The Kodi 15.2 final release was on the 19th..
Over time the Android version has travelled some bumpy roads. This is due to the fact there are tens of thousands of different devices out there with each it’s own Android version and each a slightly different firmware and hardware. Firmware is the part where the manufacturer of the device has to make sure the everything works as it should like audio and video output. This time after the 15.0 release it became clear that for several devices using an Amlogic chipset there was a change in firmware that caused Kodi to not function properly and only show a zoomed in or only used part of the screen. Devices that came from manufacturers that had properly updated their firmware did not have this problem. However for some this never happened and caused all the problems you might have experienced. One method was to put special build firmware on the device which fixes the problem and Kodi would just work fine again. Sadly this is a quite technical process and could brick your device if not done properly. Luckily a community developer invested a lot of time in tracking down the problem and together with our main Android developer came to a solution for fixing this.
In short, we’ve solved the problems for the users that had the zoomed in or partial screen using Kodi in Android. As such we included these changes into the 15.2 build for every one to test and hopefully get their device working again.
Secondly some playback problem popped up for many Android users where they lost video after fast-forward playback. This should now have been correct as well.
Fixes done in this 15.2 version
• Fix non DVB subtitles
• Fix incompatible MySQL queries
• Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
• Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
• Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
• Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API
• Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
• Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
• Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
• Fix MicroDVD subtitles
• Fix subtitles positioning below video
• Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
• Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP
• Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
• Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
• Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
• Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
• Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
• Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
• Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
• Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
• Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
• Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
• Fix fallback for nb_no language
• Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
• Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view
The complete technical list can be found on our Github milestones.
Improvements so far in version 15
More in depth information can be found through the following links about the 15 release.
Over time the Android version has travelled some bumpy roads. This is due to the fact there are tens of thousands of different devices out there with each it’s own Android version and each a slightly different firmware and hardware. Firmware is the part where the manufacturer of the device has to make sure the everything works as it should like audio and video output. This time after the 15.0 release it became clear that for several devices using an Amlogic chipset there was a change in firmware that caused Kodi to not function properly and only show a zoomed in or only used part of the screen. Devices that came from manufacturers that had properly updated their firmware did not have this problem. However for some this never happened and caused all the problems you might have experienced. One method was to put special build firmware on the device which fixes the problem and Kodi would just work fine again. Sadly this is a quite technical process and could brick your device if not done properly. Luckily a community developer invested a lot of time in tracking down the problem and together with our main Android developer came to a solution for fixing this.
In short, we’ve solved the problems for the users that had the zoomed in or partial screen using Kodi in Android. As such we included these changes into the 15.2 build for every one to test and hopefully get their device working again.
Secondly some playback problem popped up for many Android users where they lost video after fast-forward playback. This should now have been correct as well.
Fixes done in this 15.2 version
• Fix non DVB subtitles
• Fix incompatible MySQL queries
• Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
• Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
• Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
• Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API
• Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
• Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
• Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
• Fix MicroDVD subtitles
• Fix subtitles positioning below video
• Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
• Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP
• Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
• Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
• Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
• Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
• Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
• Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
• Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
• Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
• Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
• Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
• Fix fallback for nb_no language
• Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
• Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view
The complete technical list can be found on our Github milestones.
Improvements so far in version 15
More in depth information can be found through the following links about the 15 release.
