Kodi team probably soon will unveil the final version of Kodi 16.0 Jarvis, but before this happens, now available is a Kodi 16.0 Jarvis Release Candidate 2.
What has changed in this version Kodi 16.0 RC2 and what kind of problems fixed compared to Release Candidate 1, below:
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- Additional fixes done on saving setting when switching between different profiles
- Increase time-out when searching for audio devices on Windows which solves some cases of Kodi not starting
- Fix crash when unplugging USB devices
- Fix crash when choosing Add Timer in EPG window
- Implement the more future proof DirectX11 for Windows which still works for DirectX9 video cards;
- Event logging which among others shows which video files didn’t got added to your library;
- Skin settings are now stored as separate files like any other add-on which makes migrating settings a lot easier;
- Image resource add-ons which provide a single point of entry for skins to share common used images like movie studio icons and record labels which saves quite a lot of space and bandwidth;
- Audio DSP (Digital Signal Processing) add-on integration and are already included which could make things possible like equalizers, sound processing, fake surround and more
- PVR/DVR section has been extended and improved massively which now also handles series recording
- Music library improvements which includes asking to scan to library when adding locations and also better tag scanning
- Button long-press which extends the functionality of a single button to handle two functions which is great for button deprived remotes
- User interface now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for 3D TVs or VR headsets
- Extend the UPnP server/client integration between Kodi installations
- Android now support a Surface Rendering which keeps the interface at normal HD resolution while allows playback of 4K on supported devices
- Removal of the infamous libstagefright on Android which served us for the past years while the Android platform matured to a fully fetaured MediaCodec
- Add-on manager underwent heavy changes which includes slightly different structure, per add-on auto-update on/off switch, better update/rollback support to choose from repos,
- Extend the included keyboard layouts which includes Korean and Chinese
- Improved multi-touch support which now also works on Linux
- Gives skin developers a more reliable platform to work from and reduce amount of work for adapting to new Kodi versions
- Greatly improved audio and video playback in general
You can download Kodi 16.0 Jarvis Release Candidate 2 (RC2) from the Official Kodi 16.0 development downloads.
Source: kodi.tv
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