Added the ability to select an action when starting playback (for example, you can choose to continue playback from an interrupted position), providing more control over the playback experience.
We have been able to do this in previous versions at least back to v17…
Improved AV1 support is welcome, and the ffmpeg change as well.
I just hope my skin will be ported. I updated and it no longer works :(
This will be my first major Kodi update. I’m using Arctic Zephyr Reloaded skin, Seren, and Asgard. Will I have to wait for some sort of confirmation that they will work on Kodi 21 or should they already work with no updating/porting required? I’ve been holding off on the update because of this.
Seren seems to work so far. No clue about the rest.
Arctic horizon had no issues for me.
Does anyone know if this brings back IPTV/Normal TV support in Linux? As of 20 it’s just been gone, despite still being there in 20 on Android.
? I’ve got IPTV working fine on Libreelec (Linux) on 20.3
It’s been a long time since I used Kodi. Sheeit, I’m talking like nine years or so, like shortly after they stopped using the “XBMC” name. What are people’s thoughts on the interface and library functionality these days?
I loved the control Kodi offered, but I couldn’t quite get a setup that I liked… I wanted to show previously viewed tv episodes on the home screen along with whatever episode was “up next” or “on deck” but I couldn’t quite figure it out. I can’t remember the plugin name or exactly how it worked, but I started using a plugin that connected to my Plex Server for this (I was trying to leave Plex due to fewer customizable options and general shittiness), but it didn’t always sync right so I abandoned the idea of Kodi completely and went back to using Plex full time.
Ugh. Yeah that was all right for a while, but then Plex started getting really shitty with all the bloatware, UI changes, the new focus on streaming, and dumb/unclear restrictions (JFC, should we be able to run the server without connecting to their auth service or not?) so I dropped it in favor of Jellyfin, which I’ve been using for the past three years. I dig Jellyfin, but development is slow and it’s not nearly as customizable as I remember Kodi being.
So uh, yeah. Any thoughts on the current Kodi client interface? Can you make it usable in a Netflix-y sorta way so it shows your viewing history and what’s next in order for tv episodes? That should be easy to set up with themes and/or plugins, right? Oh, and how are genres and recommendations handled? Can you edit genre metadata?
