As you may know, Kodi (previously named XBMC) is a famous open source media hub and home theater PC, being translated in more than 30 languages. Also, its features can be highly extended via third party plugins and extensions and has support for PVR (personal video recorder).
The final version of Kodi 15.1 “Isengard” has been finally released, along the Android version of the software.
Main features of Kodi 15.1:
- Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
- Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
- Fix stuttering in PVR windows
- Fix holding lock while querying PVR backend
- Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS 5.1 devices
- Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
- Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
- Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
- Update label color for sliderex controls
- CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
- Fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
- FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
- Handle startup splash as regular window
- Fix linkage for VTB framework for iOS < 6 – fixes VTB on iOS
- Fix broken native keyboard on iOS 5.1.1 devices
- Fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
- Make some virtual filesystems available when no network is available yet
- Fix formatting on mysql queries that could cause crash on update
- Only set mouse wheel control spin and slider controls when they are actually focusses
- Respect view mode changes of EPG when controlling number of EPG updates
- Handle startup splash as regular window which prevent problems if PVR or masterlock is used as startup window
- Fix watched flag not displaying if item is also resume-able
- Remove some logging on exiting that could crash on exit in some cases
- Fix overlapping subtitles in some cases
For more information about this release, see the official announcement.
Installation instructions:
The latest versions of Kodi available are available via PPA, so installing it on Ubuntu systems is a piece of cake. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the kodi package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kodi
Also, to install the encode addon, do:
$ sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
Optional, to remove kodi, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove kodi*
The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.