Android Surface Rendering
Some newer devices that can do UHD or 4K playback lack the power to also create the Kodi interface at a 4K resolution, and this creates a problem. We have been forced either to downscale the video to a lower resolution to make sure the interface was snappy, or show full size video but the device might not be able handle the high resolution interface. We’ve now altered the way we display Kodi on Android. The video is always displayed on one Android surface while the UI is displayed on a second Android surface. This allows Kodi to display its skin at its native resolution (typically 720p), while simultaneously displaying 4K video on the same screen.
It is important to mention is that this doesn’t apply to AMLogic devices with proper permissions as these will still use amcodec. Any other Android device that is not able to do “android surface rendering” has not implemented the standard Android MediaCodec API in the proper way and will need to be upgraded on the Android-side to support the new feature.
Other Important Changes:
Some newer devices that can do UHD or 4K playback lack the power to also create the Kodi interface at a 4K resolution, and this creates a problem. We have been forced either to downscale the video to a lower resolution to make sure the interface was snappy, or show full size video but the device might not be able handle the high resolution interface. We’ve now altered the way we display Kodi on Android. The video is always displayed on one Android surface while the UI is displayed on a second Android surface. This allows Kodi to display its skin at its native resolution (typically 720p), while simultaneously displaying 4K video on the same screen.
It is important to mention is that this doesn’t apply to AMLogic devices with proper permissions as these will still use amcodec. Any other Android device that is not able to do “android surface rendering” has not implemented the standard Android MediaCodec API in the proper way and will need to be upgraded on the Android-side to support the new feature.
Other Important Changes:
- • Start of integration of ADSP (Audio Digital Signal Processing) handling (no add-ons shipped yet)
- • Improve image resizing and caching algorithm to improve image quality of images
- • Added support for the musicbrainz “ARTISTS” tag in id3v2, ape, xiph.
- • Add date added to music library and use it for sorting
- • Support saving skin settings as add-on data instead of in guisettings.xml
- • Image resource add-ons which provides common image libraries than can be used by several skins and add-ons.
- • Don’t mess with the long and short date formats defined in the language files
- • Win32: Proper 24.0/60.0 Hz refresh rate in fake fullscreen mode
- • Add sort method for albums “artist / year”. This will sort the albums chronological per artist.
- • Moved some add-on categories to “look and feel” in add-on manager
- • Series recording added for PVR
- • Add a “none” option for preferred subtitles
- • Properly handle wired or bluetooth headsets on Android and only use PCM output
- • Fix playback of VP9 and VC1 video codecs on Android
- • Use best possible icons from other Android apps while browsing these in Kodi
- • Enable true 1920×1080 output on AMLogic device without up-scaling
- • Add Korean, Chinese and Czech keyboards
- • Add multi-touch support for Linux platform
- • Improve touch-screen keymapping
- • The item that you had previously chosen will now be selected in the selection list instead of just starting at the top of the list
- • Decouple Kodi and system volume on Android which removes the double audio volume slider
- • Karaoke support has been completely removed as it wasn’t functional
- • Further improve DX11 implementation in Windows
- • iOS9 support
- • Various PVR fixes and improvements
- • Various improvements to the music section
- • Three finger touchpad mapping in iOS to make room for new tablet gestures which will be available in Alpha 4 to complement existing tablet gestures.
- • Kodi now supports being compiled with Xcode 7
- • The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
- • Add stereoscopic depth for Confluence skin
- • Extended support for browsing movies by country and through UPnP as well as user-ratings which we be added in future versions.
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