The Kodi Development Team announced today, the availability of the final versions of Kodi 17 “Krypton” an open-source media center for Windows, Linux, Android, macOS and iOS.
The final version of Kodi 17 “Krypton” is a major release with many improvements in many of the components of, as in: PVR, VideoPlayer, and Music Library. It comes with better organization in settings, better audio support for Android, as well as an updated user interface (UI) with a new theme preset called Estuary.
"The new Estuary theme default is specially designed as a 10-foot UI, while touch screens have a new touch feature called Estouchy. The new Chorus2 is also available as the default web interface to complete the redesign, ”Kodi developers said in the announcement.
In the prominent characteristics of Kodi 17 “Krypton” we can mention tag scraping support, performance improvements, better management of huge libraries while browsing, better video and audio synchronization, activation of video decoding and encoding for all supported platforms, as well as refresh rate switching.
It comes with new inputstream extensions that have been added and include several new SmoothStream, Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), NXMSL, and MPEG-DASH features. For color conversion, there is OpenGL support and hardware-accelerated DVD playback.
Kodi 17 is now compatible with Android Audio API, which means you should run at least Android 5.0 on your device.
Read more at Kodi 17 changelog
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