Kodi Matrix 19.1 Release

• Fixed: HDR metadata is now detected in VP9 profile 2 streams and can be used on platforms that support HDR passthrough or tone mapped when playing this kind of video.

Discs

• Fixed: playback of optical DVDs in Linux
• Fixed: BD-J Blu-ray chapter skipping via remotes/keyboard

PVR

• Fixed: context menu not accessible in PVR Guide window when using very basic remote to control Kodi
• Fixed: client channel name and number not persisted when changed
• Fixed: play count and resume position of recordings lost after Kodi restart
• Fixed: crash while browsing the EPG when MySQL is used as EPG database
• Fixed: next recording on … label time is not localized in Estuary Timer/Timer rules window
• Fixed: channel manager does not rename backend channel
• Fixed: playing archived program not selected when opening the Guide window
• Fixed: GUI not updated on removal/insert/hide/unhide of channel groups
• Updated: improved look of PVR windows in Estuary

Music Library

• Fixed: issue with music from cuesheets where only the first track was being added to the library on rescanning, with the rest being deleted

JSON-RPC

• Fixed: PVR – Reintroduced broadcast properties ‘hastimer’, ‘hastimerrule’, ‘hasrecording’, ‘recording’
• Fixed: PVR – Reintroduced channel property ‘isrecording’

Subtitles

• Fixed: detection of system fonts (directwrite) on windows for ASS subtitles
• Fixed: detection of user fonts (in userdata/fonts) for ASS subtitles
• Fixed: rendering of semi-transparent ASS subtitles on Wayland

GUI/Interface

• Fixed: media flagging for DVD/BluRay

Web Interface

• Updated: Chorus2 based on community contributions

Filesystem

• Updated: enable file caching by default for network filesystems
• Updated: improve file cache error handling

Network

• Updated: improved reliability for HTTP and NFS network filesystems

Windows specifics

• Added: support for WS-Discovery protocol that enables locating SMB servers and browsing shared folders using SMBv3.
• Added: debug Info OSD Video. Extends current Debug Info Player (Ctrl+Shift+O) with new video-only info (Alt+O)
• Fixed: with some unusual streams, incorrect HDR metadata could be passed (HDR10 passthrough).
• Fixed: green screen on systems with old HW (DX feature level 9.1) playing 10-bit videos.
• Fixed: black screen with Software render method and with DXVA2 hardware acceleration disabled.
• Fixed: green screen when playing the menu of some DVDs (MPEG2 SD only).
• Fixed: credentials being requested for anonymous SMB shares
• Updated: VC runtimes included in the installer to add compatibility with VS2019 and VS2017 at the same time.

Android specifics

• Fixed: SMB shares mounted on system-level not visible in Kodi
• Fixed: SMB shares labeled with cryptic numbers (UUID) instead of actual disk name

Xbox specifics

• This version also brings 19.1 to the Xbox – while 19.0 has been in the Microsoft Store since launch, this was Windows-only while we found a way to adequately test the new release on Xbox. We’ve fixed that now, so Xbox users will automatically upgrade from 18.9 to 19.1 if you’ve got auto-update enabled. It’s worth mentioning that there’s a known memory limitation – present in 18.x as well – that causes Xbox application crashes with 4k content, so please be aware.