#KODI MATRIX UPDATE#
#KODI MATRIX SKIN#
#KODI MATRIX SOFTWARE#
#KODI MATRIX BLUETOOTH#
#KODI MATRIX PLUS#

#KODI MATRIX UPDATE#

Much of the community has come with us, so, hopefully, your favourite addons will still function, but we're at the mercy of third-party contributors to update their work. Because the old Python 2.7 has gone out of support, we've finally made the wholesale move to Python 3 and ported our addons across. Python comes in for some major changes in Kodi 19.

#KODI MATRIX PLUS#

Some changes may be subtle, but all are designed to improve your experience.Īn often-overlooked feature, but immensely useful to so many people, subtitles get some attention in this release: timestamp overlays get fixed, plus you can now select a dark grey colour and set an opacity for the captions (particularly useful in HDR - protect your eyes, kids, you'll miss them when they're gone). As such, it's always getting some attention, and this release is no different: screen redesign, especially for music new metadata displays changes to playlist views a new 'now playing' view artwork and image file improvements both new and updated GUI controls.

#KODI MATRIX BLUETOOTH#

NFO files that list all performers instead of just the main artist, plus better search links to return related albums and videos by the same director director.Īnd, finally, if your definition of 'play' is more game-related, we've implemented integer scaling to improve the viewing quality of Pixel Art games across the board, while iOS get support for Xbox, PlayStation and other supported Bluetooth game controllers.įor many people, the interface is Kodi - it's how you find your way around, it's how you interact with the application and your media. There are also new features around grouping videos by artist (not just album), support for.

#KODI MATRIX SOFTWARE#

There's a new, Matrix-inspired visualisation, there are improvements to display when fetching files from a web server, and several changes to how audio decoder addons can pass information through to the Kodi player.įor video, most of the changes are more technical, and may depend on your hardware: AV1 software decoding, HLG HDR and static HDR10 playback on Windows 10, static HDR10 and dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support on Android, and more OpenGL bicubic scalers.įor those who combine the two, and have libraries of music videos, you get some goodies as well: database and metadata display improvements mean that Kodi will now fetch and display related album and artist information from the music library, where appropriate. hold on, it's a long list! Kodi 19 'Matrix' Featuresįor audio and music lovers, there are significant improvements across the board to metadata handling: library improvements, new tags, new displays, improvements to how Kodi handles release dates, album durations, multi-disc sets, and more. If you've been following the release cycle, you'll have seen these already, but for people who only take final releases. Kodi is a community, and, without all of you, we would all lose something.

#KODI MATRIX SKIN#

Whether you submitted a few lines of code or a major new feature whether you worked on video, audio, gaming, or a skin whether you tested in pre-release and helped identify a problem, debugged an issue or updated a translation whether you fixed some documentation, looked after the various systems that keep running, or helped to moderate the forum - thank you, one and all. The broad list of new features is below, but - before we get to that - I'd just like to take a moment to say 'thank you' to the huge amounts of work put in by the broadest team behind this release. and, of course,very little travelling, obviously - that's not good at the moment!

Countless hours of dedicated free time conceiving, designing, developing and testing (including all the infrastructure you see around them, including this web site).

Over 5,500 changed files, with some 600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed.

About 5,000 commits in over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x 'Leia'.Nearly 50 individual open source developers contributed code.Dare you take the red pill, and find out how deep the rabbit-hole goes?īy the numbers, then, this version is the product of:

yes, it's here! After several iterations of alpha, beta and RC, Team Kodi is pleased to announce that Kodi 19.0 'Matrix' has just been formally released on all supported platforms.

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