Kodi 16.0 Jarvis – Beta 1 now available

atb_team November 17, 2015

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Three weeks ago the Kodi team released the final version of Kodi 15.2 Isengard. Currently available is a Kodi 16.0 Jarvis 16.0 Beta 1 version. What features have been added and removed, the list below.

Newly added features:

DirectX 11 upgrade
4:3 Non-linear Stretch
Event logging
Split up skin settings
Image resource add-ons
Long press feature to remote controls
Android Surface Rendering
Removal of libstagefright
Add-on manager changes
– Roll-back button on add-on info panel has been replaced by Update
– The Update button now opens a list of available versions of the add-on. Should you have several repositories installed that offer different version of this add-on you can now choose which to install.
– You can now disable auto-update per add-on through the info panel individual from others.
Remowe karaoke feature

Other Important Changes:

Start of integration of ADSP (Audio Digital Signal Processing) 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
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
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
Extended support for browsing movies by country and through UPnP as well as user-ratings which we be added in future versions.