{"id":766,"date":"2014-12-26T01:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:52:40","slug":"kodi-14-0-helix-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Kodi 14.0 Helix &#8211; Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kodi (formally known as XBMC)<\/strong> is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, 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.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kodi_about.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-767 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kodi_about.jpg\" alt=\"kodi_about\" width=\"630\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Changes on Kodi 14.<\/strong><br \/>\nBug and fixes on the new release of kodi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bump FFmpeg to 2.4.4<\/li>\n<li>Fix problem with setting content on new and existing video sources<\/li>\n<li>Fix spinner in video settings for choosing hardware or software decoding<\/li>\n<li>Fix recording history in PVR<\/li>\n<li>Separate sort order in PVR window for each directory<\/li>\n<li>Fix PVR preview video scaling for AMLCodec on Android<\/li>\n<li>Fix restart option on Win 8.1<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes on certain Intel GPU when playing video<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes on certain videos on Android 5.0 devices (Nexus Player and ADT-1)<\/li>\n<li>Fix LPCM (audio\/L16) streaming via UPnP<\/li>\n<li>Use correct art type when appending art to item lists<\/li>\n<li>Fix python PIL package on Windows that caused crash on weather add-on<\/li>\n<li>Updated GUI translation files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Download Kodi:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe release can be found on our official download page <a title=\"Kodi\" href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/download#devbuilds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Kodi Download&#8221;<\/a> the page contains our release candidate builds and our nightly builds for the Helix release.<br \/>\nTo install Kodi 14.0 &#8220;Helix&#8221; in Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint 17<br \/>\n1. Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and execute the following commands below in the Terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install kodi kodi-pvr* kodi-audioencoder*\n<\/pre>\n<p>and your done enjoy using Kodi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodi (formally known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[378,379,273],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-news","tag-kodi","tag-multimedia","tag-xbmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}