Kodi 19 Alpha 1 Released With AV1 Decoding, Many Other HTPC Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Kodi 19 Alpha 1 Released With AV1 Decoding, Many Other HTPC Improvements

Kodi 19 "Matrix" Alpha 1 has been released for this very popular, cross-platform open-source HTPC software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kodi-19-Alpha-1-Released

[tildearrow]

Minor typo:

Support for game controllers for Kodi on IOS.

iOS

[Danny3]

I wonder if on Windows they caught up with the awesome high quality of MPC-HC + MadVr.
It would be great at least if HDR movies are properly rendered now on normal monitors and TV like MPC-HC can do it because of MadVr's conversion from HDR to SDR.

I'm curios at least if Kodi can do now hardware decoding like MPC-HC, it always seemed to be way behind.

[wswartzendruber]

It would be great at least if HDR movies are properly rendered now on normal monitors and TV like MPC-HC can do it because of MadVr's conversion from HDR to SDR.

This is something that I have been getting very much into. It is actually quite hard to get looking right.

[bug77]

This is something that I have been getting very much into. It is actually quite hard to get looking right.

Yes, it takes me a while to find the right tone mapping settings for my vacations photos, when I shoot for HDR. I wouldn't want to do that for video.

[Nille]

Unfortunately many Addons are still just Python 2 and many of them are in this horrible xml format that no one can read and that is a huge pain in the ass.