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Kodi 19 Released With Python 3 Transition Complete, AV1 Software Decode [phoronix.com]

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 [phoronix.com] is now supported, integer scaling is supported [phoronix.com] for those playing game emulators within Kodi, various theme/skin improvements, metadata scraper improvements, and new security improvements.

Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" - Release [kodi.tv]

Because of many changes across supported platforms, the LibreELEC [wikipedia.org] team is planning an initial release [libreelec.tv] of LibreELEC 10.0 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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