More and more users are deciding to prepare their equipment to turn it into a complete multimedia center. Kodi is one of the best programs for these tasks and thus enjoy our music, video and more content in the fastest and most effective way.
Here we are referring to an open source project that many of you know because it has been with us for several years. Furthermore, its top managers do not stop updating it, as is now the case in the case at hand. We are not only talking about a multimedia content player, since it also has a multitude of management and organization functions.
At the same time, it is worth noting that it has support for practically all the formats and types of files with these characteristics. Now we are going to talk to you about the arrival of the new version of the program, Kodi 21.2 “Omega”. As it could not be otherwise, here we are going to find an update full of new features and fixes for Kodi that we will mention later. As its developers tell us, we should update as soon as possible to be able to benefit from all of this.
News and corrections of the new Kodi 21.2
We are talking about one of the most used programs in this sector in the world, so its updates directly affect millions of users. Below we are going to talk about the bug fixes and some new features that have been included in this new version.
- Its developers add a new donation tab in the System Settings window.
- Fixed a bug that ignored images in certain folders that had become obsolete.
- Performance has finally been improved when adding movies to the library.
- Improved playback from some UPnP servers, achieving a faster start of playback, and several videos can be played consecutively.
- Special characters are already preserved in names of extras from scanned or added films.
- We can replace the context menu items so that it is possible to add and set other illustrations, not just thumbnails.
- Corrected the marked seen or unseen operations that were missing in some context menus.
- Fixed HDR passthrough on video sources with partial or missing display metadata.
- Fix HDR to SDR tone mapping to video sources with partial or missing display metadata.
- There are no longer errors with incorrect image metadata if playing different HDR videos without stopping the previous one.
- Fixed issue on Blu-ray discs with some menu items not displaying correctly due to multi-threaded synchronization issues.
- Corrected the removal of markers in video if the multimedia content also has chapters.
- Fixed an issue with the length of the last track of some albums stored in music mka containers.
Once we know all this, we recommend updating the program as soon as possible, something you can do from its official website. You have the possibility of obtaining the new version of Kodi through this link.
