Forse molti di voi non ricordano Kodi, il progetto nato dall’ex XBMC, ovvero un vero e proprio media-center open-source che continua ad essere aggiornato e migliorato. Durante le ultime ore il team di sviluppo ha rilasciato l’ultima release alpha, precisamente la versione 15, nome in codice Isengard, che come vedrete subito sotto, offre un changelog molto corposo.
Ecco le principali novità di Kodi 15:
- Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
- Android HEVC support for some chipsets
- Improve webserver caching control
- External subtitles over UPnP
- 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 2.5.4 update
- Remove remaining SDL code
- Minimal Mac OSX 10.7 Lion required
- Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required
- iOS 8.1 SDK & MacOSX 10.10 SDK
- 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
- Android PIL packaging fixed
- Changed code to C++11
- Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minors fixed
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
Sicuramente ottime novità per Android, dato che adesso il software supporta nativamente la decodifica hardware H.265/HEVC.
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