Con el lanzamiento de la RC1 «Release candidate» cada vez nos acercamos más a la versión final de KODI 16 Jarvis. En esta RC1 es una version considerada estable y muy cercana a la versión final que seguro vemos en breve. Obviamente esta versión incluye grandes mejoras para Android a nivel de codecs y reproducción en resoluciones 4K.
- Está disponible KODI 16 RC1 para descargar en versiones para procesadores ARM como x86.
Cambios más destacables
- 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 featured 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
