rechi has fixed a few cmake deprecations and pkgconfig detection issues.

Documentation

    Some new contributors noted some of our contributing guideline documentation was lacking. A few people have helped contribute to hopefully make them more helpful/informative.
    @fixthething has updated some of the Ubuntu build documentation to reflect some modern package names used in more recent Ubuntu versions.

FFmpeg

    Use upstream FFmpeg. This is a big achievement and allows easier FFmpeg updates in the future.
    Update to version 6.0. This puts us inline with the latest FFmpeg release. Compatibility with 5.1.x has been retained for Linux distro support.

Filesystem

    With the introduction of NFSv4 support, a number of issues were quickly discovered by users. @thexai has fixed a many of these, such as timeouts/chunk size defaults for NFSv4.

General

    @repojonray has provided a number of general fixes/improvements to various areas to address e.g. memory leaks and performance improvements.
    Modernisation of several areas of Kodi have been undertaken by a number of developers. A lot of this work will go unseen by users, however it's helping to make Kodi's huge amount of code more maintainable for the future. @lrusak, @neo1973 , @repojohnray, @enen92, @Rechi .
    Add setting to disable screensaver while playing audio.
    @DeltaMikeCharlie has contributed some improvements to the UX regarding date format options.

Games

    Improvements are continually being made to the Retroplayer ecoystem by several devs/users. Thanks to @KOPRajs, @garbear .

JSON-RPC

    genre has been added to the Video.Fields.Episodes field.

Music

    Add support for reading (and writing) M3U8 playlist files. This provides support for non-ASCII characters in the playlist files (UTF-8 character support).

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        Improved Dolby Vision detection and compatibility: implemented support of DV in MKV containers, better handling of different DV profiles with fallback to HDR10 when is possible and display is not DV capable. For some devices, we can now also support hardware tone mapping DV profiles 4, 5 to SDR. Supported profiles vary on different Android devices: for example, the 2019 Shield supports profiles 4, 5, 7, 8 in DV and fallback to HDR10 (profiles 7, 8) but not HW tone mapping to SDR. Similarly, the Fire TV Stick doesn't supports profile 7 although it does support HW tone mapping of profile 5 to SDR (profiles 4, 5, 8 are supported with DV display).
        Implemented minimise shutdown function in Power Saving settings.
        Multiple small internal improvements and use of newer Android APIs to replace deprecated ones.
        @joseluismarti is slowly improving/updating a number of Android-specific features that enable the project to stay up to date with Google Play Store submission requirements.

    iOS/TVOS:
        Support for Channel Up/Down keys when using the iPhone Apple TV Remote app connected to an Apple TV has been added.

    Linux:

        Pipewire:
            Fix implementation to work properly with AudioEngine.
            Add support for passthrough formats. This includes HD audio formats like DTS-HD and TrueHD.

        GBM:
            Add support for libdisplay-info to help parse EDID information and determine display capabilities.

    macOS:
        @enen92 has been slowly but surely improving lots of the macOS native windowing implementation (mouse, resizing, menu bar, shortcut key handling, etc.) that was introduced in Nexus. The official macOS builds do not use this functionality at this point, but with enen92's work, we are inching closer to using it as our default for v21.
        macOS CD/DVD drive handling has been fixed. This also allows M1-based machines to read disks correctly.

    Windows:
        Minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1.
        If they're available, we will now use displays' friendly names in settings (e.g. "LG TV #1").
        Added a setting to use the Windows HDR/SDR brightness balance setting for GUI and subtitles when the display is in HDR PQ mode, and also improved the curve of internal method GUI SDR max peak luminance.
        Improved read performance over SMB in some special cases, e.g. playing full Blu-ray folders.
        Improved graphics compatibility and fallback to enable running in some limited VM hardware (Hyper-V) even without video decoding support.
        Various improvements in DXVA render method to avoid incompatibilities in old hardware or Windows 8, especially in the case of sources with BT.2020 colour space.
        Implemented support for DXVA2 AV1 hardware video decoding 8-bit and 10-bit.
        Specific SDK requirements for building UWP packages have been removed to allow the use of newer SDKs from Visual Studio.

Picture

    Fix security issues discovered regarding image EXIF metadata. Further fixes were also backported from the upstream EXIF data parsing library that is in use in Kodi.

PVR

    Add possibility to sort channel groups to your liking.

Settings

    Some fixes to regressions in Settings visibility have been made.

Subtitles:

    The display of MKV files containing text subtitle entries without the duration set on the Matroska block were fixed, retaining Kodi v19 behaviour. This includes the teletext autoconversion to srt done in PVR backends (e.g. tvheadend).
    Fixed setting of subtitle offset when auto-close video OSD is set.
    @CastagnaIT has continued to support/fix issues with the new subtitle system as they are reported.

UPnP:

    Improved compatibility with official smart TV applications when displaying and browsing served UPnP Kodi libraries.
    Fix artwork when playing/refreshing UPnP items.

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Omega" Alpha 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 Juni, 2023, 10:20
Zitat
Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". This is our second Alpha release for this cycle.

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across.

Over the last couple of months we've merged 120 pull requests - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi.

So... what's actually changed?

Changelog


Build/Dependencies

    Apple platforms are now all built using newer version of Xcode (14.2) and the relevant SDKs. Thanks to a combination of a new M1 Mac mini hardware donation from long time supporter of the project, MacMiniVault.com, and also the Kodi foundation purchasing a second M1 Mac mini, we have been able to decommission our ageing Intel Mac mini's that have been in use for a long time.
    Building on Windows now uses the system curl executable instead of our formerly bundled (ancient) wget executable.
    Improvements to dependency building have been made by @lrusak to make the downloading/hash checking more robust.

Estuary

    Improvements to the seek window timeouts have been made to more correctly disappear after appropriate timeouts.
    Fix visibility of 'next recording' label in PVRTimers was made by @ksooo.

FFmpeg

    One of our newer team members, @neo1973 , has made some cleanups and fixed some crashes in our ffmpeg side data usage, as well as other improvements with our ffmpeg API usage.

General

    Improvements made to handling of movement keys (e.g. PageUp, Down, Home, End) in certain lists such as Settings.
    @rmrector has been endeavouring to improve image cache handling for GUI items. We look forward to the further work he has in the pipeline to improve the cache handling.
    Extraart configurations in advancedsettings.xml for Kodi 18 will no longer be migrated to the new GUI settings when upgrading. If you had meaningful configuration there, check that the artwork settings in the GUI match your preferences.
    @CrystalP extended the navigation history to track the line number of the selected item so that it can be restored when the item disappears from the list, instead of resetting the selection to the top of the list (usually the ..) after the end of playback or changing the watched status of an item.
    The generation of thumbnails was fixed for pictures in portrait orientation. The existing thumbnails in KODI_HOME/userdata/Thumbnails/* must be deleted in order to have new correct ones recreated.

JSON-RPC

    VideoLibrary.GetEpisodeDetails now returns "studio" and "genre" added by @scott967 in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23112.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        @joseluismarti has continued with more cleanups and improvements to the Android codebase. Each improvement makes things easier to manage, and is greatly appreciated.
        @fritsch has been able to make further improvements to AudioTrack to handle hardware that has sinks that get "stuck". Its always a fine line making changes in the Android world, as the multitude of hardware vendors have widely varying implementation qualities of the standard Android APIs.

    Linux:
        @lrusak has added the ability for users to select the audio backend with a command line switch when starting Kodi. This also allows seeing with which enabled audio backends Kodi was built. For more information check out the following PR.

    macOS:
        The minimum OS required for Kodi on macOS is now Mojave (10.14). This was done to allow the project to continue using more modern C++ 17 features. macOS Mojave was released on 24th September 2018 and hardware supported can be seen at Apple.com.
        @enen92 has continued to further improve what is known as "Native windowing" for our macOS codebase that will eventually lead to a formal Apple Silicon version. Improvements to window resizing, menu's, window blanking, improved multiple monitor handling and more.
        For developers, Kodi can also now more easily be run from Xcode without having to alter schemes.
        @ksooo has now correctly added Speechrecognition entitlements for Apple platforms (including iOS/tvOS) which fixes a crash when microphone usage was triggered.
        Support for HiDPI resolutions, such as those marketed as Retina displays, has been introduced in the native windowing version. This enhancement allows Kodi's graphical user interface (GUI) to showcase higher pixel densities, resulting in a sleek and polished appearance on modern Macs.

    webOS
        @sundermann and @craigcarnell have made further improvements to the new webOS platform. Screensaver support has been added, along with audio sink improvements and updates to codec hardware support.

    Windows:
        Minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1.
        @CrystalP and @thexai have made a number of improvements to windows HDR/SDR/HLG display including tonemapping and hardware DXVA support for a number of combinations of those media types.
        @thexai implemented support for "Video Super Resolution" for Nvidia (RTX ) and Intel (ARC) compatible hardware. Please note, we obviously cant test all combinations of hardware, so don't expect this to work for every combination under the sun. Give it a try and report any issues WITH debug logs.
        Bump to libdav1d to version 1.20 should improve AV1 playback support for windows platforms.

Python

    A fix for a regression was made by @lrusak that puts addon paths at the front of the system paths. This fixes addons using system modules instead of potentially customised Kodi modules of the same name. This mostly affects Linux based systems.

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 20.2 "Nexus"
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 29 Juni, 2023, 19:00
Changelog


    [Estuary][MusicViz] Fix label height by @enen92 in #22977
    [Backport][Settings] Remove IsFullScreen complex condition by @enen92 in #22980
    [backport][windowing] fix uninitialised weight by @joseluismarti in #22986
    [video] Fix playlist window data by @ksooo in #23013
    [UPnP] Add extensions to libplatinum mimetypes by @enen92 in #22997
    [Xbox] RendererShaders: Concurrency::event is broken on UWP/Xbox, remove parallelism by @thexai in #23014
    [subtitles] Fix mkv subtitles without duration by @enen92 in #23102
    [Backport] Python API: Fix setting picture/game info via InfoTags by @garbear in #23094
    [Backport] Python API: Add missing gameinfo to Player class by @garbear in #23095
    [backport][Subtitles][WebVTT] Fix reversed pts offset correction by @CastagnaIT in #23128
    [Nexus][PVR] Fix last opened group not always restored on Kodi startup. by @ksooo in #23165
    [Backport] RetroPlayer: Fix memory exhaustion with zero-copy emulators by @garbear in #23142
    [backport][Android] Avoid crash when create recommendation channels a… by @joseluismarti in #23166
    [Nexus][PVR] Prevent crash on saved search by @emveepee in #23195
    [Nexus] ViderPlayerAudio: fix setting of resample mode on stream change by @mglae in #23167
    [BP][Windows] restore window position and size up to virtual screen min-max width & height by @CrystalP in #23218
    [Backport][Windows] fix thread names in debugger / crash dumps by @CrystalP in #23243
    [Windows][build ffmpeg] more robust build scripts by @thexai in #23219
    [backport] Revert "[cmake] glx: find glx library instead of gl" by @lrusak in #23275
    [backport] CPythonInvoker: fix python path by inserting custom path before default path by @lrusak in #23274
    [Backport][Windows] fix playback of HDR material when Windows is already in HDR mode (AMD) by @CrystalP in #23270
    [backport][Nexus]Fix build with GCC>=13 by @bkuhls in #23314
    [Nexus][platform] macOS,iOS: Add speech recognition and microphone usage des… by @ksooo in #23341
    [backport] SavestateFlatBuffer: Remove forward declararion of FlatBufferBuilder by @neo1973 in #23334
    [backport] Fix build with GCC>=13 by @neo1973 in #23333
    [Estuary] Reset 1110_seekbar timer on seeks by @enen92 in #23382
    [Nexus][PVR] Timer settings dialog: Set certain settings to default on change of timer type. by @ksooo in #23385
    [Nexus][video] Fix watched/unwatched filter not working when creating playli… by @ksooo in #23398
    [BP][CMake][FlatC] Don't use local flatc with ENABLE_INTERNAL_FLATBUFFERS if versions don't match by @fuzzard in #23386
    [Estuary] Also start timer (with reset) on seeks by @enen92 in #23400
    [BP] SysfsPath: Have CSysfsPath::Get() return a std::optional because reads can fail by @neo1973 in #23390
    [BP] CRenderManager: Add missing member initialization by @neo1973 in #23391
    Fix Thumbnails of Rotated Pictures by @CrystalP in #23319
    [backport][Addons][Filesystem] No cache, not treat compressed files as directory by @CastagnaIT in #22929
    [Nexus] Backport E-AC3 fixes from master by @HiassofT in #23411
    [backport][Android] Prefer Google raw decoder over MediaTek on old An… by @joseluismarti in #23452
    [FontUtils] Give priority to MS font family name in english by @CastagnaIT in #23444
    [Nexus] Bump version 20.2 by @fuzzard in #23454

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Download: Kodi 20.2 Final for Windows 32-bit (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win32/kodi-20.2-Nexus-x86.exe)

Download: Kodi 20.2 Final for Windows 64-bit (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win64/kodi-20.2-Nexus-x64.exe)

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Omega" Alpha 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 September, 2023, 18:50
Zitat
Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". Slightly delayed this time around compared to what we were striving for, however we are happy to announce the arrival of Alpha 3.

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across.

A further 176 Pull Requests have been merged since Alpha 2 - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi.

So... what's actually changed?

Changelog


Estuary

    A change to Estuary to add "more..." to size-limited lists has been made by @ksooo. The effect of this can be seen in homescreen widgets that have more than 15 items.
    A number of changes to support video information for Movie Sets and TV Seasons has been made.

FFmpeg

    @popcornmix has made several fixes to our FFmpeg library usage. This has gone through several iterations now, and has affected seeking and playback to various degrees. Hopefully, the last of these regressions has now been squashed, but please do let us know if you experience any further regressions around playback using FFmpeg.

Filesystem

    @thexai has changed the chunk size of data requests for local media, increasing it 64kb to improve data throughput.

Games

    @garbear continues to improve the gaming interface of Kodi. Changes around player management/assignment have been made in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23548. Have a read of that PR for more details/info.

General

    @ksooo has continued his whack-a-mole approach with issues regarding menu usage across the Kodi codebase. A fix for no information dialog for music videos, "Local art" missing for the art selection dialog, and further art dialog selection issues are amongst some of the latest fixes.
    TV Shows/Seasons/Movie sets/Recording folders now expose their 'in progress' state via LISTITEM_IS_RESUMABLE.
    The content of the refresh progress dialog has been improved a bit to be more informative for the user - for example, to display the current season and episode being refreshed.
    @repojohnray has had a (lingering) PR merged that fixes a memory leak in context menus.
    Some improvements and optimisations have been made by @neo1973 . This affects several areas (database and curl usage), and every performance fix is greatly appreciated.
    @rmrector has been digging into the image usage of Kodi (caching, allow remote viewing of images without having been displayed in Kodi, preloading of images and general streamlining of the API), and has made several improvements leading to more hotly-anticipated changes to come in the future.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        @quietvoid has had a PR merged that enables the ability to convert some Dolby Vision media types to more common types to allow playback. A forum thread has been around for testing that can explain the benefits a little better than this blog editor, so head there for some info and any feedback/support around the feature: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=371557.
        @fritsch has once again delved into our Audio Engine to fix a regression for Amazon FireTV 4K users: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23687.
        @joseluismarti has further updated some Android dependencies and fixed/modernised areas of our Android API usage.

    Linux:
        Support for cpu_thermal hwmon has been added. This enables devices like the Raspberry Pi to report CPU temperatures without the use of external scripts (as have been common in projects like LibreELEC).
        @smp79 submitted a fix for VAAPI VP9 Profile 2 playback.

    macOS:
        @kambala-decapitator has fixed a crash in the SDL versions of Kodi when pressing the Caps-Lock key. This did not affect the "native windowing" version of Kodi we have migrated to for v21 nightlies, however if you are building for x86_64 intel Macs then this should make using that key less troublesome.
        @enen92 continues his work on improving Kodi for macOS. Network System info has been tackled to improve its speed, and more accurately represent network information like DNS servers used.
        macOS temperature information is currently not supported on Apple Silicon devices due to our usage of a library that does not support them. @enen92 has made a change to report N/A instead of 0.0 for CPU/GPU temperatures.
        Media keys are now supported on macOS.
        Some improvements for moving the Kodi app window from high-DPI screens with differing refresh rates.
        macOS releases are now defaulting to the "native windowing" system.

    webOS
        @sundermann has continued with further improvements to the webOS port, most notably around passthrough and video decoding.

    Windows:
        A PR intended to fix an issue around the Windows platform regularly losing track of the audio output device has been merged by @thexai. This hopefully makes Windows audio outputs more robust to situations where driver updates may change naming.
        @CrystalP has been contributing a number of fixes/improvements particularly aimed at Windows. These include a fix for refresh rate switching for Intel and Nvidia graphics cards that was accidentally broken by a fix aimed at AMD cards.
        More improvements to the recently add Video Super Resolution implementation have been made.

PVR

    A first time contributor @ivanllc has had a PR merged to add a "2 minute" option to the padding timer for PVR recordings.
    @ksooo continues to improve the Kodi PVR system. A number of changes were made, including fixes and tidy ups from static analysis tools (cppcheck and clang-tidy).
    Fixed a long-standing bug with subtitle selection not being preserved upon channel playback restart.

Python

    Changes made to support building Kodi when using Python 3.12.
    Python invoker now passes sys.argv arguments in a logical order to Python addons thanks to @scott967.

Skinning

    a change by @smfontes to allow loading of font sets defined in a skins/fonts folder: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22993.

Subtitles

    Support for .ttc font collections has been added.

Video

    TV show groups (seasons, movie sets, PVR recording folders) with at least one started element (episodes, movies, recordings) but no completely watched ones are now considered as 'in progress' and they, for example, now appear in the respective "In progress" GUI elements like widgets and video windows.
    Fixed play counts (watched state) and last played date of episodes and movies not being preserved on internet update.
    Default select action for videos fixed.

VideoPlayer

    @alanswanson has provided a change to use the FFmpeg software deinterlacer from yadiff to bwdif. This is said to have fairly significant performance improvements over the old interlacing method.

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi "Omega" 21.0 Beta 1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 18 Oktober, 2023, 10:30
Changelog


    [doxygen] System.HasNetwork is not implemented. Document this by @fuzzard in #23736
    [cmake][buildtools] use flatbuffers::flatc target for executable by @fuzzard in #23714
    [cmake] convert some find modules to full TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23727
    [webOS] Support relaunch by @sundermann in #23684
    Some small simplifications by @notspiff in #23740
    [cmake][win] Generate complete build dir layout for Multiconfig gen (VS) by @fuzzard in #22112
    [macos][network] Avoid executing shell commands to get the DefaultGateway and nameserver list by @enen92 in #23724
    [XBMCTinyXML2] Resolve warnings by @enen92 in #23744
    [video] Refactor artwork selection (last step) by @ksooo in #23734
    [PVR] Fix CPVRRecordingsPath path directory/params parsing. by @ksooo in #23751
    [Cmake] fix dav1d ENABLE_INTERNAL build by @fuzzard in #23746
    [cmake] Add FindDetours for windows by @fuzzard in #23747
    [info] Platform code for GPUInfo by @enen92 in #23741
    Fixup warnings macos by @enen92 in #23756
    [cmake] Remove XBT_FILES as a dependency of generate-packaging TARGET by @fuzzard in #23761
    [cmake] Migrate more modules to TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23748
    [MUSIC] Scrape, store and process yt links from TADB for songs in a users local library by @the-black-eagle in #22654
    [Video] Fix crash when scan to library on a directory containing new movies by @joseluismarti in #23767
    [Windows] Fix 24Hz refresh rate when HDR is ON on AMD systems by @thexai in #23766
    [video] CVideoTagExtractionHelper::ExtractEmbeddedArtFor: Use item's dyn path by @ksooo in #23774
    [VideoPlayer] Fixed: Infinite video halt when cache is full & valid by @honest-mule in #23760
    [pipewire] Fix heap-use-after-free in AE::SINK::CAESinkPipewire::EnumerateDevicesEx by @dobo90 in #23716
    tools/depends: Fix rustup by delegating shell choice to shebang by @garbear in #23755
    [cmake] Fix linux Install.cmake after PR 22112 by @fuzzard in #23754
    [cmake] Add platform specific cmake search configurations by @fuzzard in #23776
    [android] Allow packaging other themes for bundled skins by @fuzzard in #23782
    [cmake] gen_skin_pack move to add_custom_command by @fuzzard in #23779
    [guilib][vfs][imagecache] Load video chapter images into texture cache when viewed, like standard images by @rmrector in #23639
    [video] 'Choose art' improvements by @ksooo in #23775
    [PVR][Estuary] Add ParentalRatingCode availability for Skins by @DeltaMikeCharlie in #23586
    [depends][native] Bump meson 1.2.1 by @fuzzard in #23790
    [darwin] Fix header inclusion for Xcode 15 by @fuzzard in #23791
    [cmake] Add build targets always for multi config generators by @fuzzard in #23750
    [cmake] gen_skin_pack remove BYPRODUCT to fix ninja build by @fuzzard in #23795
    [webOS] Signal Dolby Vision with AV1 codec by @quietvoid in #23771
    [depends] Bump zlib to 1.3 by @joseluismarti in #23794
    [FileCache] code improvements, no functional changes by @thexai in #23802
    [Estuary] Update aspect ratio of InfoWallMovieLayout by @gemedet in #23745
    [video] Video info dialog: Reinit cast list on re-open of dialog afte… by @ksooo in #23810
    [webOS] RendererStarfish: Derive from CBaseRenderer by @sundermann in #23815
    Fix build of native/waylandpp-scanner with GCC 13 by @throwaway96 in #23825
    [cmake] add_custom_command only use OUTPUT genex for multi config generators by @fuzzard in #23823
    [Cmake] Create build_internal_depends for MultiConfig Generators by @fuzzard in #23807
    [Cmake] assorted updates to search paths and fixes to *_LIBRARIES usage by @fuzzard in #23809
    [Cmake] FindASS migrate to TARGET usage by @fuzzard in #23824
    [tools/depends][native] gettext force am_cv_func_iconv_works for apple host by @fuzzard in #23829
    [webOS] Don't assume libraries in RUNPATH to be available by @sundermann in #23826
    [webOS] Tune for Cortex-A53 by @throwaway96 in #23822
    [cmake] More TARGET usage (opengl/opengles/iconv/Pulseaudio) by @fuzzard in #23749
    [Android] Replace enum HDRTypes with Display.HdrCapabilities constants by @joseluismarti in #23769
    [upnp] Fix smart playlist folder definitions by @enen92 in #23831
    Fix detect strm file for resume. by @Acidzero2020 in #23841
    [video] use ffmpeg av_display_rotation_get for rotation from metadata by @enen92 in #23832
    [cmake] add EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL when adding to build_internal_depends by @fuzzard in #23842
    [listproviders] CDirectoryProvider: Add attribute 'browse' … by @ksooo in #23814
    [edl] Allow EDL files on private subnets for network shares rather than the one the Kodi host in on by @enen92 in #23836
    [db][streamdetails] Reintroduce external subtitles into streamdetails by @enen92 in #23835
    [guilib] let oninfo propagate from the item to the container if the c… by @enen92 in #23843
    [docs] minors for streamdetails by @enen92 in #23849
    [windows] Fix CGUIMediaWindow::WaitGetDirectoryItems to leave 'wait f… by @ksooo in #23844
    [listproviders][video][PVR][utils][builtins] Fix and Refactor Video Select Actions by @ksooo in #23848
    Revert "[docs] Fix for-the-badge badges" by @enen92 in #23852
    Add infolabels for video width and height by @graham8 in #23850
    [cmake] windows remove superfluous installdata by @fuzzard in #23853
    [macos][depends] Add Smctemp to depends by @enen92 in #23770
    [macos][input] Support NSEnterCharacter for XBMCK_RETURN by @enen92 in #23860
    [favourites][listproviders] Add support for Video Select Actions for Favourites by @ksooo in #23857
    [webOS] Acb (webOS 4.x) support by @mariotaku in #23834
    [webOS] Fix timezone reading by @sundermann in #23847
    [cmake] FindRapidJSON update to newer module standards by @fuzzard in #23851
    Build curl without libpsl dependency by @throwaway96 in #23837
    [Android] Neon is being enabled by default by @joseluismarti in #23830
    [settings][video][PVR][listproviders][favourites] Add default play action setting. by @ksooo in #23863
    [Estuary][Estouchy] Retire Favourites dialog, use Favourites window instead. by @ksooo in #23861
    [favourites] Remove CGUIDialogFavourites. by @ksooo in #23862
    [macOS] Drop SDL windowing implementation by @enen92 in #22990
    [cmake] Refactor and simplify FindFmt.cmake by @fuzzard in #23876
    [fileitem] Fix playlist favourites not working as expected by @ksooo in #23881
    CAddonSettings: Prevent reference cycle with CAddon by @neo1973 in #23864
    [macos][cocoainterface] Address deprecations by @enen92 in #23880
    [VideoPlayer] Updates audio/video queues for nowadays maximum bitrates by @thexai in #23883
    [cmake][linux] remove unused variables by @fuzzard in #23891
    [favourites] Fix CFavouritesService::IsFavourited to only compare man… by @ksooo in #23885
    [video] Fix 'Play using' and external default player not working. by @ksooo in #23894
    [Teletext] Only override the language code from header if it is actua… by @enen92 in #23890
    [DRMPRIME] Remove pitch check by @jernejsk in #23889
    [GUIDialogTeletext] Mark dirty if data has changed in the decoder by @enen92 in #23896
    [favourites] Add selected items of the target to favourite's context menu by @ksooo in #23895
    [video] CGUIWindowVideoBase: Fix CVideoSelectActionProcessor::OnResumeSelected by @ksooo in #23902
    Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #23666
    [video] Fix play/resume of DB and DVD disc images not working from Homescreen widgets by @ksooo in #23905
    [Android][docs] Install NDK using Android SDK Manager by @joseluismarti in #23888
    [windows] CGUIMediaWindow::OnContextButton: Fix 'Browse into' … by @ksooo in #23909
    [video][music] Migrate 'Play using...' to "new" context menu system. by @ksooo in #23901
    [webOS] Acb: Install empty dummy library by @sundermann in #23906
    [upnp] Fix upnp thumbs when using Kodi as a renderer by @enen92 in #23910
    [webOS] Revert "webos: Disable getauxval" by @sundermann in #23911
    [video][music] Migrate last pieces of 'Browse into' to new context menu system. by @ksooo in #23915
    [upnp] clang-format UPnPInternal.cpp by @enen92 in #23916
    [cmake] FindIconv dont add target if libc is the detected provider for iconv by @fuzzard in #23912
    [cmake] FindOpenGLES add IMPORTED_NO_SONAME property by @fuzzard in #23913
    [clang-tidy] modernize-make-(shared|unique) by @Rechi in #23904
    [video][music] Hide play-related context menu items for party mode pl… by @ksooo in #23919
    [cores] Fix external player not recognized as default player. by @ksooo in #23923
    [webOS] Set required memory by @sundermann in #23805
    [favourites] Fix context menu item 'play' and 'resume' not working. by @ksooo in #23925
    add missing c++ headers by @mlauss2 in #23920
    changed: Redact paths in audio/video error toasts by @arnova in #23918
    [favourites][listproviders] Favourites: Add support for action 'info'. by @ksooo in #23924
    fix python XBMCAddon::xbmcgui::Window::onAction() action.getButtonCode() by @icr8ions in #23789
    [fileitem][pvr] Fix context menu item "information" not working... by @ksooo in #23930
    [application] Fix bd selection menu shown when external player is used. by @ksooo in #23931
    [webOS] Pause video on minimize by @sundermann in #23854
    [Windows][UWP] VSync Detection Fixes and Improvements by @CrystalP in #23893
    [PVR] Fix 'switch to previous channel' not working if it is in anothe… by @ksooo in #23932
    [fileitem] Fix mimetype not set/updated properly on loading details. by @ksooo in #23939
    [wayland][input] Remove dead code by @enen92 in #23938
    [webOS] Renderer: Fix render region by @sundermann in #23917
    [favourites] Fix crash on moving items in favourites widget and favourites window. by @ksooo in #23946
    [Android] Clang -march flag is not needed by @joseluismarti in #23872
    [clang-tidy] fix performance-* warnings by @Rechi in #23941
    [linux] add --gl-interface= switch by @lrusak in #23907
    CPlatformFreebsd: use app params to set audio backend by @lrusak in #23886
    CNetworkPosix: implement ping using sockets instead of system call to ping by @lrusak in #23870
    [uPnP] Fix playback of files accessed with curl (ftp, http, ...) by @CrystalP in #23711
    [Android][FFmpeg] flag --enable-neon has no actual effects on Android targets by @joseluismarti in #23839
    [keymaps] Remove leftovers from favourites dialog. by @ksooo in #23951
    [rendering] use default luminance for tone mapping of streams with bad metadata by @CrystalP in #23078
    [Eventlog] fix eventlog messages by @DaVukovic in #23827
    [cmake] FindPulseAudio fix compile definition by @fuzzard in #23955
    [Omega] Beta1 by @fuzzard in #23948

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Download: Kodi 21.0 Beta 1 for Windows 32-bit (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win32/kodi-21.0-Omega_beta1-x86.exe)
Download: Kodi 21.0 Beta 1 for Windows 64-bit (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win64/kodi-21.0-Omega_beta1-x64.exe)

https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi (XBMC) 21.0 Beta 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 10 Dezember, 2023, 20:50
Changelog


    [webOS] Platform: Fix HOME variable append by @sundermann in #23954
    [cores] Fix CDVDInputStreamBluray::Open check for item being resumable. by @ksooo in #23967
    [playlistplayer] Fix PVR items not handled correctly. Those need to b… by @ksooo in #23961
    [video] CGUIWindowVideoBase::OnItemInfo: Skip check whether a video i… by @ksooo in #23969
    [GUI][Skins] Bump to xbmc.gui 5.17.0 by @jjd-uk in #23926
    [PVR] Fix playing channel not always highlighted in dialogs/windows. by @ksooo in #23971
    [interfaces] Fix PVR channel playback from remote app 'favourites' by @ksooo in #23972
    [video] Fix 'Play using' offering RetroPlayer for playback of iso bd/dvd disc images. by @ksooo in #23983
    [video] Fix CVideoDatabase::GetMusicVideosByWhere to set dyn path … by @ksooo in #23980
    [tools/depends] Bump wayland related dependencies by @fuzzard in #23982
    Fix Visual Studio warnings by @thexai in #23976
    [PVR] Fix/Improve recently played channels widget (e.g. respect hidden groups and channels). by @ksooo in #23985
    [Windows] Disable video settings not supported by the DXVA processor. by @CrystalP in #23988
    [tvos] Resolve some build issues with Xcode 15 by @fuzzard in #23949
    [cmake] Create FindPythonInterpreter for host information by @fuzzard in #23877
    [docs] Coding guidelines changes by @ksooo in #23998
    [cmake] add ${CORE_PLATFORM_NAME_LC}_SEARCH_CONFIG NO_DEFAULT_PATH for windows by @fuzzard in #23997
    Switch remote poweroff button behaviour to show shutdown menu, like on keyboards by @HiassofT in #23806
    [tools/depends] Bump Python 3.11.6 by @fuzzard in #23995
    VDPAU: fix hq scalers by @smp79 in #23973
    Format GUIControlFactory.cpp/h by @garbear in #23979
    [python][window] Delete pcontrol after SendGUIMessage by @CastagnaIT in #24002
    [upnp] Alternative fix for serving smartplaylists via upnp by @enen92 in #24008
    [docs] Coding guideline: Add, that we are using prefix operators in t… by @ksooo in #24004
    [depends][Python] Set setuptools library suffix by @sundermann in #23994
    Don't flush ffmpeg buffers if it holds any refs on close by @smp79 in #23996
    [Estuary] OSD showing wrong value for ‘Next’ programme when playing radio. by @FergusGeorge in #24017
    [Estuary] Fix home categories focus position by @HitcherUK in #24000
    [wayland][input] Add xkb compose and dead-keys support by @enen92 in #23943
    Fix 'Shift' view for Collections by @HitcherUK in #24024
    [video][music][interfaces][fileitem] STRM file fixes by @ksooo in #24025
    [FileSystem] Add GUI settings for NFS and SMB chunk size by @thexai in #24019
    Fix controller not rendering for copied gamecontroller controls by @garbear in #23987
    [PVR] const correctness improvements. by @ksooo in #24029
    [GUI] [Skins] Add locale InfoLabels for Skins by @DeltaMikeCharlie in #24028
    [video][PVR] Info dialogs: Add support for default play action by @ksooo in #24031
    [contextmenumanager] Fix 'More...' context menu item displayed for favourites… by @ksooo in #24037
    [Estuary] Fix alignment of counter labels in File Manager by @HitcherUK in #24041
    [python] Fix xmbc.getRegion("time") by @mglae in #24009
    [xkbcommon] Unify xkbLogger by @enen92 in #24045
    [builtins] PlayerBuiltins: PlayOrQueueMedia: Fixes by @ksooo in #24048
    [fileitem] Fix 'action play' not working for favourites for strm files. by @ksooo in #24047
    VAAPI: increase maxReferences for AV1 by @smp79 in #24042
    [PVR] Fix recordings with a path containing a ':' not displayed in recordings window. by @ksooo in #24053
    [CApp] Kill XBMC to Kodi migration by @enen92 in #24052
    [python] Add songVideoURL to InfoTagMusic by @the-black-eagle in #24061
    [PVR][Estuary] PVR core should not set label2 for PVR recording folde… by @ksooo in #24059
    [cmake] copy_file_to_buildtree make sure we create ExportFiles.cmake by @fuzzard in #24056
    [tools/depends] Bump openssl 1.1.1w by @fuzzard in #24003
    Use std::make_(shared|unique) by @notspiff in #23757
    [Cmake] enable_internal_cec by @fuzzard in #21585
    [imagecache] CVideoGeneratedImageFileLoader check setting to extract thumb by @rmrector in #24006
    [imagecache] clarify logic around image revalidation, fixing some images returning 404 via HTTP by @rmrector in #23956
    [input] Use smartpointers to wrap raw xkb pointers in libinput by @enen92 in #24036
    [libinput] Add dead-key xkbcommon-compose support by @enen92 in #24044
    [Documentation] Update doxygen for v20 and v21 game-related changes by @garbear in #24055
    [Discs] Fix ISOs are opened using File Cache in some cases and bad read size (sector size) by @thexai in #24060
    [Estuary] Player Viewer: Give example static content for skin devs by @garbear in #24073
    Picture: Switch internal functions to use smart pointers by @neo1973 in #24022
    Fix crash due nullptr surface using DXVA2 by @fritsch in #24085
    [Estuary] Fix weather layout when busy by @HitcherUK in #24090
    Backport weather fix by @HitcherUK in #24091
    Revert "Backport weather fix" by @HitcherUK in #24092
    [FileSystem] Move File Cache settings to GUI settings by @thexai in #24049
    [video] GUIWindowVideoNav.cpp: Remove unused include. by @ksooo in #24094
    [Rendering] Share the heuristics guessing SD/HD primaries across platforms by @CrystalP in #23953
    [macOS][Jenkins] migrate from altool to notarytool by @kambala-decapitator in #24032
    [Doxy] Improve documentation of game windows by @garbear in #24079
    [cmake] FindEGL set CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES for check_include_files by @lrusak in #24099
    [Xbox] Add support for HDR10 passthrough by @thexai in #24083
    tools/depends: curl adjust configure options by @lrusak in #24089
    [Xbox] Fix crash on close App by @thexai in #24104
    [Doxy] Fix formatting of Window IDs table by @garbear in #24106
    Fix/update strings.po with translations for game window IDs by @garbear in #24071
    Add tranlation for Peripherals dialog with ID 10149 by @garbear in #24105
    windowing/gbm: add EGL fencing for atomic drm by @lrusak in #23921
    [builtins] PlayerBuiltins::PlayOrQueueMedia: Fix logging and slightly optimize by @ksooo in #24114
    [Android] Unused variable m_colorFormat in MediaCodec by @joseluismarti in #24103
    [videoplayer] Go to Chapter Start for "Previous Chapter" Past Grace Period by @CrystalP in #24066
    [guilib][vfs][imagecache][pvr] Load PVR group images into texture cache when viewed, like standard images by @rmrector in #24087
    ffmpeg: Bump to version 6.0.1 by @fritsch in #24080
    [PVR] CGUIWindowPVRBase: Prevent concurrent updates caused by GUI_MSG_UPDATE by @ksooo in #24118
    [fileitem] CFileItem::LoadDetails: Add support for strm files containing an audio item. by @ksooo in #24119
    [PVR] Fix racing problems due to ACTION_CHANNEL_SWITCH message being … by @ksooo in #24116
    [video] CAsyncItemsForPlaylist: If we shall resume but can't, default… by @ksooo in #24120
    [Settings] Adjust the "Use display HDR capabilities" setting by @CrystalP in #24100
    [Settings][Windows] Update the description of the DXVA VSR setting by @CrystalP in #24123
    [VideoPlayer] Fix cache level calculation and add to Debug Info OSD by @thexai in #24117
    [clang-tidy] modernize-use-emplace by @Rechi in #23960
    Correctly handle 'Disc n' subdirectories in scraping and set creation. by @78andyp in #24076
    [Estuary] Modify settings decription field to avoid unnecessary autoscroll by @CrystalP in #24124
    [VideoPlayer] Remove unused code by @thexai in #24126
    [Feature][video]Added Video Versions feature by @xodidox in #14972
    [VideoVersion] Added VideoVersionPlay dialog by @xodidox in #24132
    [Android] Check if dovi profile is supported by the codec by @joseluismarti in #23577
    Remove article from summary by @razzeee in #24084
    [video] Fix auto play next item not working if 'uncategorized' is not… by @ksooo in #24134
    Fix Visual Studio warnings by @thexai in #24139
    [Android] Set codec profile 8 in DOVI compatibility mode by @quietvoid in #24143
    [cleanup][Windows] Remove a few compiler warnings and unnecessary global by @CrystalP in #24138
    XBMCTinyXML2: Strip trailing '\0' when writing to file by @neo1973 in #24141
    [Windows] address recommendations of VS code analysis tools for WinMain by @CrystalP in #24149
    [Estuary] Add Theora video codec flag image by @joseluismarti in #24154
    [VideoVersion] Fixed unexpected VideoVersion dialog in VideoInfo dial… by @xodidox in #24156
    [Games] Remove hard-coded button combos by @garbear in #24147
    [media] Consistency across platforms splash screens (avoid versions) by @enen92 in #24137
    [Estuary] Cleanup noise from DefaultVideoVersions icon by @the-black-eagle in #24127
    Add LoongArch support to system info by @212dandan in #23989
    [metadata.generic.artists] 1.0.18 by @ronie in #24163
    [Estuary] Add media flags for music by @jjd-uk in #24162
    [swig] Fix misleading indentation warnings by @fuzzard in #24140
    [linux][docs] add note about libdisplay-info when building kodi with gbm windowing by @lrusak in #24018
    [Addons] Remove GLES3/gl3ext.h include by @sundermann in #23855
    [Android] Ignore obsolete DOVI profiles from codec selection by @quietvoid in #24172
    Fix websocket pong by @a1rwulf in #23875
    [Android] Change the directory used to verify the SDK path by @joseluismarti in #23977
    [Estuary] Video Version skin redesign + cleanup by @jjd-uk in #24146
    [Estuary] Adjust plot height in video fullscreen info by @CrystalP in #24174
    [cmake] FindRapidJSON fix capitalisation by @fuzzard in #24179
    Translations update from Kodi Weblate by @weblate in #23963
    Sync of addon metadata translations by @github-actions in #24190
    [EDL] Migrate to tinyxml2 by @enen92 in #24185
    [VideoDatabase] Fix unnecessary query is always made to obtain cast by @thexai in #24177
    Remove use of pcrecpp from Kodi by @rschupp in #24128
    [tools/depends][target] Bump curl 8.4.0 by @fuzzard in #24011
    [LanguageCodes] Narrow mode for finding language code by @CastagnaIT in #23780
    [video] Video Versions: Refactor play/select logic by @ksooo in #24180
    [Scraper] Support for filename identifiers by @sundermann in #23840
    DNSNameCache: check hostname can be an IPv6 address by @joseluismarti in #24200
    [video] Refactor Video Action Processors by @ksooo in #24204
    Add OEM 102 key (OEM key on 102-key keyboards) by @garbear in #24202
    [tools/depends] Bump Python 3.11.7 by @fuzzard in #24194
    Sync game controller add-ons by @garbear in #24191
    [UPnP] Make m_delegate a unique_ptr by @enen92 in #24205
    AddonSettings: Correct order of destructor calls by @neo1973 in #24197
    [Estuary] Fix Shift view overlays by @jjd-uk in #24168
    [VideoVersions] Optimize retrieval of video versions existence by @CrystalP in #24183
    CGBMUtils: return references to objects in getters by @lrusak in #23869
    [UPnP] Player: Make transport state thread safe by @enen92 in #24201
    [VideoPlayer] Double the initial refresh rate for interlaced streams by @CrystalP in #24121
    [Omega] Beta2 by @fuzzard in #24207

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Titel: Kodi 20.4 "Nexus" - Release
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 14 Februar, 2024, 18:07
Release Notes

Build

    A backport aimed at fixing the failure rate of binary addon builds has been merged by @garbear.

Input

    Update to the controller addons.

Platform Specific

    Android
        Several fixes have been backported from master to fix deployment issues on Google Play. Thanks to @joseluismarti for working with us on these.
        A number of fixes backported to resolve input issues (remotes/controllers).

    iOS/tvOS
        A long-time-coming fix to reduce black screen playback when interlaced content is played on iOS/tvOS. Users should no longer have to specifically disable VTB Hardware playback for most interlaced content. Please keep in mind some methods of content playback (HTTP URLs provided in .strm files) will still be affected.
        A memory leak with game controllers on iOS/tvOS has been fixed by @kambala-decapitator.

    tvOS
        @kambala-decapitator fixed what seems to be a long standing bug regarding framework plist metadata for shared library frameworks.

    Windows
        A fix for AESinkWASAPI to improve fallback when the exact output channel layout isn't supported by drivers or hardware.

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Titel: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Beta 3
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 01 März, 2024, 18:00
Release Notes

Editorial note: this blog post has been delayed for technical reasons, so the release is already available.

Time marches on for Kodi 21 "Omega", we are here with the third Beta release!

This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across.

First, we'd like to make a few targeted announcements.

Android users

Many users may still be on the Kodi testing track for their Android devices. It's far easier to leave the testing track from a 'phone-based device, but be aware that if your device is on the testing track, we will be continuing to deploy Beta 3 releases over the next week or so. If you wish to opt out of the testing group, one way you can is by visiting the following link Google Play - Kodi testing track. From here, you can opt out for your Google Play account. This is the best (and possibly only) way to opt out on many Android TV devices (e.g. Nvidia Shields).

With that said, for those adventurous types who would like to help us with testing, you can use the same link to opt in for a Google Play account.

Skin Developers

An API bump has been made for Kodi 21's testing cycle. See the following PRs for details:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23926

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23862

This will require changes and submissions to the Omega branch for skins for those who submit to the Kodi repository. Reach out on the forums if you have any questions/concerns.

Please note, https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23927 has been merged shortly after Beta 2, and all skins will need to update the GUI version number to be available in Omega repos for any builds (including nightlies) after Beta 2.

The following forum thread has the skinning change info for Omega: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=372280&pid=3174566#pid3174566

And now, for the list of changes for Beta 3.

Build/Dependencies

    Support for building with swig 4.2.0

General

    The way in which buffer fill was handled was changed to care more for low-power CPU devices. Under certain circumstances, and with especially high manually-configured readbuffer factors, the buffer filling thread caused high CPU usage and introduced stutter by itself.
    Implemented new "Adaptive" setting in Services / Caching / Read Factor that allows a variable read factor based on cache level. This means that the cache fills faster, while at same time using a less aggressive read factor when it's already filled.
    Fixed media served through plugins not being accessible when a master lock is used.

JSON-RPC

    Add command to change playback speed (tempo).
    Add a command to activate screen saver.

Music

    Fix an issue with m3u playlists which didn't show art for the second and subsequent tracks: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/24675.
    Allow navigation from artists directly to songs, missing out albums and discs. This is more like how Spotify et al. navigate: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/24649, forum thread https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=375313.
    Only drop music database triggers on clean if they exist, which fixes a problem that occurred if Kodi was closed/crashed whilst a clean was underway on the Music database.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        The audio changes for the Android ecosystem were documented in https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376161.
        Due to various firmware bugs on multiple devices we were forced to add some opt-in audio settings for (especially) the widely-used FireTV Cube 3rd Gen, which were enabled by default until this beta, but sadly regressed on half-broken firmwares of other devices. It's not possible to maintain a deny list as available systems and versions change too quickly, plus Kodi release cycles can't be synchronised with every big vendor putting out fixes. As such, we decided to move this into an advanced setting, with more information available in the linked forum thread. Feel free to open new issues if you see regressions of some sort, but please don't forget your debug log, as help isn't possible otherwise due to the sheer variety of differently-broken boxes.
        Another advanced setting now allows the output of high-precision 32-bit float from within Kodi for multi-channel PCM files. This is again an advanced setting because some devices fail silently when opening this combination. Float32 is the highest precision Android's Audiotrack Soundserver can handle. It was tested and is working on Shield and FireTV 4K 2nd Gen.
        We received a whole lot of bug fixes from external contributors this time, with the focus on HDMI Hotplug after refresh rate changes and also Audio device enumeration. The long-standing bug of losing Android IEC devices during IDLE is solved. We are very thankful for these contributions.
        @quietvoid has implemented a new setting in Player / Processing that allows filtering of HDR dynamic metadata HDR10+ and/or Dolby Vision to improve compatibility on devices that had issues, especially with hybrid videos that includes both types at same time.

    iOS/tvOS
        Disable VTB (hardware decoding) for real-time interlaced videos.

    Linux:
        Pipewire sink got a fixup for sample rate switching. With that updated code, the back-end server of Pipewire will switch the base sample rate whenever Kodi is run without additional other clients. This way, Kodi's audio will be output in the best possible and lossless way throughout the audio chain, including soundserver and audio device.
        Adjusted dependencies to build packages compatible with Ubuntu Focal to Noble for CPack building
        @fightforlife has fixed an issue with RenderCapture used by things like Hyperion that fixes sporadic black screen captures

    webOS
        Map info key on webOS remotes.
        Disable core dumps by default to reduce less storage being used on webOS TVs.
        Implement shutdown/reboot .

    Windows:
        Improved chroma upscaling when using Pixel Shaders or Software render methods, and also DXVA only in specific cases: AMD + old drivers + 10-bit SDR.
        Improved channel layout match in WASAPI when audio drivers do not support the exact speaker layout. This is only relevant for PCM (not passthrough).
        Increased the number of video surfaces in DXVA H.264 decoding to prevent video corruption in some rare H.264 streams.

Pictures

    Long time contributer @notspiff added avif image support.
    @enen92 fixed an Exif parsing regression that was introduced in Matrix (v19).

Scraping

    .nomedia files can now be used to exclude folders inside a TV show: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/24330
    @78andyp fixed what looks like has been broken for a long period - the ability to scrape episodes in Bluray folders (BDMV).

Skinning

    The estouchy skin has been retired from default installs. If anyone would like to continue working on the skin for future use/availability, you can find the new home for the skin at https://github.com/jjd-uk/skin.estouchy for now.
    The player control dialog for Estuary has been updated, along with other changes to bring the skin up to date for 5.17.0 API.
    A fix for duplicate music flags was made by @jjd-uk.

UPnP

    @enen92 has once again made an assortment of fixes for UPnP, such as fixed broadcasting of item updates and 'mark as watched' state.
    An option was added to avoid volume synchronisation to a UPnP target.

Known Issues

You can see open issues on our tracker at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues. However, to call out a couple of specifics, please be aware of the following if you're planning on upgrading:

    There are seek issues with multi-part MP4 files on Android (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/23673).
    We've had reports that the new splash screen looks like an OpenGL corruption; we know, it's not a problem, so don't panic. We'd be happy to have your artwork contributions if you'd like to work on an alternative.
    If remote sources are unavailable at startup, users are seeing significant delays while waiting (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/23958).

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 20.5 "Nexus"
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 03 März, 2024, 10:00
Changelog


    [Backport] Revert Android joystick fixes by @garbear in #24708
    [Backport] Android: add colorMode config to .Main activity in AndroidManifest.xml by @matthuisman in #24711
    AESinkAudioTrack: Help broken firmwares to make kodi ignore broken delay by @fritsch in #24729
    [backport] Allow to build with taglib-2.0 by @neo1973 in #24772
    Add branding color to metainfo for linux by @razzeee in #24774
    [backport] EGLUtils: Fix nullptr usage in EglErrorCallback by @neo1973 in #24773
    [Nexus] Release 20.5 by @fuzzard in #24782

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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" RC1
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 07 März, 2024, 15:00
Changelog

Estuary

    A consistency fix was made by @Hitcher to make OSD controls for some buttons to just be disabled, rather than hidden, so the buttons stay shown in a consistent manner.

Filesystem

    A partial revert has been made that fixes some binary addons being unable to correctly parse some XML files.

General

    @ksooo continues to clean up things related to the Video Version feature. This time he has fixed a media name label that would be blank under certain circumstances.
    A first time contributor, @hagaygo, has made a fix to allow users to set a subtitle save path rather than using a temp location under some circumstances.
    @CrystalP submitted two fixes that fix list locations after adding/removing versions/extras and their art related management.

Music

    audiobooks were showing their last chapter with no duration; this has been fixed by @the-black-eagle.

Platform Specifics

    Android:
        Cleanups to build/package files have been made by @joseluismarti. This helps get the codebase nice and clean for the newer Android SDKs leading into the future, meaning we can more easily backport to Omega when we are making changes for v22 "P" in the future.
        @thexai has made a change that allows subtitles to be tonemapped to avoid extreme brightness for HDR playback.

    Linux:
        @fritsch, our resident audio expert, has submitted a change to allow Pipewire to properly identify HDMI for passthrough usage.

    macOS:
        @enen92 has implemented Hotkeycontroller for media keys on macOS. This allows Kodi to more accurately capture and handle media-related keys and allows us to play more nicely with other running apps on a system expecting to use the same media keys.

    Windows:
        @thexai has submitted some colour accuracy changes for 10bit SDR/HDR colour mapping.

PVR

    A fix for icons not being correctly refreshed was made by @ksooo.

VideoPlayer

    @popcornmix has tracked down a variable initialisation bug that helps to reduce video stalls under certain conditions.
    A fix that stops incorrect refresh rate changes occurring for interlaced content in some circumstances was submitted by @CrystalP.

Known Issues

You can see open issues on our tracker at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues. However, to call out a couple of specifics, please be aware of the following if you're planning on upgrading:

    There are seek issues with multi-part MP4 files on Android (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/23673).
    We've had reports that the new splash screen looks like an OpenGL corruption; we know, it's not a problem, so don't panic. We'd be happy to have your artwork contributions if you'd like to work on an alternative.
    If remote sources are unavailable at startup, users are seeing significant delays while waiting (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/23958).


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https://kodi.tv/
Titel: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" RC 2
Beitrag von: SiLæncer am 19 März, 2024, 20:30
Changes


    [BP][macOS] fall back to legacy OpenGL profile on NSOpenGLContext creation error #24822 by @kambala-decapitator in #24823
    [BP][cmake] UWP fix escaping generate-UWP-pythonfix script by @fuzzard in #24839
    [BP][tools/depends] LLVM15 support - reduce errors to warnings by @fuzzard in #24840
    Install scalable svg icon by @razzeee in #24853
    [Omega][video] Fix regression when playing deleted movie. by @ksooo in #24863
    [Omega] RC2 by @fuzzard in #24848

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Full changelog (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/compare/21.0rc1-Omega...21.0rc2-Omega)

Download: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" RC 2 (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win32/kodi-21.0-Omega_rc2-x86.exe)

Download: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" RC 2 x64 (http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/windows/win64/kodi-21.0-Omega_rc2-x64.exe)

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