KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 2, disponible para descargar e instalar

Ya tenemos lista para descargar e instalar la nueva versión oficial de Kodi 20 “Nexus” Alpha2. Una actualización que sigue evolucionando este software hacia su versión final, dentro de unos meses ya será estable.

Los cambios realizados en Kodi v20 Nexus a nivel estético como podemos apreciar son pocos y parece una versión bastante continuista en este aspecto. Internamente, tenemos más información sobre los cambios realizados en la lista de cambios oficial publicada. En todo caso tenemos versiones disponibles para Windows en compilaciones 32 y 64bit además de las compilaciones para Android en formato ARM V7A de mayor compatibilidad y ARM V8A para Shield TV o similares.

• OJO ALGUNOS ADD-ONS DEJAN DE FUNCIONAR CON ESTA VERSIÓN, puede usar la anterior KODI 18.9.

Descarga KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 2

• Descarga instalador Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 para Windows 64 bit, recomendada para cualquier PC.
• Descarga instalador Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 para Windows 32 bit, dispositivos muy antiguos.
• Descarga apk para Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 para Android 32 bit ARM V7A compatible en todos los TV-Box.
• Descarga apk para Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 para Android 64 bit ARM V8A solo SoC’s de NVidia, Realtek y algunos Rockchip.
• NOTA DESCARGA: hay navegadores que bloquean la descarga de EXE y APK, utilizar botón derecho “Guardar enlace como“, luego en la ficha de descarga abajo pulsar en la flechita arriba al lado de “Descartar” y seleccionar GUARDAR.

Lista de cambios

Platform Specific

• Android
  • Fix a stutter when the Kodi Android app was opened, closed and opened again. One of our team members (@thexai) noticed an issue with a recent PR that caused media stuttering to occur only after the app was opened and closed and reopened again without a force close. @ksooo has come up with a fix, so hopefully playback should be a better experience over Alpha 1.
  • Another TrueHD fix – buffers reduced to a specific level to optimise data throughput – Android: Adjust buffer size/duration for TrueHD IEC.
  • More local app icons should render fully in Kodi – Android: CFileAndroidApp::ReadIcon: Add support for icons provided a….
  • Fix a packaging error for binary python modules (pycryptodome) – Android: packaging: don’t delete cryptodome libraries from depends i….
• XBox
  • Fixes some specific H.265 video crashes – XBox: DXVA2: Allows the use of more than 16 decoding surfaces for H265 Full HD or less.

Python

• Android and Apple systems have had their Python version bumped to 3.9.13 in accordance with the latest release of the CPython 3.9 series. Of note, there have been fixes by the CPython team specifically for issues raised by Kodi community members around some crashes. Thanks to those members raising the upstream issues, and the fantastic CPython team for fixing them.Please note, this does not affect any of our Windows releases, or if you are using Linux.

Filesystems

• Fix a regression that caused thumbnails to not appear when accessed from “remote” filesystems (e.g. WebDAV) – fixed: URIUtils::IsInternetStream() didn’t properly handle filesystem….

Closed Captions

• Fix an instance of Closed Captions not working. A forum member was able to provide an extremely helpful sample that allowed @enen92 to track down an issue with closed captions not working correctly. Incidentally, this also fixes Closed Captions for some Inputstream.Adaptive streams as confirmed by @CastagnaIT.

Subtitles

• Multiple WebVTT fixes
  • Subtitles: WebVTT: Fix X-TIMESTAMP-MAP LOCAL parsing.
  • Subtitles: WebVTT: Clear all overlays just before creating a new parser.
  • Subtitles: WevVTT: Sync cue timestamps with period start.

Bluray

• Fix BluRay resume issues – Discs: Fix resume of Blurays and BluRay ISOs (state serializer).

Thumbnail Images

• Reduce “quality” of thumbnail creation – FFmpegImage: Reduce quality a tiny bitNOTE: An advanced setting is available for those users who wish to alter the default further. More information can be found on the wiki.

Skinning

• A couple of skinning changes have been introduced. gui: info: Add VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants and gui: info: Add Addon.Setting* infos.
• Skin timers – skinning: Skin timer implementation.
• Removal of player.DisplayAfterSeek – gui: info: Remove Player.DisplayAfterSeek.
• Skip border infill – Adds GUI hint for skins to skip border infill.
• Moving speed – gui: Implemented movingspeed to mover/resize controls.
• Diffuse fading animations – Added diffuse fading animation effect .
• VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants – gui: info: Add VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants.