Kodi (XBMC) 14.1 ‘Helix’ Released, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint
Features of Kodi
Kodi is widely used and full of features allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the Internet.
Kodi can play all your music including mp3, flac, wav, and wma formats. It has a cue sheet, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.
 MusicKodi can play all your music including mp3, flac, wav, and wma formats. It has a cue sheet, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.  TVShowsThe TVShows library supports episode and season views with posters or banners, watched tags, show descriptions and actors. Great for keeping track of your progress. |  MoviesKodi can do Movies too! Supporting all the main video formats including streamable online media, Kodi can import, browse and play your Movie collection with ease.  TVShowsKodi allows you to watch and record live TV all from the GUI interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more. |
What’s New in Kodi 14.1
As told above this release is majorly a bug fixes release. Kodi 14.1 includes many Bug Fixes –
- * Fix: incorrect video screen size on Android AML devices
- * Fix: potential segfault when silencing audio
- * Fix: do not skip streaminfo if the format is not known.
- * Fix: DXVA flickering on AMD
- * Fix: prevent possible over-flow in ALSA
- * Fix: possible sorting problems in the library
- * Fix: possible problem in library navigation
- * Fix: don’t scroll text when it’s set to not do it
- * Fix: scroll text if it’s too long on spinner controls
- * Fix: don’t overlap PVR search labels
- * Fix: bug in DLNA client string on iOS
- * Fix: updated several PVR add-ons
- * Fix: remember played state of the video when started from recently added
- * Fix: correct vsync on OSX
- * Fix: broken keyboard input
- * Fix: prevent crash on circular dependencies of add-ons
- * Fix: large file support on Android
- * Fix: random exiting on Android x86 builds (Nexus Player for example)
Re-touched skin
As of now the standard touch skin which is called re-touched, now also includes a PVR section.
How to Install Kodi 14.1 in Ubuntu Or Linux Mint
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install kodi
Upgrade –
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Uninstall –
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove kodi* sudo apt-get purge kodi*
