Download Kodi 14.0 Beta 3

The development of Kodi is in full swing and the third beta release has now been released. Kodi is the new name for XBMC Media Center and this cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV and the Raspberry Pi. Version 14.0, codenamed Helix, contains no major changes, but is referred to as a stability release by the developers. New is, among other things, a newer version of ffmpeg, which now also makes it possible to play h.265 files. The changelog since beta 1 can be found below.

Changes in Kodi 14.0 beta 3

• fix incorrect display of fps when dr kicks in
• [ResamplePi] Add support for formats that need shifting
• [pvr] add missing call to parent’s OnPrepareFileItems()
• fix queuing of songs starting playback if something is already playing
• [darwin] – fix flicker in sysinfo – querying gateway via pipe needs a sleep
• [epg] rename GetCurrentTime() to avoid naming collision with Windows-specific macro
• [cosmetics] minor spacing in readme
• [release] bump to 14.0 beta3
• show correct dialog header text for master lock code. fixes #15543
• AESinkPULSE: Rebrand pulseaudio sink name to reflect kodi
• AE: always request float from sink when in fixed mode, fixes unwanted re…
• videorefclock: use videosync DRM on AMD systems
• [pvr] bump addons
• dvd player: fix rewind
• [buttontranslator] fix keymap overrides not working
• Coverity: Fixes 2
• dvdplayer: vaapi, vdpau – implement codec control flags
• dvd player: fix dts correction, again
• osx: fixed detect of latest sdk after yosemite
• dvdplayer: fix app exit caused by creating teletext while thread is running…
• Handle BlueZ 5.x play/pause evdev scan codes
• dvdplayer: video codec ffmpeg – fix timestamps and colorspace
• dvdplayer: avoid short screen flicker caused by unnecessary reconfigure …
• [rtmp] fix crash on seek on live streams
• [vtb] – fix – use the correct bit for signaling the hw decoder to drop a…

Changes in Kodi 14.0 beta 2

• [logging] stop log spam introduced with ba34a62
• [infomanager] only call UpdateAVInfo when really needed
• ffmpeg: bump to version 2.4.3
• fix CApplicationMessenger::SendText() not sending the text to the proper edit control
• fix segfault when calling StopScript builtin with no parameters
• Added Ukrainian keyboards
• fixed: cur_dts returned by ffmpeg is invalid most of the time so relay o…
• Fix SMB files reading on POSIX platforms
• [jenkins] – fix wrong branch names at times
• [Docs] fixup urls to kodi.tv
• [UPnP] rebrand our Media Server/Renderer
• [NfoFile] fix empty video details for multipart episodes
• [CONFLUENCE] removed redundant value conditions from variables
• Honor “ignorethewhensorting” when jumping to letter
• use correct app name in the linux desktop file (fixes #15524)
• [videodb] Fix deleting bookmarks from dialog for plugins.
• [videodb]: keep empty series if hideemptyseries=true
• [release] bump to 14.0 beta2
• [rebrand] change default web server username from “xbmc” to “kodi”
• dvdplayer: exclude blurays from fast anylyzinh mpegts streams
• [CEC] Added support for CEC buttons introduced by HDMI 1.4
• [AE] Allow resampler to indicate when it has too much data buffered
• [omxplayer] Remove unused function
• Change APP_HOME -> KODI_HOME and other APP_* -> KODI_*
• FIX: [droid] allow to build without debugging and pickup jenkins configuration