KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 2, available for download and install

We already have ready to download and install the new official version of Kodi 20 “Nexus” Alpha2. An update that continues to evolve this software towards its final version, in a few months it will be stable.

The changes made on Kodi v20 Nexus are few at the aesthetic level as we can appreciate, and it seems a fairly similar version in this aspect. Internally, we have the official changelog published for more details. In any case, we have versions available for Windows in 32 and 64bit compilations in addition to the compilations for Android in ARM V7A format for greater compatibility and ARM V8A for Shield TV or similar.

• • SOME ADD-ONS DON’T WORK WITH THIS VERSION, downgrade and install KODI 18.9 to solve problems.

Download KODI 20 Nexus Alpha 1

• Download installer Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 installer for Windows 64 bit, recommended for any PC.
• Download installer Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 for Windows 32 bit, for very old PCs.
• Download apk Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 for Android 32 bit ARM V7A, compatible with all the TV-Box.
• Download apk Kodi v20 Nexus Alpha2 for Android 64 bit ARM V8A, only NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip SoC’s.
• NOTE DOWNLOAD: there are browsers that block EXE and APK download, use right click “Save link as”, then in the download tab below click on the little arrow above next to “Discard” and select SAVE.

Changelog

Platform Specific

• Android
  • Fix a stutter when the Kodi Android app was opened, closed and opened again. One of our team members (@thexai) noticed an issue with a recent PR that caused media stuttering to occur only after the app was opened and closed and reopened again without a force close. @ksooo has come up with a fix, so hopefully playback should be a better experience over Alpha 1.
  • Another TrueHD fix – buffers reduced to a specific level to optimise data throughput – Android: Adjust buffer size/duration for TrueHD IEC.
  • More local app icons should render fully in Kodi – Android: CFileAndroidApp::ReadIcon: Add support for icons provided a….
  • Fix a packaging error for binary python modules (pycryptodome) – Android: packaging: don’t delete cryptodome libraries from depends i….
• XBox
  • Fixes some specific H.265 video crashes – XBox: DXVA2: Allows the use of more than 16 decoding surfaces for H265 Full HD or less.

Python

• Android and Apple systems have had their Python version bumped to 3.9.13 in accordance with the latest release of the CPython 3.9 series. Of note, there have been fixes by the CPython team specifically for issues raised by Kodi community members around some crashes. Thanks to those members raising the upstream issues, and the fantastic CPython team for fixing them.

  Please note, this does not affect any of our Windows releases, or if you are using Linux.

Filesystems

• Fix a regression that caused thumbnails to not appear when accessed from “remote” filesystems (e.g. WebDAV) – fixed: URIUtils::IsInternetStream() didn’t properly handle filesystem….

Closed Captions

• Fix an instance of Closed Captions not working. A forum member was able to provide an extremely helpful sample that allowed @enen92 to track down an issue with closed captions not working correctly. Incidentally, this also fixes Closed Captions for some Inputstream.Adaptive streams as confirmed by @CastagnaIT.

Subtitles

• Multiple WebVTT fixes
  • Subtitles: WebVTT: Fix X-TIMESTAMP-MAP LOCAL parsing.
  • Subtitles: WebVTT: Clear all overlays just before creating a new parser.
  • Subtitles: WevVTT: Sync cue timestamps with period start.

Bluray

• Fix BluRay resume issues – Discs: Fix resume of Blurays and BluRay ISOs (state serializer).

Thumbnail Images

• Reduce “quality” of thumbnail creation – FFmpegImage: Reduce quality a tiny bit

  NOTE: An advanced setting is available for those users who wish to alter the default further. More information can be found on the wiki.

Skinning

• A couple of skinning changes have been introduced. gui: info: Add VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants and gui: info: Add Addon.Setting* infos.
• Skin timers – skinning: Skin timer implementation.
• Removal of player.DisplayAfterSeek – gui: info: Remove Player.DisplayAfterSeek.
• Skip border infill – Adds GUI hint for skins to skip border infill.
• Moving speed – gui: Implemented movingspeed to mover/resize controls.
• Diffuse fading animations – Added diffuse fading animation effect .
• VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants – gui: info: Add VideoPlayer.Art(type) and positional variants.