Kodi, formerly known as XBMC, is a popular media player and media center interface. It powers everything from custom home theater PCs to embedded players, and now version 20 is available, nicknamed “Nexus.”
Kodi 20 isn’t a groundbreaking release that will completely change how you stream media or use Kodi add-ons, but it is significant — the project said over 4,600 code changes went into this release. The blog post explains, “the majority of changes are ‘under the hood’ and invisible to users but improve the stability, performance, and safety of Kodi. API changes have been made to evolve Python and Binary add-ons and bring new skinning features. There are updates to Kodi dependencies on most if not all Kodi platforms.”
So, what’s new besides crucial fixes? Well, there’s full support for AV1 video hardware decoding, as well as compatibility with NFSv4 and HDR on Windows PCs. Context menus (right-click menus) have also been improved across the entire interface. The subtitle system has been reworked to support dynamic positioning, changing border and background colors, better positioning, and much more. Kodi can also save and load game states using…
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