Kodi 17 Beta 2 released with Android 7.0 Nougat Passthrough Audio API and other fixes. Install Kodi 17 media player on Ubuntu 16.04.
Kodi 17 Beta 2 Highlights
Kodi 17 Beta 2 media player has been released with various fixes, such as:
- Any game controller was non function due to recent refactoring. This has now been fixed with the added bonus of deadzone settings for joypads.
- PVR section got a variety of fixed ranging from usability to possible crashing
- Fix possible issue if internet stream used a redirect
- Fix “could not connect to repository” popup
- No longer handle data migrations from pre-Kodi v14 versions.
- Add fallback path to Kodi settings if the skin you use hasn’t received an update yet
- Several fixes done to passthrough audio handling
- Fix possible crash on loading context menu add-ons
- Add Android Nougat new passthrough audio API which special thanks to Google developers for adding this.
- De-interlacing setting underwent some changes recently and some problems came to light.
- Skin and add-on updating doesn’t check for dependencies if they are not in a repository. From now on on any upgrade
- Kodi we will go through all available updates and install them before starting Kodi.
- Fix DPI unawareness on Windows where it would start in the zoomed in if it wasn’t set to 100% Thanks to Microsoft for giving us the correct way of solving it.
Install Kodi 17 Beta 2
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Kodi 17 Beta 2 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
Once installed, open Kodi 17 Beta 2 from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
Remove Kodi 17 Beta 2
If you wish to uninstall and remove Kodi 17 Beta 2 from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get update