Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 1 - O que muda?

Logo após o lançamento final da série 18.x "Leia" , O Kodi apresentou o que vem aí, o Kodi 19.x "Matrix" na versão de pre lançamento Alpha 1.

Este é um grande lançamento e vem com muitos recursos novos. No entanto, isso inevitavelmente causará alguns problemas e por isso é ainda um modelo Alpha / Beta / Release Candidate.

Portanto, caso queiras experimentar tens que estar ciente de que a instalação do novo Kodi pode fazer com que alguns add-on que tenhas não funcionem correctamente.

O que realmente mudou?

Audio/Music

• Improved handling of multi-disc CD sets and box sets

• Additional metadata tags

• Improved handling of album release dates

• New setting to open music fullscreen/visualisation window automatically when playback is started

• A new, Matrix-inspired music visualisation is now available to install - great care has been put into making this perform well on lower-end systems

Video

• Software decoding of the AV1 CODEC

Subtitles

• Subtitle opacity can now be changed

• New dark grey colour for subtitles

Estuary Skin

• Redesign of the music fullscreen/visualisation window to match other fullscreen windows - allows fanart and visualisations to be shown without coloured overlays

• Additional media info flags added to music fullscreen/visualisation window info display

• The default Playlist view now uses the Widelist view format with options on the sideblade menu as in other areas of the skin

• A new "Now Playing" view added for music playback, showing media details for both any selected song in the playlist and those for any currently playing song

Games

• iOS now supports game controllers (Xbox/PlayStation/other supported Bluetooth controllers)

Platform Specifics

• Darwin (Apple) platforms:

• Objective-C code migrated from manual memory management to ARC

• iOS:

• Added showing total/free space

• Kodi log can now be shared using native sharing sheet

• Kodi GUI is no longer obscured on devices with notch

• macOS:

• Blank Other Displays setting no longer requires app restart

• "Toggle fullscreen" now uses default macOS shortcut

• Android:

• Static HDR10 support for all source types (if supported by the device)

• Dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support for streaming services (if supported by the device)

• Windows:

• Static HDR10 support for all source types (if supported by the GPU)

Information Providers (scrapers)

• New python scrapers for music - available in repo as Generic Album Scraper and Generic Artist Scraper

• New python scrapers for TV &; movies - available in repo as The Movie Database Python and The TVDB (new)

PVR

• PVR reminders

• TV and radio channel groups and Estuary home screen widgets

• Group manager usability enhancements

• Channel manager usability enhancements

• Guide window navigation controls

• Estuary PVR information dialog enhancements

• Setting 'Switch to full screen' now supports channel types

• Playlist context menu items for recordings

• Dynamic PVR categories for Estuary home screen

• Ability to sort channels and EPG by the backend order of channels

• Support group specific channel numbering and option to start group number locally from 1

• Support for starting EPG entries as live

• Support displaying recording sizes and being able to sort by them

• New, Live, Finale and Premiere for EPG, recordings and timers

• Guide window performance improvements

• Search window performance improvements

• EPG performance and memory usage optimisations

• C++ API for PVR Addon development

Network

• Improved information around the security implications of enabling external interfaces

• Added default-on switch to require a password for the web interface

Addons

• Probably the biggest change: with this release, we move to Python 3 for addons (see note below).

• Kodi will now enforce the origin of installed addons and their dependencies. This has been implemented to prevent third party repositories from overwriting code of unrelated add-ons, which was the cause of numerous error reports in the past.

Fonte: Kodi

Resumindo...

Devido à descontinuação do Python 2, Kodi agora utiliza o Python 3 para addons. Por causa dessa mudança, esta actualização pode desabilitar complementos onde uma versão compatível não está disponível, embora eles sejam reactivados assim que seus criadores forneçam novas versões.

Esta é talvez a grande novidade.

Há aqui também uma data de novidades no PVR com a adição de novas funcionalidades muito interessantes.

A nível de aspecto temos a nova imagem Matrix no inicio mas é muito parecido à versão anterior, não há grandes modificações.

Já podes obter o Alfa 1 aqui. Mas voltamos a avisar que estamos numa versão "muito beta". Não é estável e podes ainda ter problemas.

Nós por aqui já estamos a experimentar...