Kodi 20 Nexus è ufficiale: Download in anteprima

Disponibile la versione Alpha 1 di sviluppo di KODI 20 con nome in codice Nexus. Ecco dove scaricarla e provarla in anteprima

Da oggi puoi scaricare l’APK Android di Kodi 20 Nexus Alpha 1 insieme alle versioni disponibili per iOS, Windows e MAC. Il nuovo aggiornamento, ora disponibile per il download ufficialmente ed include un elenco piuttosto lungo di modifiche relative alla gestione dei video, ai sottotitoli, all’interfaccia e altro ancora.

Kodi 20, nome in codice, Nexus, è ora pronto per essere testato dal pubblico in una prima forma Alpha 1, quindi la primissima versione dedicata ad un pubblico competente. Ciò significa che chiunque ora può scaricare e utilizzare la nuova build di Kodi, probabilmente dovrebbe aspettarsi che ci siano problemi.

Kodi sta per arrivare alla sua 20.esima versione e passa dal nome in codice Matrix a Nexus che promette una serie novità importanti. Kodi 20 Nexus non sarà rivoluzionario ma aumenterà la velocità e il supporto per sempre più dispositivi in modo da diventare ancor di più il media center universale.

Kodi 20 porterà con se davvero tante novità, soprattutto sotto il cofano, con una velocità aumentata anche se non dovremmo vedere novità a livello grafico se non per qualche piccola ottimizzazione qua e la ed un ammodernamento del tema principale ma il lavoro sarà fatto a livello di programmazione.

Changelog Kodi 20 Nexus Alpha 1

Video

AV1 hardware decoding for Android
AV1 hardware decoding for Linux via VAAPI
Bump to FFMPEG 4.4

Sottotitoli

Add new font style settings such as border size/color, background type/color/opacity, shadow color/opacity, and blur
Add support to display subtitles with dynamic positions which make use of position tags
Add underlined and strikethrough text style support
Add a new wide color palette in color settings
Add a new setting to change text alignment for closed caption subtitles for a better reading
Add a new setting to override subtitles metadata like style and position
Improved font size that now match the point/pixel proportion
When Kodi is in windowed mode subtitles are now always displayed correctly
Improved VPlayer for better reading of the multiline text
Improved SAMI format to better support multiple languages
Improved TX3G format to support multiple styles, colors and alpha channel
ASS/SSA subtitles are displayed without flickering
Improved image-based subtitle rendering to keep a better aspect ratio
Add support to the WebVTT subtitle format type
Improved font list setting – the actual names of the fonts are now listed
Add support to OpenType font type (OTF)
Improved calibration window, so it’s now possible to also reset the calibration settings
Subtitle settings can now be changed while in playback without side effects

Dischi

Fix resume of Blu-Rays and DVD ISOs in file mode (not in library)
Fix playback of some optical discs on Linux due the incorrect mapping of mountpoints
On Linux optical media is now mounted by default (via udisks)
Partial code cleanup and platform split of disc drive handling
Skin cosmetics
Fix duplicated context menu items

EDL

Fix EDL mute sections and EDL cuts

Interfaccia grafica

Fix wrap lists
Fix hitrect on auto sized buttons
Fix some context menu options not triggering the respective builtin action
Independent volume setting for GUI sounds
Password reveal button in keyboard dialog

Input

Added Steam Deck built-in controller support

Skinning

Add a new Colour Picker window dialog to allow display a color list
Improved image control to support read dynamic $INFO data to “colordiffuse” tag
Improved Player Process Info window – new information has been added and grouped by context
New media flags for HDR videos: detect, store and process the type of HDR in a video file
Skinners can now define modal dialogs if its visibility depends on Boolean condition evaluation
Deprecation of old info labels with the introduction of new generic ones (e.g. Player.Editlist, Player.Cuts, etc)

Estuary/Estouchy

Estuary PVR Home Screen: New widget for timers (replacing old current/next recording widget)
Estuary PVR Home Screen: Add percentage played progress bars to Recent Channels and Recent Recordings widgets
Estuary PVR Home Screen: Change default click action to open the Guide window
Improve display of EDL markers on the default skin (EDL mutes are now shown, cut sections are also identified)

Giochi

Savestate manager for Retroplayer with captions describing the state of the game provided by https://retroachievements.org
In-game Port Setup dialog to change between game controllers

Modifiche dedicate alle piattaforme

UNIX Family Platforms
- Implement WS-Discovery (SMB discovery) for *ix platforms (Android/Linux/Apple)
iOS/TVOS
- Improved Siri Remote handling
- Improved “Now Playing” info
macOS
- Initial support for M1 native including native windowing/input handling PR NOTE: We do not provide prebuilt M1 dmg’s. Any devs willing to work on ironing out the many corner cases of the native windowing implementation, don’t hesitate to ping @fuzzard on the forums if you have any questions.
- Extend GameController support to OSX
- Many code cleanups/refinements/refactors
Android
- Update Android build to use Gradle for signing/aligning/packing
Linux
- Add ACES/Hable Tonemapping for GLES
- More BiCubic Shaders for GLES
- Pipewire support
Windows
- New setting to use 10 bit swapchain for SDR videos. Improves video quality and more precise colour conversions: YUV to RGB, limited to full range, shaders, etc. This is true even if video output is limited to 8 bit RGB by system or graphics driver.
- Improved DXVA2 (HW video decoding) performance by sharing decoding and rendering surfaces. Avoids video copy operations and drastically reduces video memory usage on NVIDIA and AMD graphics using recent drivers.

Supporto i8n

Harfbuzz rendering for scripts with open type font shaping features

PVR

Channels and Recordings can specify a provider
Read-only recordings supported
EPG Search: Add Saved Searches, incl. new Estuary PVR Home Screen widget
Channel Manager: Add possibility to refresh all channel logos
Settings: Add possibility to specify which data to delete when resetting PVR database
Automatic cleanup of cached PVR images (texture.db and cached image files)
Functional Improvements for multi PVR Add-on scenarios
Performance improvements, esp. for large number of channels

Build System/Dependencies

Most dependencies have been updated to latest, or close to, for Apple/Android platforms
Many cmake updates to update build system

Date/Time

Many many updates/changes to use std::chrono throughout the code base

Addons

Colour Picker
Colour button setting
Add support to add video HDR type info to a video list item
Function for removing orphaned dependencies recursively

Download Link Kodi 20 Nexus in anteprima

Per scaricare Kodi 20 Nexus nella versione di sviluppo Alpha 1, dovete accedere al link kodi.tv/download e cliccare sull’icona relativa al vostro sistema operativo. Poi selezionare dall’elenco dei file proposti la build di Kodi 20 in base al vostro dispositivo per Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, Raspberry, tvOS ed altri e selezionare la tab Prerelease.

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