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Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" Released

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 22 2021, @03:49AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Kodi 19 Released With Python 3 Transition Complete, AV1 Software Decode

Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" is now available for this popular open-source, cross-platform [home theater PC] solution.

Kodi 19.0 is represented by nearly five thousand commits since Kodi 18 and represents some big changes like finishing off the migration from Python 2 to Python 3. Kodi 19.0 also has many audio/video playback related improvements, AV1 software decoding is now supported, integer scaling is supported for those playing game emulators within Kodi, various theme/skin improvements, metadata scraper improvements, and new security improvements.

Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" - Release

Because of many changes across supported platforms, the LibreELEC team is planning an initial release of LibreELEC 10.0 (based on Kodi 19) with stable support for x86, beta support for Rockchip/Allwinner ARM, and alpha support for the Raspberry Pi 4. Raspberry Pi 2/3 support will be added in LibreELEC 10.2, and support for Raspberry Pi 0/1 will be dropped.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @02:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @02:39PM (#1115987)

    So I guess a tabbed interface is verboten.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @06:09PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @06:09PM (#1116076)

    Why would this be? Just because it is single threaded?

    There are work-arounds that allow multiple threads to be active at the same time (they just have to be spun up as separate processes, kicking that handling out to the OS). The only thing that you can't do is have multiple threads simultaneously access the same data in memory, which doesn't really seem like something you'd need that much in a media platform.

    Not sure if they went through the work I described above just so your ears can be assaulted by the sound of multiple videos playing at once, but they could have.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @07:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @07:31PM (#1116102)
      Whoosh. I guess you missed the Python TAB vs SPACES wars. They’re ongoing, so you’re not too late. And you don’t need an informed opinion, just an opinion.