The XBMC Foundation has released the first b lwa ta of XBMC successor Kodi released. The open-source mediaspelersoftware, which changes its name, offers among other things support for the playback of h265 videos, all this happens without hardware acceleration.
Kodi 14.0, which is codenamed Helix has been given, contains ffmpeg 2.4. With this open-source video library, is it possible to have video with the h265 codec is compressed to play. The format is designed to output 4k videos to compress, and it promises to be a twice more efficient compression than h264. Ffmpeg does not yet support hardware acceleration for the playback of h265 videos. The XBMC Foundation warns that there is a strong cpu is needed, and that many Android devices lack the processing power for such rekenklussen.
The Kodi-release would also have to build and scan of a library quite a speed up, while also the compatibility with the upnp protocol would be improved. So we can now, for example, also artwork can be exchanged between Kodi clients and servers and is there a search function is available.
In the manage add-ons, it is now possible to have automatic updates to block update notifications to turn off. Also, there are now virtual keyboards with other layouts than the traditional qwerty layout.
On Android would Kodi more chipsets support, including hardware-based 4k gear for the AMLogic s802 chipset and support for the Freescale i.MX6-soc. For iOS users has AirPlay again to work after the upgrade to iOS 7 for problems caused in XBMC. On the Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms are several audiobugs crushed, while in Windows also the dxva acceleration would be improved. The Foundation changed the name, because XBMC too would refer to the Microsoft console.
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