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<li>
Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
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Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
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Improve webserver caching control
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External subtitles over UPnP
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Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
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Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
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Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
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Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
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ffmpeg 2.5.4 update
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Remove remaining SDL code
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Minimal Mac OSX 10.7 Lion required
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Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
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Minimal iOS 5.1 required
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iOS 8.1 SDK & MacOSX 10.10 SDK
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Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
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Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
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Removed the need for root/SU on Android
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Android PIL packaging fixed
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Changed code to C++11
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Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minors fixed
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General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
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General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
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see release <a href="http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-alpha-1-road-to-isengard/" target="_blank">announcement </a>for full change details
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</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span>
</p>
<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Encode addon</strong></span>
</p>
<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*</pre>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Uninstall Kodi</strong></span>
</p>
<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo apt-get remove kodi</pre>