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=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === * Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions

...ecoding support and choose multithreaded Software Decoding in the Video -> Acceleration settings. ...Radeon OSS drivers which have been developed to use the open source VDPAU API.

=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === * Added unified Live TV and PVR frontend with a common EPG and DVR (Digital Video Recording) client GUI

=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === ...improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API

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=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === * Improved PVR, EPG, and OSD frontend GUI in Kodi and extended the PVR API to support more features and functions

=== Add-ons Framework, API, and Manager === * Extended Add-ons API to support adding extension points for '''Service Add-ons''' (xbmc.service)

...potential methods of and the '''development''' around Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding. ...ation offload portions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_decoding video decoding process] to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_

=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === * Added support to PVR API for Scheduling Recordings of TV Shows (EPG based DVR Timers for "Series Rec

=== Live TV and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) === * Added enhancement/improvements to PVR addon API (connection state change handling, asynchronous updates & more)<ref>http://

...uns well on what are relatively "underpowered" systems, thanks to hardware video decoding being common on nearly all supported platforms. These requirements * If your GPU/VPU does not support hardware video decoding then you will require a fast modern processor is required to decod

...e decode and it is also suppose to be supported via the Android MediaCodec API on those devices, not surprisingly since it is Google who promotes both VP9 ..., Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support playing VP9 video format in the HTML5 video tag.''

** '''[[Leia_API_changes|v18 API Changes]]''' ...e_Add-ons|game clients addons]] as well as emulator cores via [[libretro]] API<ref name="RetroPlayer">RetroPlayer http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=

...pend on what is meant by "''full featured''" in fulfilling all the Android API requirements that Kodi needs to fully function properly. * There are two acceleration options on the Pi. "omxplayer" runs much of the player logic on the gpu whi

kodi: cdrom,audio,render,video,plugdev,users,dialout,dip,input ...A-API) is properly initialized during Kodi start-up and videos playing get acceleration using VAAPI and not VDPAU on Intel or AMD cards. To add user to groups, use

...erated Video Decoding of H.264 (MPEG-4 part-10, a.k.a. MPEG-4 AVC) encoded video. '''GPU Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding of MPEG-4 encoded video'''

...et"), as on Android platforms this SoC chipset is what can playback common video codecs smoothly using Kodi/XBMC.<section end="intro" /> ...wer, offloading a large part of video decoding tasks to an integrated VPU (Video Processor Unit) that is optimized specifically for this job is considered e

{{mininav| [[Video library]] | [[Video playback|Playback]] }} ...tion begin="intro" />Starting in v13, Kodi supports a number of passive 3D video formats such as SBS, TAB, anaglyph or interlaced. This support extends to t

...as sometimes needing changes between versions. Some add-ons, such as most video, audio, and picture add-ons, are compatible with multiple versions. Kodi v1 ...odi v16 (Jarvis) changelog'''. Add-on developers should also see '''Jarvis API changes''', and skinners should also read the sticky posts in the '''[http: