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Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Earlier this year, we shared with you that a pre-release version of Kodi 18 "Leia" 64-bit for Windows was available. There was a big catch, however -- it was not up to par with its 32-bit brother. And so, many people just stuck with the 32-bit version, because, well... why not? It is finally time to make the jump to the 64-bit variant, however, as according to the Kodi team, it is now identical to the 32-bit version from a feature perspective. "The 64-bit Kodi version for Windows is now feature complete and on the same level as 32-bit. From now on the 32-bit installer will include a warning to ask you to install the 64-bit instead. This upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version is seamless and you just need to install on top of the old version," says Kodi.
Why the fuck does this link to some hearsay on a third party site? The only link needed is the link to the official announcement on the official Kodi site.
Brian Fagioli really is a fagioli.
Editors: Could you not once during the lame summary have mentioned exactly what Kodi is? It's like slashdot is being written by one guy sitting at his high school lunch table for the other guys sitting at the same table.
How does that work where a TV license is concerned?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Not everyone uses it to watch pirated content. I use it as a "jukebox" to play my (legally purchased) collection of FLAC audio files from about 2500 CD's I purchased over the years and piped through my home theater audio system. Tucked all on a cheap Intel NUC with all the content stored on an internal M.2 SSD. It works great!
Some people, sure, but Kodi has a shitton more features and Plex is kinda like a toy in comparison. I mean, with Kodi you can adjust audio/video sync on-the-fly, subtitle-sync on-the-fly, enable/disable audio-passthrough and the format it uses and all sorts of equalizer-settings and whatnot, you can do 3D-playback and oh so much more. Personally, I really happen to like the Trakt-plugin to it, too, so it automatically tracks all the movies and TV-shows I've watched on there.
Yeah, theft is both good and bad.
Please tell me how theft would be good. As we're talking about copyright, the only theft (deprivation of property) here happens when one of the companies GP listed issue fraudulent DMCA/equivalent takedowns, not letting authors share and benefit from their own work, while the company claims the rights with impunity.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Kodi wants to entertain you
Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.
Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.
It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.
https://kodi.tv/
-Dave
I thought people were using Plex now?
I use PLEX and KODI. I found that the music libraries were easier to manage on PLEX, but KODI serves my video library needs. I use the PLEX app inside Kodi for music playback, one reason because no other PLEX client approaches have gapless playback.
I switched recently from Plex which I had been using forever to Kodi. With the right skin Kodi looks fantastic. The problem is it's not a client/server model like Plex is. You just run Kodi on a client and point it at files somewhere. So you can't do transcoding from the server to the client. And with plex the client can also be a web browser. Chorus2, the kodi web client, is pretty poor and the browser streaming is barely functional and in my experience is dependent on the browser support and media type because there's no transcoding.
But the UI is nice, it's highly configurable and using the shared mysql/maria database you can share your watch status and library between devices (I'm using NVIDIA Shields).
Overall Plex offers a far simpler experience and supports transcoding which opens up some options (streaming to small/mobile devices via the internet) but Plex has gotten pretty shady requiring accounts, almost changing their policy until user backlash and it's not open source. So the whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. I'm willing to put in a little extra elbow grease to get Kodi working well to not support Plex because it works well enough for my use case, which is a couple front ends attached to TVs streaming content from a NAS.
I mean I get that eventually it would be caught up but they are trying to make it sound as if this is some monumental event that has a ton of advantages, while failing to list any. I can't really think of any. It's not like anyone is running a pure 64bit system and kodi is not resource intensive either cpu wise or memory wise. Why should anyone care if its 32 or 64.
Is transcoding that big a deal? Even WiFi is fast enough for a few HD streams now, and if the NAS is on a wired connection then you're only using the WiFi spectrum one way. I just share my media via a read-only NFS / SMB / AFP for other devices to access, but I'm interested in what you get from something like Plex on top of this.
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For my use case, it doesn't matter much. I've got fast (nfs, which I should mention Kodi supports, unlike Plex) storage and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. But there are some instances where it is nice. For example, if you want to be able to remotely watch your content via a mobile device, being able to convert to lower bitrate that is acceptable on a mobile device would be great. A lot of people don't have very fast upstream on their home connections or don't want to waste their 4G/LTE data allowance if they can reduce it to an acceptable level. Also, being able to transcode to a format that worked natively in a browser, so when I'm in my office I didn't have to use the Kodi client to watch my content would be really nice. Multi-monitor setups and the Kodi client don't really play that well together, at least with my window manager (dwm).
Id like to subject the readers to an article that doesn't explain what they are talking about, or even why I should be excited. Well, more than one really, I have thousands of misspelled "articles" such as:
Loapet 2 is out. It's differant from Loapet 1 in that it now has a 2 instead of a 1, and that is just amazing folks. How does slashdot think this will affect them in the future??
The case for theft is weak at best. It presumes hypothetical revenue losses that companies would have garnered if people had bought the product or subscribed to the service. In most cases I've encountered, people have either been so bad off economically or insufficiently interested in the media that the choice was between viewing it for free or not viewing it. The presumption of theft is antithetical in a society where guilt must be proven rather than just presumed. That's why they use terms like 'the alleged theft' on the news where it hasn't been established, rather than assume legal liability for defamation of character. But corporate media are well aware that if they repeat something long enough, it will get stuck in the minds of their audience.
The presumed theft argument also presupposes fair courts and unbiased copyright laws, of which we have neither. U.S. courts are not courts of law, and copyright has been extended to roughly a century - an unreasonable and rather biased state of affairs in a society where information technology means the duration of media relevance decreases substantially rather than increases.
I perosnally use emby+kodi. Kodi doesn't have a plex media server alternative, but emby covers that pretty well.
Plex's proprietary nature bugged me, so emby filled that gap. Both do want you to use a premium online connected account, but plex was really obnoxious about it no matter what. emby is more subdued (though I haven't checked out plex lately).
Note I use it to manage my own rips, not so much online videos or streaming services.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
The transcode is more about the various embedded devices not having this or that codec available in hardware, and a puny cpu that can't use pure software codec..
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I thought people were using Plex now?
Wrong. Nobody uses Plex.
Personally I would say Kodi is more like a toy in comparison to Plex.
Kodi is a CLIENT that displays content stored on SERVERS.
Saying that Kodi is a toy for misunderstanding its role is like saying SSH sucks because the system your connecting to doesn't have enough ram to compile software.
Plex can transcode videos on the fly (or in the background as media is imported) so that only the server needs to be powerful enough to transcode instead of each player.
Or any PVR/NAS with interface supported by Kodi. (Essentially ALL of them of any consequence)
Plex is definitely supported on more devices. It can also put copies on a phone for mobile off-line viewing.
Kodi can be installed on a phone and access all the same shit as your Kodi client on the sub $50 SBC driving the 4k TV.
You can share libraries with other people (Say vacation photos with my dad, etc). It also has an option to put the server in the cloud. Plex also integrates with Trakt via plugin as well.
"The cloud" means Plex's servers. U need an account to do anything with Plex even if all you want is exclusively local.
Who knows? Who cares?
Plex can transcode videos on the fly (or in the background as media is imported) so that only the server needs to be powerful enough to transcode instead of each player.
Or any PVR/NAS with interface supported by Kodi. (Essentially ALL of them of any consequence)
Such as?
I have somewhere north of 3000 DVDs, BlueRays, HD-DVDs (remember HD-DVDs?), CDs, videotapes (both VHS and BetaMax (remember BetaMax?), audio cassettes and records stacked up under the house, just in case anybody asks me about this 3.4-odd terabytes of copyrighted content living on my NAS. Your argument is invalid.
Someone can steal physical media from you (ie, a licensed (or not) recording), but can't steal copyright (ie, intangible monopoly rights).
The definition of theft requires two elements:
It's easy to steal a physical medium, but uncommon to steal copyright. For this, you need enough clout to effectively ban the author from distributing the work on his/her own, then distribute it yourself.
A small-time crook may have luck with a fraudulent DMCA/DMCA-like takedown, but it's MAFIAA members who file takedowns in the millions, with no heed to their accuracy (or sometimes with intentional malice). They also don't follow laws they themselves bought when it comes to distributing works.
Thus, nearly all instances of copyright theft is committed by this small group of companies. They also have the gall to label their propaganda organizations with names such as FACT.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Everything on my server is H.264, which is playable by everything, given enough bandwidth. Transcoding, OTOH, for me is all about watching my stuff over a random hotel's WiFi, which involves sending a stream out your home upstream connection and hoping that the connection on the hotel end isn't throttled into uselessness. At home, it all travels over Gigabit Ethernet and even the 1st-generation Raspberry Pi supports H.264.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
I just checked the "kodi.tv" website, and for Windows 7, the 32-bit version is the ONLY one that is available!