![]() There are a few new security features implemented now in Kodi, to help keep you safe from intentional or unintentional problems. Most new features here revolve around usability: PVR reminders, home screen widgets, group/channel manager enhancements, navigation and dialog controls, context menus, New/Live/Finale/Premiere tags, channel numbering and sorting, performance improvements, API improvements. Binary addons in general get improvements to system documentation, cleaned up settings dialogs, and better help text.Īnother significant part of Kodi that's had a lot of attention in this release. Kodi 19 replaces the old XML metadata scrapers with new default Python for movies and TV shows there are also new Python scrapers for music, Generic Album Scraper and Generic Artist Scraper. Much of the community has come with us, so, hopefully, your favourite addons will still function, but we're at the mercy of third-party contributors to update their work. Because the old Python 2.7 has gone out of support, we've finally made the wholesale move to Python 3 and ported our addons across. Python comes in for some major changes in Kodi 19. Some changes may be subtle, but all are designed to improve your experience.Īn often-overlooked feature, but immensely useful to so many people, subtitles get some attention in this release: timestamp overlays get fixed, plus you can now select a dark grey colour and set an opacity for the captions (particularly useful in HDR - protect your eyes, kids, you'll miss them when they're gone). As such, it's always getting some attention, and this release is no different: screen redesign, especially for music new metadata displays changes to playlist views a new "now playing" view artwork and image file improvements both new and updated GUI controls. NFO files that list all performers instead of just the main artist, plus better search links to return related albums and videos by the same director director.Īnd, finally, if your definition of "play" is more game-related, we've implemented integer scaling to improve the viewing quality of Pixel Art games across the board, while iOS get support for Xbox, PlayStation and other supported Bluetooth game controllers.įor many people, the interface is Kodi - it's how you find your way around, it's how you interact with the application and your media. There are also new features around grouping videos by artist (not just album), support for. ![]() There's a new, Matrix-inspired visualisation, there are improvements to display when fetching files from a web server, and several changes to how audio decoder addons can pass information through to the Kodi player.įor video, most of the changes are more technical, and may depend on your hardware: AV1 software decoding, HLG HDR and static HDR10 playback on Windows 10, static HDR10 and dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support on Android, and more OpenGL bicubic scalers.įor those who combine the two, and have libraries of music videos, you get some goodies as well: database and metadata display improvements mean that Kodi will now fetch and display related album and artist information from the music library, where appropriate. ![]() ![]() Kodi is an open-source media center that was initially designed for the XBOX game console, but was quickly ported to other platforms such as Windows and Linux, and eventually to low-cost Android TV boxes and single board computers such as Raspberry Pi.Ī new stable release of the software comes out every couple of years, and the developers have just announced the release of Kodi 19 “Matrix” a little over two years after Kodi 18 “Leia” release.įor audio and music lovers, there are significant improvements across the board to metadata handling: library improvements, new tags, new displays, improvements to how Kodi handles release dates, album durations, multi-disc sets, and more. ![]() Kodi 19 “Matrix” released with AV1, HDR, tvOS support ![]()
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