Kodi 19 "Matrix" Open-Source Home Theater Released, This Is What's New

Posted by hanuca on Feb 19, 2021 8:04 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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The long-anticipated Kodi 19 "Matrix" open-source home theater/media center has been officially released today as a major update with numerous new features and improvements.

Dubbed "Matrix" after the well-known Hollywood movie franchise with the same name, Kodi 19 has been in development for the past two years and comes with support for the AV1 video coding format, Python 3 support for add-ons, a new Matrix-inspired music visualization, along with new setting to automatically open the full-screen music visualization window when playback is started.

Kodi 19 also improves the handling of multi-disc CD sets and box sets and handling of album release dates, adds support for changing the subtitle opacity and a new dark grey color for subtitles, adds support for file tags over HTTPS, improve the viewing quality of Pixel Art games, adds support for more OpenGL bicubic scalers, as well as various improvements to user information.

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