Download Kodi 16.0 Beta 5

The fifth and, according to the developers, the last beta release of Kodi version 16.0 has been released. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. In version 16.0, among other things, the switch from DirectX 9 to 11 is made, support for 4:3 Non-linear Stretch has been added so that old TV series are also properly displayed and settings of the appearance of Kodi are now saved separately and no longer along with other system settings. Furthermore, functions can now also be assigned to remotes when a button is long-pressed and improvements have been made to the add-on manager. The changelog for beta 5 can be found below.

Kodi 16.0 beta 5 – Last Jarvis beta

With this announcement we are releasing the last beta in the Jarvis line before we are switching to Release Candidates. We hope the feedback from users regarding this beta is positive since we as team can’t test all use cases ourselves. As such we wan’t to thank all the users who helped us find the biggest blockers before we can move towards the Release Candidates.

Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it now only has several which gives a better overview. The advantage of that is possible regressions get picked up way faster and that you as user also get the benefit of not having to wait a long time to get these fixes.

This Release Early Release Often (RERO) is what we as a team have decided to go forward with as we see the benefits of this approach. Our developers don’t have to wait a very long time before their features get included in a release and you a user will also get to try them out without having to wait many months. Enough about the RERO approach as we’ll soon devote a special review about this.

This we only have a small list of fixes that made it into this last beta.

Fixes done in this beta 5:

• Improved: better remote keymap for longpress functionality
• Fixed: correctly save skin setting when changing profiles
• Fixed: prefer forced subtitle in settings was not working
• Fixed: prevent crash on scanning certain mp3 files
• Fixed: correct numeric input in some PVR windows
• Fixed: better handling of some rotated recorded video files
• Fixed: fixed non working deinterlacer for DXVA on Windows
• Fixed: certain animated GIF files wouldn’t display correctly
• Fixed: a variety of code fixes that are too technical to mention