Kodi 17 "Krypton" Alpha 3 Brings Live TV and PVR Improvements, New Skin Features | Linux Today

Kodi 17 “Krypton” Alpha 3 Brings Live TV and PVR Improvements, New Skin Features

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Marius Nestor
Aug 1, 2016

Kodi 17 Alpha 3 comes exactly one month after the release of the second Alpha build, which in fact was the first one to be made available for public testing. During the entire month of July, the Kodi development team managed to squash more of those nasty bugs reported by users since Kodi 17 Alpha 2, as well as to add some new exciting features. The biggest new changes today’s Kodi 17 “Krypton” Alpha 3 milestone are improvements to the video playback, the implementation of a “Copy to Kodi” function on the iOS platform, support for the latest FFmpeg 3.1 multimedia frameworks, as well as Visual Studio 2015 support for the Windows builds.

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Marius Nestor

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