K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 14.9.9 for PC Windows

- Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid.
- Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows.
- Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press.
- Don’t do a video chapter skip if there’s only one chapter.
- Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit.
- Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows.
- Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit.
- Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names.
- Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering.

# Changes:
- Start of integration of ADSP (Audio Digital Signal Processing) handling (no add-ons shipped yet)
- Improve image resizing and caching algorithm to improve image quality of images
- Added support for the musicbrainz “ARTISTS” tag in id3v2, ape, xiph.
- Add date added to music library and use it for sorting
- Support saving skin settings as add-on data instead of in guisettings.xml
- Image resource add-ons which provides common image libraries than can be used by several skins and add-ons.
- Don’t mess with the long and short date formats defined in the language files
- Win32: Proper 24.0/60.0 Hz refresh rate in fake fullscreen mode
- Add sort method for albums “artist / year”. This will sort the albums chronological per artist.
- Moved some add-on categories to “look and feel” in add-on manager
- Series recording added for PVR
- Add a “none” option for preferred subtitles
- Properly handle wired or bluetooth headsets on Android and only use PCM output
- Fix playback of VP9 and VC1 video codecs on Android
- Use best possible icons from other Android apps while browsing these in Kodi
- Enable true 1920×1080 output on AMLogic device without up-scaling
- Add Korean, Chinese and Czech keyboards
- Add multi-touch support for Linux platform
- Improve touch-screen keymapping
- The item that you had previously chosen will now be selected in the selection list instead of just starting at the top of the list
- Decouple Kodi and system volume on Android which removes the double audio volume slider
- Karaoke support has been completely removed as it wasn’t functional
- Further improve DX11 implementation in Windows
- iOS9 support
- Various PVR fixes and improvements
- Various improvements to the music section
- Three finger touchpad mapping in iOS to make room for new tablet gestures which will be available in Alpha 4 to complement existing tablet gestures.
- Kodi now supports being compiled with Xcode 7
- The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
- Add stereoscopic depth for Confluence skin
- Extended support for browsing movies by country and through UPnP as well as user-ratings which we be added in future versions.

* Fix some possible DVD menu problems
* Fix selection of stacked multiple ISO files (movie.disc1.iso, movie.disc2.iso, movie.disc3.iso etc)
* Fix navigation in EPG grid when there’s channels have no EPG data available
* Add missing MOOD tag scanning for FLAC/Ogg/Xiph/Vorbis, ASF and MP4/iTunes like other file format
* Use local icon stored icon instead of downloading a new one when for the add-on update notification
* Fix CPU feature check on Android for newer kernels
* Fix not correctly selecting items in a list when list is updated or going to next page
* Fix “renderloop” crashes on Windows
* Fix accidental repeated button presses with long-press feature
* Added French AZERTY keyboard

- Additional fixes done on saving setting when switching between different profiles.
- Increase time-out when searching for audio devices on Windows which solves some cases of Kodi not starting.
- Fix crash when unplugging USB devices.
- Fix crash when choosing Add Timer in EPG window.

- Improved: better remote keymap for longpress functionality.
- Fixed: correctly save skin setting when changing profiles.
- Fixed: prefer forced subtitle in settings was not working.
- Fixed: prevent crash on scanning certain mp3 files.
- Fixed: correct numeric input in some PVR windows.
- Fixed: better handling of some rotated recorded video files.
- Fixed: fixed non working deinterlacer for DXVA on Windows.
- Fixed: certain animated GIF files wouldn’t display correctly.
- Fixed: a variety of code fixes that are too technical to mention.

- Fixed: several credentials leaking in the debuglog
- Fixed: fix enabled status for audio DSP add-ons
- Fixed: stop scraping album overriding tags when override tags Disabled
- Fixed: Custom Music Node/Playlist Rule Based Queries
- Fixed: Input.Select for PVR fullscreen windows with JSON-RPC
- Fixed: ghost timers in EPG window
- Fixed: sidemenu now playing buttons in Confluence
- Fixed: mouse handling regression on Android
- Fixed: don’t use cached results for dir checks in our Python API
- Fixed: missing header label on clean EPG progress dialog
- Fixed: [configure] make sure the top kodi src dir is always in INCLUDES

* Fixed: non-working touch input in file manager
* Fixed: workaround for MySQL 5.7.x query optimizer changes
* Fixed: remove broken musicvideo scraper
* Fixed: don’t show “sync playback to display” option on Android as it’s not supported
* Fixed: fix codepage for Korean language input
* Fixed: added workaround for triggering repository updates during playback
* Fixed: fix crash in PVR calling the context menu
* Fixed: show OK dialog instead of empty list clicking on the update button in add-on information panel
* Fixed: several coverity and cppcheck code analysis problems
* Fixed: time sometimes jumped backwards on playing bluray m2ts files and fixes stutter on switching files
* Fixed: several issues regarding music library
* Fixed: timer and EPG handling in PVR
* Fixed: crashing on cleaning up events
* Fixed: don’t show brightness/contrast controls when using Android MediaCodec (Surface)
* Fixed: dont invalidate art for addons that are new or not updated since last fetch
* Fixed: Android stylus devices don’t respond on input
* Fixed: segfault when ADSP is enabled in settings
* Fixed: missing art when playing something from a music add-on
* Fixed: variety of cleanups and problems for AMLogic chips
* Fixed: fixed possible directory traversal bug due to insufficient url checking
* Fixed: handling of media key on Android
* Changed: add support for pre-gzipped addons.xml in repositories which should considerably reduce repository traffic
* Changed: remove “add source”from Programs section

- Fixed: Library export now shows the correct dialogs
- Fixed: Don’t include broken add-ons in the update panel which is accessed through add-on information
- Fixed: Next recording widget for PVR
- Fixed: Timer dialog fixes for PVR
- Fixed: Ignore volume changes on corked sink for Pulse
- Fixed: Don’t show repeating timers on PVR recording list
- Fixed: Redact file name in log output for smb://

- Fix non DVB subtitles
- Fix incompatible MySQL queries
- Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
- Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
- Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
- Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API
- Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
- Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
- Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
- Fix MicroDVD subtitles
- Fix subtitles positioning below video
- Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
- Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP
- Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
- Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
- Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
- Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
- Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
- Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
- Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
- Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
- Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
- Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
- Fix fallback for nb_no language
- Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
- Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view

- Fix non DVB subtitles
- Fix incompatible MySQL queries
- Improvements on PulseAudio for Linux
- Fix multi images in grouplists/layouts
- Updated PVR add-ons: Tvheadend HTSP and MythTV
- Fix refresh-rate switching on Android. This should improve on most devices like Nexus Player and NVIDIA SHIELD TV and others which use the Android API

- Fix file time used in scanning library which may speed up scanning times on 32bit platforms
- Fix video rewind on Windows. May still leave artifacts for some seconds.
- Fix continues check on system partitions on Android
- Fix MicroDVD subtitles
- Fix subtitles positioning below video
- Fix memory leak on opening Bluray menu for stream selection
- Fix default sorting for songs over UPnP

- Updated taglib that fixes a crash when playing flac files
- Fix volume adjustment for XBOX controllers
- Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch
- Fixes freeze on win32 on away mode
- Fix crash on osx 10.7 when trying to resolve hdd names
- Fix Amlogic zoom problems on Android
- Set default screen region for dvb subs (wrong placed subtitles)
- Fix missing lyrics from tag when playing from musicdb url
- Properly set the time format when setting/changing regions
- Fix playback problems on AMLogic after ffwd or skip
- Fix fallback for nb_no language
- Fix empty LatestAlbum.Artist
- Fix watched flag in Confluence media info 3 view

- Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
- Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
- Fix stuttering in PVR windows
- Fix holding lock while querying PVR backend
- Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS 5.1 devices
- Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
- Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
- Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
- Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint for OSX
- Update label color for sliderex controls
- CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
- Fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
- FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
- Handle startup splash as regular window
- Fix linkage for VTB framework for iOS < 6 – fixes VTB on iOS
- Fix broken native keyboard on iOS 5.1.1 devices
- Fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml
- Make some virtual filesystems available when no network is available yet
- Fix formatting on mysql queries that could cause crash on update
- Only set mouse wheel control spin and slider controls when they are actually focusses
- Respect view mode changes of EPG when controlling number of EPG updates
- Handle startup splash as regular window which prevent problems if PVR or masterlock is used as startup window
- Fix watched flag not displaying if item is also resume-able
- Remove some logging on exiting that could crash on exit in some cases
- Fix overlapping subtitles in some cases

- Flush renderbuffers when flushing video player
- Fix broken network.bandwidth setting
- [pvr] fix stuttering introduced
- Unsigned apps are not working on jailbroken iOS5.1 devices
- Add installed languages to the list of possible stream languages
- Ensure that file descriptor for logfile is NULL’ed
- [pvr] fix holding lock while querying backend
- Fixes a crash when trying do delete a file in filemanager
- Reimplement Cocoa_GetVolumeNameFromMountPoint
- [guilib] update label color for sliderex controls
- CProgressJob: fix crash in DoModal
- [pvr] fix missing return in CGUIWindowPVRBase::OnBack
- FFmpeg: Bump to 2.6.4
- Handle startup splash as regular window
- [ios] – fix linkage for VTB framework for ios < 6 – fixes vtb on ios
- [ios] – fix broken native keyboard on ios 5.1.1 devices
- fix wrong navigation in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml