With that said, lets take a look at some of the features that come with Kodi 14.0.

The use of HEVC and VP9 could result in dramatically smaller video files sizes with exactly the same level of quality.

Users with particularly large libraries or interest in 4K video may be especially likely to appreciate this update.

This means most low power systems, such as those operating Android or iOS, may struggle compared to the heftier HTPCs or Intel NUCs and ZOTAC ZBOXes that are running desktop and laptop processors.

On the input side, library scanning is receiving a massive speed boost, which should make the initial scan on Android and iOS devices quite a bit more spritely.

Kodi is now significantly more compatible with servers like PlayOn and MediaBrowser, as client-related bugs have been dealt with.

Further, communication between Kodi UPnP clients and Kodi UPnP servers continues to improve with proper or additional support for categories like date added, ratings, votes, and artwork, along with sorting for those new categories.

UPnP search functions are also slowly working their way into Kodi.

First, users can now prevent add-ons from updating without a forced update, prevent add-on update notifications, or simply continue to work with add-ons auto-updating as they do today.

To change add-on update settings, visit the Add-ons folder in System Settings; then, if you are using Confluence, open the side panel by clicking the left button or arrow on your keyboard or remote.

It is now possible to change the layout to a variety of other language options.

To do so, visit the International section of the Appearance folder in System Settings and select Keyboard layouts.

Pro-tip: If you are an English speaker living in the US, Australia, or New Zealand, you can also select a version of English that better suits your spelling style from the Language portion of the International section.).

On the iOS side, Airplay, which was fairly substantially broken by the update to iOS 7, appears to be almost entirely fixed on every platform save Android, which lacks certain software support, making Airplay playback only partially fixed on that platform.

Additionally, support for the Freescale i.MX6 SystemOnChip has been added.

Additionally, users of Kodi for Linux on Intel devices such as the NUC and Chromebox will now have hardware deinterlacing of Live TV and other interlaced content thanks to Kodis new implementation of VAAPI video post processing for Intel graphics.

Also, American PVR users, specifically, may be happy to learn that Kodi 14 finally introduces support for ATSC sub-channels.

Kodi 14 Install This Releases

When you install this releases, your library and add-ons will be moved to Kodi, making reverting back to 13.2 fairly difficult.

As such, it is recommended that you back up your library as well as your settings before installing Kodi.

Kodi 14 Skin Has A

If so, you need to either switch to a new skin, or see if your skin has a Helix update.

After you have copied Kodi to the Applications folder, you will need to right click or two finger click Kodi from within the Applications folder and select Open and then accept the warning.

You should only need to do this the first time you run Kodi.

In very rare cases Windows users may experience a Kodi crash.

We hope to have these issues resolved by the inevitable Kodi 14.1 release.

Kodi 14 For Mac