Kodi 16.0 Jarvis – Release Candidate 2 now available

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.

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What has changed in this version Kodi 16.0 RC2 and what kind of problems fixed compared to Release Candidate 1, below:

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