Kodi 20 is the new major version of the popular media center and after months of development, the final version has started to be deployed for the supported platforms on its web portal and also in app stores/repositories.
In case you don’t know this multimedia center, you should know that it is licensed under open source, cross-platform and totally free. If you’ve been using it for a long time, you’ll probably know it as XBMC and before as Xbox Media Center because it was created for the first generation of Microsoft’s video game console.
Kodi supports a wide number of video and audio formats, but it does not remain only in the reproduction from virtually any source and like a modern Media Center includes playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, subtitles and much more. In addition, another of its great advantages comes from its plugin support own or from third parties that manage to increase their functions to almost any multimedia aspect that you need. Also pirated content, unintentionally, so it has had some problems in the past.
Kodi 20: news and download
The new version, codenamed ‘Nexus’, brings a lot of under the hood improvements, changes, fixes and new features that you can check out on their GitHub page. Among the main ones we can highlight:
- AV1 video support.
- Full HDR support on Windows platforms.
- Massive overhaul of the subtitle system.
- Loading multiple instances of a binary plugin.
- NFSv4 support,
- Improvements in context menu handling.
You can download Kodi 20 on its web portal, with versions for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, tvOS or an edition for Raspberry Pi that is accompanied by a dedicated case whose income, as well as donations, serve to allow this fantastic development to continue to improve. And since time in technology does not stand still, Kodi v21, codename ‘Omega’, is already underway.
