Kodi 16.0 Jarvis – Beta 1 now available

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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  – Roll-back button on add-on info panel has been replaced by Update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.

You can download Kodi 16.0 Jarvis Beta 1 from the Official Kodi 16.0 alpha and development downloads.

Source: Kodi.tv