Kodi

Kodi (was XBMC) is an award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Note: To install Kodi on OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, you need to right-click the application after it has been installed and select "Open" from the list (this need only be done once). Alternatively, you can go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General. From there, unlock the lock at the bottom of the window and "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere." This second method is the preferred method, as you will no longer be bothered for future XBMC updates.

• Speed up Player and Playlists operations with JSON-RPC
• Define a senseful default value for advanced settings "updateemptytagsinterval"
• Revert edge case crash fix that caused DVDs to be not recognised on Mac OS
• Remove "dxvaallowhqscaling" advanced setting to prepare for DXVA improvements in v18.2 for Windows
• Linux X11: fix usage of required configuration values
• Add date to the log records
• Don't react on DPI change event on Win10 >= FCU
• Fix Android MediaCodec freeze on early disposal of a stream
• Flush streamplayers if abort is requested which solves waiting too long (on skipping DVD intros, for example)
• Fix ListitemAbsolute and ListItemPosition in GUI engine
• Ignore very first "server not reachable" notification for PVR servers
• Use extended result codes for SQLite
• Fix invalid PTS decoder value which should inprove MPEG2 playback on Android devices
• update SSL CA trust store
• Handle empty vertex buffers in GUIFontTTFGL which caused a hard crash
• Reintroduce setting "Close channel OSD after switching channels" for PVR
• Fix thread logging on Android which causes e.g. frozen DVD/Bluray playback
• Avoid attempt to load music info for smartplaylists
• Fix Top 100 Albums regression
• RenderCapture: Only query Occlusion if GL lower 1.5
• Check current mode if whitelist doesn't match and take correct action
• Check if app intent is valid on Android. This fixes a hard crash when trying to open Kodi again
• Fix PVR input stream creation for pvr file items only containing a path and no recording/channel tag.
• Fix playing VP9 streams using inputstream addon. It failed because codec extradata is non-existent for this stream codec.
• Catch an exception while reading or writing a file
• Fix logical "or" operation in GUI engine
• Check the system capabilities to support sleep states S1/S2/S3/S4 before reporting them as available
• Fix crash in PCSX ReARMed with BIOS
• Several Estuary cosmetic fixes