Kodi v21.2 Omega, available for download and install

We can now download the new Kodi 21.2 Omega version. It fixes many small bugs of the previous version.

When you installing the Kodi 21.2 Omega version we can see how the aesthetic changes are few and it seems a fairly continuous version in this aspect. The most important changes at a glance are the inclusion of FFmpeg 6 support, support for on-the-fly Dolby Vision profile conversion, and other minor or unseen changes.

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 of greater compatibility and ARM V8A for Shield TV or similar. In the following weeks, this version will evolve, and we will inform you about its new features.

Download KODI 21.2 Omega

• DOWNLOAD WARNING: 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.

Download KODI 21.2 Omega for Android

• Download apk Kodi v21.2 Omega for Android 32 bit ARM V7A, compatible with all the TV-Box and Amlogic.
• Download apk Kodi v21.2 Omega for Android 64 bit ARM V8A, only NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip SoC’s.
• How to install an APK on Android, from USB or sending APK from your mobile.

Download KODI 21.2 Omega for Windows

• Download installer Kodi v21.2 Omega for Windows 64 bit, recommended for any PC.
• Download installer Kodi v21.2 Omega for Windows 32 bit, for very old PCs.

KODI Tutorials

• Installing Addons on KODI, step by step guide and additional tricks.
• Fix Judder effect, avoid image jumps during playback.
• Multichannel sound on Android and Windows, HD sound in your home.
• Use SAMBA home network with KODI

Changelog

Library/Sources and Management

• Fixed a bug that ignored images in the ...\season\.actors folder. The \season\.actors folders have been deprecated and all actors are saved in the \TV Show\.actors folder. (forum, PR)
• Restore performance of movie addition to the library to v20 (Nexus) level (PR)
• Fixed/improved playback from some UPnP server software (at least UMS and Gerbera. Some NAS UPnP servers are based on UMS under the covers). Playback starts faster and multiple videos can be played consecutively. (PR)
• Preserve special characters in names of scanned or added movie extras (PR)
• Replace context menu items ‘Set actor/artist thumb’ with ‘Choose art’ to make it possible again to add/and set other artwork, not only thumbnails (PR)
• Fixed mark watched/unwatched operations missing in certain context menus (PR)
• Honour importwatchedstate and importresumepoint settings from advancedsettings.xml (PR)

Video

• Fixed HDR passthrough on video sources with partial or missing display metadata (only GL/GLES platforms) (PR)
• Fixed HDR to SDR tone mapping on video sources with partial or missing display metadata (only GL/GLES platforms) (PR)
• Fixed possible incorrect picture metadata if playing different HDR videos without stopping the previous one and the videos had different HDR metadata (all platforms) (PR)
• Fixed on Blu-Ray discs some BD-j menu items not displaying correctly due to multi-thread timing issues (PR)
• Fixed deletion of bookmarks in video if the video has also chapters (PR)

Music

• Fixed an issue with the last track duration of some albums stored in mka containers (PR)

Plugins

• Fixed missing context menu entries for plugin-provided items (PR)

Filesystem

• Restored the ability of enter credentials when browsing SMB shares (only POSIX platforms) (PR)
• Updated cURL to 8.10.0 to fix issues with FTP TLS sources (PR)

PVR

• EPG search fixes (PR)
• Fixed resume points for recordings not honoured (PR)
• Fixed ‘User has no access / server’ error if broadcasts have been shifted (PR)
• Fixed default select action ‘show info’ for PVR items (PR)

Skin/GUI

• Added Donation tab in System Settings (PR)
• In preparation for our next major release, we’ve been updating the translation strings in all 78 of our binary add-ons (audio, inputstream, peripheral, screensaver, vfs, visualisation…). These updates have now all been backported to this release, so there’s a bonus of a year’s worth of fixes and improvements here.

Android

• Greatly improved joystick support on Android (PR)
• Fixed possible crash when getInterfaceName method returns null (PR)
• Fixed resuming paused media playback not working via play/pause media key press (PR)
• Fixed black screen when resuming app from minimised state (PR)

Linux

• Fixed memory corruption when high quality video scalers are used (PR)
• Fixed possible infinite loop when using GBM and a DRM Atomic Commit fails (PR)
• Fixed windowed Kodi becoming larger on every start when running on Wayland with a scale factor (PR)

OSX

• Fixed crash when trying to detect optical media (PR)

Windows

• Fixed the crash issue that occurred when accessing the computer using Remote Desktop Protocol (PR)
• Fixed the ability of the built-in WOL feature to wake up servers ([PR](https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/25707

))

• Fixed the potential crash occurred when the system contained environment variables name with a length of more than 64 characters (PR)
• Fixed HDR feature did not work on Windows 11 24H2 under some circumstances (PR)
• Improved support for WCG displays on Windows 11 24H2 (PR)