You can now officially download Kodi 16 from the official Kodi website! This officially means that Kodi 16 is released and can be installed on any Kodi setup without worry for beta bugs or issues. Read out Kodi 16 guide below on all of the new features included.
Version 16 of Kodi improves on a ton of features including improved audio and video playback, updated codecs, new skin settings, and tons of other improvements!
Read the list of improvements below and then download Kodi 16 release candidate by clicking here.
Also, let us know on Twitter what you think after you download Kodi 16 and play around with it!
Kodi 16 Guide Features
Version 16 of Kodi improves on a ton of features including improved audio and video playback, updated codecs, new skin settings, and tons of other improvements!
Read the list of improvements below and then download Kodi 16 release candidate by clicking here.
Also, let us know on Twitter what you think after you download Kodi 16 and play around with it!
Kodi 16 Guide Features
- Implement the more future proof DirectX11 for Windows which still works for DirectX9 video cards;
- Event logging which among others shows which video files didn’t got added to your library;
- Skin settings are now stored as separate files like any other add-on which makes migrating settings a lot easier;
- Image resource add-ons which provide a single point of entry for skins to share common used images like movie studio icons and record labels which saves quite a lot of space and bandwidth;
- Audio DSP (Digital Signal Processing) add-on integration and are already included which could make things possible like equalizers, sound processing, fake surround and more
- PVR/DVR section has been extended and improved massively which now also handles series recording
- Music library improvements which includes asking to scan to library when adding locations and also better tag scanning
- Button long-press which extends the functionality of a single button to handle two functions which is great for button deprived remotes
- Android now support a Surface Rendering which keeps the interface at normal HD resolution while allows playback of 4K on supported devices
- Removal of the infamous libstagefright on Android which served us for the past years while the Android platform matured to a fully fetaured MediaCodec
- Add-on manager underwent heavy changes which includes slightly different structure, per add-on auto-update on/off switch, better update/rollback support to choose from repos,
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