De final release 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 kan er op een visuele manier naar hoofdstukken worden gesprongen, is er ondersteuning voor hevc h265 onder Android op bepaalde chipsets en wordt er overgestapt op C++11 voor de code. al dit moois heeft echter wel tot gevolg dat de minimumspecificaties zijn verhoogd. Zo is nu minimaal OS X 10.7, iOS 5.1 of Android 4.2 nodig. De changelog voor versie 15.0 ziet er als volgt uit:
Kodi 15.0 Features
Across platforms, Kodi itself has gained quite a lot of features. Some notable examples include:Other improvements include:
- 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.
Changes from 14.2 to 15.0 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
- And more. See release notes for RC2, RC1, Beta2 and Beta1 for a full list.
- 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 ofTuxbox 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
- And more. See release notes forRC2,RC1,Beta2andBeta1for a full list.