Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2最近发布下载，Kodi（此前名为 XBMC）是一款著名的开源媒体中心和家庭影院电脑，改软件被翻译成超过30种语言。另外，其功能可高度扩展的通过第三方插件和扩展，支持PVR（个人视频录像机）。
Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 更新日志：
10bit/HEVC hardware enabled playback on INtel or NVIDIA GPU that have the capabilities (see hardware specs)
Refactor of scrapers
Fix possible high CPU usage with GUI rendering
Playback improvement on all platforms
Support for multiple external ratings and userrating from GUI and smartplaylists
Audio and subtitle filter added to smartplaylists
Use ffmpeg for loading certain types of images and drop external libraries
Added PVR to eventlog feature
Various database optimisations
Unify behaviour of context menu
Improvements on binary add-on handling
Rework of rendercapture which is used by boblight or ambilight implementations
Removes SAP streams support
Added MVC, framepack and 3D switching support on Raspberri-Pi
Change certain settings from spinners to a list
Further improvements on DirectX implementation
Further unify certain skin windows to make it easier to make new skins without duplicating same code
Music mood scanning
Game controller add-ons
Improved tag reading from music files
Improvement on Kodi rendering system which should reduce CPU load and pave the way to headless some day
Add InProgress node for TV Shows
Fix CPU count on Android
Various changes to Kodi python API. Please check documentation
Save skin settings on early exit which should fix problems with loosing settings after restart
Improved binary add-on API
Improvements to internal webserver
Use number separators from the selected GUI language (example 1.000,4 / 1,000.4) and also apply this to ratings
Update to FFmpeg 3.0 which brings improved playback, stability and security fixes
Security and stability improvement by updating to: Python 2.7.12 / mDNSResponder to 625.41.2 / libxslt 1.1.29 / libmicrohttpd to 0.9.50 / gettext 0.19.8 / libzip 1.1.2 / libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 / libpng 1.6.21 / lzo 2.09 / sqlite 3120200 / openssl 1.0.2h / taglib 1.11
Enable IPv6 for CURL
Added CMake building on all platforms. Still work in progress
Switch to Visual Studio 2015 building
Remove boost, CXimage, jpgIO, libsquish dependencies as they are obsolete
Auto create code documentation with Doxygen including a to-do list (link: https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/)
Moved old PyDocs of the Kodi API to Doxygen
Added skinning API to Doxygen
Removed dead and obsolete core code
Fixed memory leaks
Fixed possible code deadlocks
Fixed possible security flaws
Fixed possible crashes
Fixed code flaws found by various analyses tools
Ubuntu 16.04 安装 Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2：
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
安装插件编码
sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
移除 Kodi v17
sudo apt-get remove kodi*