Download Kodi 15.0 Beta 2

The second beta release of Kodi version 15.0 has come out. Formerly marketed as XBMC, Kodi is cross-platform media center software developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and the Raspberry Pi. New in version 15.0, which has been codenamed Isengard, includes adaptive seeking, which means that audio and video files can be jumped with larger or smaller steps. In addition, there is support for hevc h265 under Android on certain chipsets and the code is moving to C++11. However, this does result in an increase in the minimum specifications. For example, at least OS X 10.7, iOS 5.1 or Android 4.2 is required for version 15. Detailed information about the changes in this release can be found at this page are being found. These are in short the improvements since beta 1:

Improvements in 15.0 beta 2 since the release of beta 1

• Bump libCEC to 3.3.0 which fixes a variety of problems
• Reworked the storage provider on Android. This fixes several problems with mounting points for storage.
• Fix the queuing of music videos
• Improvement to FF/RW or videos
• Improvement to picons in livetv
• Prevention of clipping of rotated text, which happened in certain skins
• Improved logic to make PVR, audio encoders and audio decoders optional.
• Audio decoder and PVR add-ons are now disabled by default. When you want to use these you need to enable them manually.
• Fix launching of add-ons from the add-on information dialog
• Show progress for add-on repository update
• Properly fall back to the new language files location
• Fix of grouping movie sets when navigating in smartplaylists
• Fix wrong icon showing in popup dialogs
• Restore volume after pass-through on Android
• Combine previously split GUI text into a single string. This improves ability to properly translate them.
• Included newer version of several PVR add-ons
• Fix incorrect fall-back language after we made them into add-ons
• Fix 8channel audio conversion on Windows
• Try to detect supported sample rates on Android
• Do a complete video database clean-up session to remove leading/trailing spaces and invalid characters
• Prevent inserting leading/trailing spaces and invalid characters on new video scans
• Add season and episode labels to PVR section
• Fix possible font corruption
• Remove default 250ms audio delay on Android for AMLogic chipsets
• Fix subtitles showing on top of each other in certain cases