Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Install Kodi 17 on Ubuntu 16.04. Kodi v17 “Krypton” brings an update to FFmpeg 3.0 which brings improved playback, stability and security fixes. It also features Android HD Audio and more such as Add-on manager changes and features.
Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 Changes
- 10bit/HEVC hardware enabled playback on INtel or NVIDIA GPU that have the capabilities (see hardware specs)
- Refactor of scrapers
- Fix possible high CPU usage with GUI rendering
- Playback improvement on all platforms
- Support for multiple external ratings and userrating from GUI and smartplaylists
- Audio and subtitle filter added to smartplaylists
- Use ffmpeg for loading certain types of images and drop external libraries
- Added PVR to eventlog feature
- Various database optimisations
- Unify behaviour of context menu
- Improvements on binary add-on handling
- Rework of rendercapture which is used by boblight or ambilight implementations
- Removes SAP streams support
- Added MVC, framepack and 3D switching support on Raspberri-Pi
- Change certain settings from spinners to a list
- Further improvements on DirectX implementation
- Further unify certain skin windows to make it easier to make new skins without duplicating same code
- Music mood scanning
- Game controller add-ons
- Improved tag reading from music files
- Improvement on Kodi rendering system which should reduce CPU load and pave the way to headless some day
- Add InProgress node for TV Shows
- Fix CPU count on Android
- Various changes to Kodi python API. Please check documentation
- Save skin settings on early exit which should fix problems with loosing settings after restart
- Improved binary add-on API
- Improvements to internal webserver
- Use number separators from the selected GUI language (example 1.000,4 / 1,000.4) and also apply this to ratings
- Update to FFmpeg 3.0 which brings improved playback, stability and security fixes
- Security and stability improvement by updating to: Python 2.7.12 / mDNSResponder to 625.41.2 / libxslt 1.1.29 / libmicrohttpd to 0.9.50 / gettext 0.19.8 / libzip 1.1.2 / libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 / libpng 1.6.21 / lzo 2.09 / sqlite 3120200 / openssl 1.0.2h / taglib 1.11
- Enable IPv6 for CURL
- Added CMake building on all platforms. Still work in progress
- Switch to Visual Studio 2015 building
- Remove boost, CXimage, jpgIO, libsquish dependencies as they are obsolete
- Auto create code documentation with Doxygen including a to-do list (link: https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/)
- Moved old PyDocs of the Kodi API to Doxygen
- Added skinning API to Doxygen
- Removed dead and obsolete core code
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed possible code deadlocks
- Fixed possible security flaws
- Fixed possible crashes
- Fixed code flaws found by various analyses tools
Other Changes that have been included in Kodi:
- DVDplayer was very interwoven with other components, that only allowed a single instance of it. One important goal of VideoPlayer is to allow multiple instances, i.e. using VideoPlayer infrastructure for transcoding. Instead of rendering to audio device and display, it would render to an encoder which could be a file or outputted as stream to another Kodi instance. Don’t get your hopes up yet as this just makes it possible but not yet available.
- Rework of videorendering, including many fixes and minor improvements for all platforms. OpenGL got new features like dithering (reduces banding when transforming from limited to full range colour space) and first round of 3dlut (look up tables stored in OpenGL units for fast access used for colour profile calibration) which has been added for next months.
- Almost complete rewrite of audio/video syncing and make it more robust and accurate
- Hardware acceleration for DVD playback
- VideoPlayer can switch resolution without any noticeable effect. (provided decoder support it)
- Multi source demuxers of i.e. external audio files
- Improve playback of live streams: PVR and streams that can be identified as live. Live streams won’t fill internal buffers after playback was started. Sooner or laters buffers will overflow or stream stalls if no special treatment is applied.
Install Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 on Ubuntu
Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives by running the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
Ubuntu users can also install the encode addon for Kodi 17.
sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
Once installed, open Kodi from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
If you wish to uninstall an remove Kodi 17, run the command given below:
Remove Kodi v17
sudo apt-get remove kodi*