Kodi 21.0 “Omega” Open-Source Media Center Is Here with Major Changes
Coming more than a year after Kodi 20 “Nexus”, the Kodi 21.0 “Omega” release is here to introduce FFmpeg 6.0 support, NFSv4 support, support for reading and writing M3U8 playlists, AudioEngine improvements on Linux, and support for passthrough formats like DTS-HD and TrueHD on Linux./p>
Also for Linux, Kodi 21.0 adds support for libdisplay-info to help parse EDID information and determine display capabilities. Moreover, Linux users can now select the audio backend with a command line switch when starting Kodi, which lets you see with which enabled audio backends Kodi was built.
Linuxiac:
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Kodi 21.0 ‘Omega’ Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New
Fifteen months after its previous major 20 ‘Nexus’ release, Kodi, the popular free and open-source media player software, has officially released its 21.0 version, ‘Omega.’
This new version introduces many enhancements and features to improve the user experience across various platforms, including macOS, Windows, and Android.
Significant improvements have been made to Kodi’s GUI rendering engine, which now better supports HiDPI (retina) displays, ensuring crisper and more detailed visuals on high-resolution screens. macOS users, in particular, will benefit from enhanced support for fullscreen mode and improved display handling.
CNX Software:
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Kodi 21.0 Omega released with FFmpeg 6, LG webOS support, and more
Kodi 21.0 “Omega” has just been released with the latest version of the open-source media center adding 3,750 commits since the release of Kodi 20.0 “Nexus” on January 15th, 2023 that notably added AV1 hardware decoding in Android and x86.
The new Kodi 21.0 version updates FFmpeg to version 6, adds native support for LG webOS televisions after some reverse-engineering, and implements new features such as Dolby Vision on-the-fly profile conversion in Android, native windowing in macOS that does not rely on the SDL library, and an in-game player viewer to view which game port each player’s controller is currently connected to.
Linux Magazine:
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Kodi 21.0 Open-Source Entertainment Hub Released
Kodi 21.0 (Omega) is here and boy does it have that "fresh car smell."
Users will find quite a lot of improvements in this release, as well as new features that help make Kodi even more impressive.
You'll find newly minted support for FFmpeg 6.0, NFSv4, AVI image support, reading and writing M3UB playlsits, libdisplay-info, HDR10 for Xbox, DXVA2 AVI1 hardware 8/10-bit video decoding on Windows, Video Super Resolution (for NVIDIA RTX/Intel Arch), Windows 11 refresh rate switching, it's own implementation of the ping utility, support for .ttc fonts, and initial support for webOS 4 devices.
Ubuntu Handbook:
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Kodi 21 “Omega” Stable Officially Released! [How to Install]
After more than a year of development, Kodi media player 21, code-name “Omega”, is finally released! Kodi 21 is a new major release.
Original:
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Kodi 21.0 "Omega" - Release
It's time! We are very pleased to present the latest and greatest release of Kodi, v21.0 "Omega".
With this release we have seen over 3,750 commits since v20.0 "Nexus" was available to the world on January 15th, 2023. As always, this has been a huge effort from many contributors, testers and supporters. Thanks go out to our team members, plus everyone in our community who sent in a pull request, tested and gave feedback, or provided support to users on the forum. We always appreciate your contribution to making Kodi better.
Let's review some of the changes you can expect:
[...] A large majority of changes are "under the hood" and invisible to users but improve the stability, performance, and safety of Kodi: API changes have been made to evolve Python and binary add-ons and bring new skinning features; there are updates to Kodi dependencies on most if not all Kodi platforms; fixes from regular use of code static-analysis tools, database migration fixes for a smoother update ... and lots more.There are too many individual changes to detail everything. If you would like to know more, please look back through the Omega Alpha to RC2 release announcements and review the GitHub changelog here.
Time doesn't stand still, and we have already branched Kodi v22 "P*" for development. Thank you again for your continued support as we continue to make Kodi great!