21.0.3-Omega

v21.0.3 (2023-03-24)

• [DASH] better period matching for live refreshes
• [AdaptiveStream] rework/update of download retries, allowing for VOD retry attempts
• [SSD] add xbmcaltbinaddons to search path
• [SSD][Widevine] Add new video formats

21.0.2-Omega

v21.0.2 (2023-03-10)

• Reimplement saving license data, controllable in settings
• [DASH] fix representation updates for identical adaptationsets
• [Widevine] add support for linux arm64
• reduce logging when waiting for new segments in live manifests
• [DASH] fix url calculation issues
• bump gtest
• handle PIFF protection scheme

20.3.5-Nexus

v20.3.5 (2023-03-10)

• [Widevine] Reimplement saving license data, controllable in settings
• [DASH] fix representation updates for identical adaptationsets
• [Widevine] add support for linux arm64
• reduce logging when waiting for new segments in live manifests
• [DASH] fix url calculation issues

21.0.1-Omega

v21.0.1 (2023-02-23)

• overhaul url utils to follow RFC 3986
• [Debug] option to save manifests to disk for debugging purposes
• remove deprecated properties and pipe support for manifest url
• [DRM] fix bug when supplying license_data property

20.3.4-Nexus

v20.3.4 (2023-02-23)

• overhaul url utils to follow RFC 3986
• [Debug] option to save manifests to disk for debugging purposes
• [DRM] fix bug when supplying license_data property
• translation updates

20.3.3-Nexus

v20.3.3 (2023-02-08)

• [Repchooser] Don't give stream selector dialog when only one available
• [DRM] handle empty headers with license request
• fix crashing on malformed url params
• New properties for separate stream/manifest headers/params and overhaul of behaviour, fixing some manifests that wouldn't play. Add-on devs please see integration page on our wiki.
• [HLS] default to TS filetype when file extension missing/unable to be determined
• [fMP4] handle changing track IDs between streams, fixes crashing on stream change
• [WV] improved capability logging
• Fix regression with seeking
• [HLS][WEBVTT] Various fixes including duplicate subtitle issue, alignment for some streams, bad behaviour of filling segment buffer before starting playback
• [Bento4] upstream updates fixing building on powerpc linux
• [DASH] fix for live videos with segmenttimeline in representations, correct manifest parameter automatically set

20.3.2-Nexus

v20.3.2 (2023-01-11)

• [HLS] fix for incomplete length sub streams
• Fix memory leak
• [ISM] allow case insensitive live flag
• Fix crashing when missing track ID
• Fix issue where manifest files without an extension would not play
• [ISM] fix regression preventing protection being parsed correctly
• Bump Bento4 to 1.6.0-639-5-Nexus

20.3.1-Nexus

v20.3.1 (2022-10-07)

• Print stream ids in log when seeking
• [DASH] Fix possible crash for live streams
• [DASH] Fix issue with baseurls/template causing incorrect url calculation
• [DRM] Fix regression with unknown keyids sending uninitialised data to decrypter
• [HLS] Support EXT-X-Byterange tags that don't contain start byte value
• Allow for playlists to set crypto mode
• [DRM] Partial refactor, fix for decrypting CBC with multi subsamples

v20.3.0-Nexus

• Kodi inputstream API update to version 3.2.0
• Implemented AV1 support
• Handled limited GUI resolution with Adjust refresh rate
• Fix video resume with seek
• Fix use after free crash from readsample thread
• Fix condition check for chunked transfers
• Fix relating to subtitle playback
• [Subtitles][WebVTT] Sync to current period start (chapter)

Note: This need Kodi Nexus from 16. September 2022 or newer!

20.2.3-Nexus

v20.2.3 (2022-07-02)

• [DASH] Fix crash when SegmentList is in root of Period
• [HLS] fix PKCS7 stripping on chunked transfers
• Kodi now buffers correctly on slow connections