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XBMC Wiki copy of the XBMC v13 (Gotham) condensed changelog for the release with a summery of the larger or most important features and functions.


== Changelog ==
== Changelog ==
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* Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
* Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
* Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
* Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
* ?
* Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
* Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR recording software platforms:
** PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
** IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
** NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
** VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** Argus_TV|Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** DVBLink PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
** DVBViewer PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community


=== Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager ===
=== Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager ===
For full changelogs on changes to the Addons API, see [[Gotham API changes]], the [http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=98551 JSON-RPC Development Forum], and the [http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=173943 Python Development Forum]
For full changelogs on changes to all Addons APIs, see [[Archive:Gotham_API_changes]], the [http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=98551 JSON-RPC Development Forum], and the [http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173943 Python Development Forum]
* Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
* Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
* Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
* Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
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* Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
* Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
* Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
* Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
* ?
* Improved the ability to [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/901 extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated] via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 Groovy] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29 SWIG]
* Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight Ambilight] clone client software such as Boblight


=== GUI Engine (Skinning Engine) ===
=== GUI Engine (Skinning Engine) ===
For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see [[Gotham API changes]] and the [http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=158812 Skin Development Forum]
For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see [[Archive:Gotham_API_changes]] and the [http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=158812 Skin Development Forum]
* Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
* Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
* Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
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* Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
* Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
* Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
* Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms
* Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin Touched
* Added [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2040 ImageFactory implementation] with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
* Added [http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2040 ImageFactory implementation] with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
* Improved Dirty Regions rendering on all platforms
* Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting
* Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting
* ?


=== Platform Independent Playback ===
=== Platform Independent Playback ===
* Added support for H.264 (including [[Hi10P]]) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
* Added support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
* Added ability to play external audio track with videos
* Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
* Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings  
* Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings  
* Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players
* Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_1.2 FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)]
* Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to [http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_1.2 FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)]
* ?


=== Library ===
=== Library ===
* Added extensive [[MusicBrainz]] tags support to the Music Library and Database
* Added extensive MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database
* Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them
* Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them
* Added tag field support for TV Shows and MusicVideos in SmartPlaylists
* Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality
* Added support to read SmartPlaylists XML files with XMLUtils where possible
* Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
* Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
* Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
* Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
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* Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
* Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
* Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
* Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
* ?
* Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing


=== Scrapers ===
=== Web Scrapers ===
* Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos
* Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos
* ?


=== AudioEngine ===
=== AudioEngine ===
* Added new event driven ActiveAE audio sink as the default audio engine
* Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] sink as the default for XBMC's AudioEngine
* Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on OSX and iOS
* Added ALSA sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
* ?
* Added PulseAudio sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop
* Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
* Added AUDIOTRACK sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Amlogic
* Added Pi Audio sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Raspberry Pi]]
* Added DirectSound sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added WASAPI sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
* Added Darwin sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Mac OS X and iOS
* Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS


=== Other ===
=== Other ===
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* Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
* Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
* Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
* Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC|HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control)] support for [http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/ Pulse-Eight's LibCEC]
* Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
* Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via [[Translation System|Transifex Translation System]]
* Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via Transifex Translation System
* ?


=== Android Specific ===
=== Android Specific ===
* Added first full (and stable) XBMC for [[Android (operating system)|Android]] port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
* Added first full (and stable) XBMC for Android]] port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
* Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
* Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
* Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
* Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
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* Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
* Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
* Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
* Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
* Improved the dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on AMLogic devices
* Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
* Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
* Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
* Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
* ?
* Improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29 NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set)] CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture


=== BSD Specific ===
=== BSD Specific ===
* Improved XBMC support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
* Improved XBMC support for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD (operating system)] on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
* ?
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD


=== Linux Specific ===
=== Linux Specific ===
* Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
* Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
* Improved ARM processor architecture ([http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html Pivos XIOS DS] and Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices)
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support ([http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html Pivos XIOS DS] and Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices)
* Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
* Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
* Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
* Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
* Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
* Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
* Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
* Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
* Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
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* Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
* Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
* Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
* Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
* Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11
* Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
* ?


=== iOS Specific ===
=== iOS Specific ===
* Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
* Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
* Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)
* Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)
* ?


=== Mac OS X Specific ===
=== Mac OS X Specific ===
* Improved XBMC support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
* Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key
* Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key
* ?


=== Windows Specific ===
=== Windows Specific ===
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* Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot)
* Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot)
* Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later)
* Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later)
* ?


= References =
== References ==
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[[Category:Changelogs]]

Latest revision as of 05:18, 4 August 2020

XBMC Wiki copy of the XBMC v13 (Gotham) condensed changelog for the release with a summery of larger and important features and functions.

Changelog

Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

  • Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence)
  • Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
  • Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
  • Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
  • Added, updated, and improved PVR backend clients addons for many popular third-party external PVR recording software platforms:
    • PVR Demo Client dummy addon with fake backend from Team-XBMC for skin development and regression testing
    • IPTV (IPTV Simple Client) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Tvheadend PVR Addon backend clients maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • NextPVR (former GB-PVR) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Njoy Digital (N7) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • MediaPortal PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • MythTV PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from the XBMC's community
    • VDR (Video Disk Recorder) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Vu+ / Enigma2 / Dreambox PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • Argus_TV|Argus TV / ForTheRecord PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • WMC (Windows Media Center) PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • DVBLink PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community
    • DVBViewer PVR Addon backend client maintained and available from XBMC's community

Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager

For full changelogs on changes to all Addons APIs, see Archive:Gotham_API_changes, the JSON-RPC Development Forum, and the Python Development Forum

  • Added option for allowing skins to query directories (e.g. plugins) to fill static content
  • Added a Monitor class to receive JSON-RPC notifications directly through the Python bindings
  • Added announce function and register addon for announcements to the Add-ons API
  • Added new Built-In function to control state of attached HDMI CEC device via Add-ons API
  • Added support for XBMC's Python interface to use native keyboard if possible (currently only iOS)
  • Added support for addon binary reading and writing via a "buffer" class usable from addons
  • Added WOL (Wake-on-LAN) with send magic packet function to the Add-ons API
  • Improved the ability to extend XBMC's native Python API by writing C++ code generated via Groovy and SWIG
  • Improved Addons API for homebrew DIY RGB LED Ambilight clone client software such as Boblight

GUI Engine (Skinning Engine)

For full changelog on changes to the skinning engine, see Archive:Gotham_API_changes and the Skin Development Forum

  • Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
  • Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
  • Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
  • Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
  • Added option support for both banner and poster music art types simultaneously
  • Added picture tags metadata info accessible for skins or addons developers
  • Added further optimizations to XBMC's GUI engine for faster rendering on low resource embedded devices
  • Improved touch and gesture support for all platforms, and also improved the default touch screen skin Touched
  • Added ImageFactory implementation with factory to abstract different image libraries and hardware acceleration
  • Improved Dirty Regions rendering on all platforms
  • Refactored settings system to consist of XML files containing descriptions of every setting

Platform Independent Playback

  • Added support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
  • Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
  • Added support for video playback of SageTV recordings
  • Added unified buffering capability to video and overlay renderers for all internal players
  • Upgraded FFmpeg (libavcodec and libavformat) audio/video codec and demuxer libraries to FFmpeg 1.2 (rev e820e3a)

Library

  • Added extensive MusicBrainz tags support to the Music Library and Database
  • Added ability to queue list of items / add items to a playlist without playing them
  • Improved and extended Smart Playlists functionality
  • Added support for scanning videos SFTP and SSH sources so can scrape metadata
  • Added support for write-enabled WebDAV (delete/rename/write files and directories)
  • Added "Add art" button to video artwork selection dialog
  • Added support for "last played" sort option to the TV Show GUI
  • Added support for OGG cover art extraction to TagLib
  • Added option support for exporting music art as JPEG or PNG rather than TBN file extension
  • Improved performance for SQL database queries for faster browsing

Web Scrapers

  • Added theaudiodb.com music video scraper as new default for music videos

AudioEngine

  • Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] sink as the default for XBMC's AudioEngine
  • Added ALSA sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
  • Added PulseAudio sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Linux Desktop
  • Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
  • Added AUDIOTRACK sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Amlogic
  • Added Pi Audio sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Raspberry Pi]]
  • Added DirectSound sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
  • Added WASAPI sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Windows
  • Added Darwin sink for AudioEngine#ActiveAE|ActiveAE]] for Mac OS X and iOS
  • Added support for CoreAudio AudioEngine to OS notifications for device changes on Mac OS X and iOS

Other

  • Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
  • Added new "Fishbmc" audio visualization addon (only OpenGL versions for Linux and Mac OS X for now)
  • Added GUI settings levels for Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert (defaults to "Standard")
  • Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
  • Added possibility to define help descriptions ("I" key) for every setting in GUI settings
  • Added option to set auto login of a specific user profile via the GUI
  • Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
  • Added support to allow key IDs in keyboard.xml to be in hexadecimal format
  • Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
  • Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
  • Added initial support for running libxbmc.so headless (without GUI) as a background service / deamon
  • Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
  • Improved CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) support for Pulse-Eight's LibCEC
  • Moved subtitle addon core handling to core and added native support for subtitle plugin services
  • Updated community maintained translations to over 60+ languages to date for XBMC via Transifex Translation System

Android Specific

  • Added first full (and stable) XBMC for Android]] port with multi-architecture platform support (supports ARM, MIPS, and x86)
  • Added built-in command for addons and skins to execute Android apps with optional params via applicationmanager
  • Added support to allow landscape and reverse landscape orientation of XBMC GUI on Android
  • Added MediaCodec API (Android 4.1 API level 16) software rendering implementation support to XBMC's DVDPlayer
  • Added StageFright API (Android 4.0 API level 14) hardware rendering implementation support to XBMC
  • Added OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for OpenMAX AL API on Android via StageFright and MediaCodec
  • Improved the dedicated AMLPlayer video player for hardware accelerated video decoding on AMLogic devices
  • Added external player (external player launcher) support on Android
  • Added native volume control for Android from within XBMC
  • Improved NEON (Advanced SIMD instruction set) CPU acceleration support for ARM architecture

BSD Specific

  • Improved XBMC support for BSD (operating system) on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and other similar BSD platforms
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) Hardware Acceleration Video Decoding support on BSD

Linux Specific

  • Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
  • Improved ARM processor architecture (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices)
  • Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support (Pivos XIOS DS and Raspberry Pi]] as reference devices)
  • Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
  • Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
  • Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
  • Added RenderCapture implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi for Ambilight addons
  • Added support for OpenMAX pipeline to handle JPEG decode/resize/convert/encode to texture on Raspberry Pi
  • Added support for hardware assisted video decoding of MJPEG, VP6, VP8 and Ogg Theora on Raspberry Pi
  • Added support for Fast Forward and Rewind video up 4x to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
  • Added support multi-channel PCM audio output over HDMI to OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) on Linux for Raspberry Pi
  • Added screenshot implementation to Linux for Raspberry Pi that includes the video layer
  • Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
  • Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux

iOS Specific

  • Added support for native media control bar and play background music on iOS
  • Added adaptions for developing XBMC on non-jailbroken iSO devices (for development only, not to release on App Store)

Mac OS X Specific

  • Improved XBMC support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
  • Added support for copy and paste to and from clipboard with command key

Windows Specific

  • Added support for Pixel Shader based HQ (High Quality) scalers for DXVA renderer on Windows
  • Added hybrid shutdown option on Windows 8 (which in turn enables quick boot)
  • Removed Windows XP support (as from now XBMC for Windows requires at least Vista or later)

References

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