De eerste bètarelease van Kodi versie 15.0 is uitgekomen. Kodi, dat voorheen onder de naam XBMC werd aangeboden, is crossplatform-mediacentersoftware die wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS en de Raspberry Pi.
Nieuw in versie 15.0, die codenaam Isengard heeft gekregen, is onder meer adaptive seeking, wat inhoudt dat er met grotere of kleinere stappen door audio- en videobestanden kan worden gesprongen. Verder is er ondersteuning voor hevc h265 onder Android op bepaalde chipsets en wordt er overgestapt op C++11 voor de code. Dit heeft echter wel tot gevolg dat de minimumspecificaties omhooggaan. Zo is er minimaal OS X 10.7, iOS 5.1 of Android 4.2 nodig voor versie 15. De release notes voor bèta 1 zien er als volgt uit:
Improvements so far
There were about 780 requests that contained multiple fixes, features, and improvements that went into the current 15.0 beta release. All these changes should sum up in an even better user experience while using Kodi. We could start summing up all the changes but there’s really no point in doing so. Instead will make a quick selection of the most important changes done.Mac OSX
- 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
iOS
- Minimal 10.7 Lion required
- Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
- Minimal MacOSX 10.10 SDK
Android
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required
- Minimal iOS 8.1 SDK
- No more ATV2 builds
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
- Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Android PIL packaging fixed
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