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Kodi 21 ‘Omega’ now available for download and install on Apple TV 4K and IPhone, IPad

Kodi 21 Omega final release is updated for our tvOS and iOS users.

This is what’s new in Kodi 21 ‘Omega’:

Major Features

FFmpeg 6

Kodi relies significantly on FFmpeg to do a lot of heavy lifting for us. Many developers have contributed to upgrading the project to make use of the newer FFmpeg releases over the past 15 months, initially starting with targeting FFmpeg 5, but later updating to FFmpeg 6.

In-game Player Viewer

Controller configuration for games gets a little better in v21: a window has been added in-game to view which game port each player’s controller is currently connected to.

Behind the Scenes

A large majority of changes are “under the hood” and invisible to users but improve the stability, performance, and safety of Kodi: API changes have been made to evolve Python and binary add-ons and bring new skinning features; there are updates to Kodi dependencies on most if not all Kodi platforms; fixes from regular use of code static-analysis tools, database migration fixes for a smoother update… and lots more.

– Video Instructions about how to use our service:

How to install KODI on Apple TV 4K 4K

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Kodi 20.3 ‘Nexus’ now available for download and install on Apple TV 4K and IPhone

Kodi 20.3 has been pushed for our tvOS and iOS subscribers, it will be one of the last V20 versions before the arrival of KODI Omega which is progressing positively.

This new Kodi Nexus v20.3 offers bug fixes and improvements over the previous version.

Release notes highlights are:

Estuary

  • An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories’ focus position, alignment of counter labels and Shift view for collections.
  • Fixes to the weather layout when busy.

Game/Retroplayer

  • Fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android.
  • Fixed blue/pink washed out colours on Windows with 10-bit displays.
  • Fixed possible crash in Port dialogue box.
  • Fixed typo for the mouse middle button in Controller dialogue box.

General

  • A DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable.
  • A fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers.
  • A fix for a crash that occurred due to Addon settings being destructed in an incorrect order.
  • Redact some information from Toast notifications (user/passwords incorrectly being shown).
  • A memory leak in context menus was resolved.
  • Image cache handling was fixed to correctly regenerate when cached files for JSON API consumers.

Music

  • Music Library: now able to automatically recover if library cleaning was interrupted previously for some reason.

Platform Specific

  • tvOS
    • Fixed: Not persistent binary addons (PVR) settings.
    • macOS/iOS
      • Fix a crash on Apple Silicon based Macs when pressing the Caps Lock key.

Pictures

  • An exif parsing regression from v19 was resolved.

PVR

  • Fix TV channel subtitles not displayed on playback start, even when activated in subtitle settings.
  • Fix recordings with a path containing a colon (‘:’) not being displayed in recordings window.

UPNP

  • A fix for a crash that occurred when a user added a UPNP source without having UPNP enabled.
  • Playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) has been fixed.

Video

  • A fix to the default Select action on certain movie-related windows.

– Video Instructions about how to use our service:

How to install KODI on Apple TV 4K

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Kodi 20 ‘Nexus’ Stable Release now available for download and install for both iOS and tvOS

It’s Time! We are pleased to present the latest release of Kodi, v20 “Nexus”.

With over 4,600 commits since v19 “Matrix” was released on February 19th, 2021, this has been a huge effort. Thanks go out to our team members, and everyone in our community who sent a pull request, tested and gave feedback, or provided support to users on the forum. We appreciate your contribution to making Kodi better.

Let’s review some of the changes you can expect:

Major Features

Multiple Instances of Binary Add-ons

This allows Kodi to load multiple instances of a binary add-on. For example: TVHeadend users can now run more than one instance of the add-on to connect to multiple back-end TVHeadend servers, with individual settings like channel groups and hidden channels maintained per add-on instance. @AlwinEsch was the developer behind a lot of this, with support from @ksooo. Your favourite binary add-on may not support this capability yet, but we hope add-on developers introduce this into their projects soon.

AV1 Video Support

Several Kodi platforms now allow hardware decoding of AV1 media. The Inputstream API has been updated to support AV1 and this allows add-ons using inputsream.adaptive to play AV1 streams.

Subtitles Rework

Massive rework of the subtitle system was undertaken by @CastagnaIT making subtitle formats more consistent for development and maintenance, and enabling features that were previously not possible. Kodi now supports dynamic positioning of fonts, changing of border and background colours, subtitle positioning, improved multi-language support, and more. If you are a regular user of subtitles, jump on in and check it all out.

Game (libretro) Savestate Support

The GSOC 2020 project of @NikosSiak received some polishing touches before finally (!) being merged. With mentoring from @VelocityRa and @gusandrianos, and the assistance of @garbear, this has been a long time coming. This feature allows you to save game state at any time, even if games do not provide native savestate features themselves. Great for gamers, and times when you aren’t watching Videos with Kodi 😉

NFSv4 Support

Changes to allow NFSv4 support were implemented by @lrusak as previously we only supported NFSv3. There are some caveats with this (you must explicitly select either NFSv4 or NFSv3 for a source). Give it a try!

Context Menu Consistency

Improvements to right-click/long-press context menu handling were made by @ksooo in numerous areas. This makes the function of the context menu much more consistent over different windows, and enabled some new capabilities like the playback of albums directly from widgets, series resume, etc. to be added.

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Kodi 19.4 “Matrix” Final now available for download and install for both iOS and tvOS.

Today we have available for download and install the new version Kodi 19.4 “Matrix“ for Apple TV 4k and IPhone & IPad, the forth update of this controversial version that incorporates improvements and corrections.

Changelog

Estuary

Fix: Home screen context menu fix for when there are more than 10 items in menu.
Fix: Seekbar wouldn’t disappear after 5 sec when using remote app e.g. Kore or JSON to pause Kodi.

Input

Fix: English keyboard missing semi-colon.
Fix: Chinese keyboard character now displaying correctly.

Music

Fix: Artist discography export to NFO.

PVR

New: Sort method for recordings based on season and episode.
Fix: Crash when navigating an empty guide.
Fix: Hiding/deleting channel group now working correctly.

UI

Fix: Any Favourites for a restricted/locked media source are now hidden.
Fix: Blu-ray ISO title and watched status now displayed correctly.
Fix: Wrong language identified from subtitle name corrected.

Video

Fix: EDL mute now working.
Fix: ASS subtitles display now working correctly.