K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 14.9.9 for PC Windows

# Improvements include:
- ffmpeg 2.6.3 update
- Improved Closed Captioning support in Live TV
- Fixed music video queuing
- Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
- Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
# Changes :
- Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required and ATV2 support discontinued
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
- Ubuntu 12.04 support dropped in PPA
- On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
- Removal of AFP filesystem support
- Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
- Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

- Fix endless loop in PVR section which causes high CPU load
- Fix crash on opening conext menu item
- Fix sorting by episodes
- Don’t try to use hardware decoding for h264/10bit video files (don’t confuse with h265/10bit)
- Fix playback of certain HEVC files
- Avoid freezing/deadlock in peripheralmanager
- Fix genres in smartplaylists
- Fix grouping by artists in smartplaylists
- Fix video calibration for Android
- Make sure to download the OBB file when Play Store doesn’t
- Some other technical changes….

- Minimal 10.7 Lion 64-bit required on Mac OSX
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required and no more ATV2
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required on Android
- Various improvements in PVR section. This includes skin support and new PVR add-ons
- Complete video database clean-up session on stored data (no data will be lost). This may take some time on first run
- ffmpeg 2.6.2 update which bring better codec compatibility and playback
- Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
- Fix the queuing of music videos
- Improvement of FF/RW (fast-forward / rewinding) of videos
- Improved logic to make PVR, audio encoders and audio decoders optional
- Fix of grouping movie sets when navigating in smartplaylists
- External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
- Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
- Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
- Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements for videos and music
- Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
- Fix subtitles showing on top of each other in certain cases
- Reworked add-on manager that should give a better overview
- Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
- Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
- Show progress for add-on repository update
- Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular Kodi releases
- Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade to prevent delay in getting better compatible add-ons or skins
- Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
- Improvement of installing new skins selection
- Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with iOS or Android remotes loosing connections
- Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
- On Android the system now handles the volume instead of Kodi
- Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
- Refreshrate switching on Android 5.0 opr higher (your device must have the proper implementation of these features to support it)
- 4K@60Hz playback on the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV
- Reworked the storage provider on Android. This fixes several problems with mounting points for storage.
- Remove default 250ms audio delay on Android for AMLogic chipsets. You may need to adjust the delay again
- Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. So called Audio encoders/decoders
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Removal of Tuxbox support. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
- Removal of AFP filesystem support
- Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
- Vast amount of possible memory leaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues have been fixed
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

- Bump libCEC to 3.3.0 which fixes a variety of problems
- Reworked the storage provider on Android. This fixes several problems with mounting points for storage.
- Fix the queuing of music videos
- Improvement to FF/RW of videos
- Improvement to picons in livetv
- Prevention of clipping of rotated text, which happened in certain skins
- Improved logic to make PVR, audio encoders and audio decoders optional.
- Audio decoder and PVR add-ons are now disabled by default. When you want to use these you need to enable them manually.
- Fix launching of add-ons from the add-on information dialog
- Show progress for add-on repository update
- Properly fall back to the new language files location
- Fix of grouping movie sets when navigating in smartplaylists
- Fix wrong icon showing in popup dialogs
- Restore volume after pass-through on Android
- Combine previously split GUI text into a single string. This improves ability to properly translate them.
- Included newer version of several PVR add-ons
- Fix incorrect fall-back language after we made them into add-ons
- Fix 8channel audio conversion on Windows
- Try to detect supported sample rates on Android
- Do a complete video database clean-up session to remove leading/trailing spaces and invalid characters
- Prevent inserting leading/trailing spaces and invalid characters on new video scans
- Add season and episode labels to PVR section
- Fix possible font corruption
- Remove default 250ms audio delay on Android for AMLogic chipsets
- Fix subtitles showing on top of each other in certain cases

- Reworked add-on manger that should give a better overview
- Chapter selection window that shows thumbs on where to skip to in the video
- Easier to navigate audio and subtitle selection list
- Addition of language add-ons which allow us to update the User-Interface text outside of regular releases
- Expansion of international options like time and date format, temperature and speed units.
- Skip steps (step forward & backwards) improvements.
- Tuxbox removal. Users of Enigma2 boxes can use the VUPlus PVR add-on
- Split PVR add-ons into separate projects which should allow updates through repo in the future
- Fix season art scraping on newly added seasons
- Immediately fetch updates from repository after Kodi version upgrade
- Improvement of installing new skins selection
- Remove legacy code pre-Frodo 11.0
- Add jump to first unwatched in TV section
- Remove certain codecs from our core code and made add-ons out of them. Audio encoders/decoders
- Removal of AFP filesystem support
- Windows DXVA HEVC hardware decoding support if driver and hardware support exist
- Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
- Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
- Improve webserver caching control
- External subtitles over UPnP can be enabled through the settings section
- Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
- Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
- Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
- Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
- ffmpeg 2.6.2 update
- Removal remaining SDL code which was used in some areas.
- Changed code to C++11
- Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minor issues fixed
- Rescrape season art for newly added seasons
- Upgrade included webserver which should fix issues with remotes loosing connections
- On Android the system now handles the volume
- General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
- General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features
# Mac OSX
- Minimal 10.7 Lion required
- Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
- Minimal MacOSX 10.10 SDK
# iOS
- Minimal iOS 5.1 required
- Minimal iOS 8.1 SDK
- No more ATV2 builds
# Android
- Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
- Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
- Removed the need for root/SU on Android. Some hardware/firmware might not like that. Please contact your hardware supplier
- Android PIL packaging fixed

# Fixes
* Fix: Application stopped responding on Windows
* Fix: Gap-less playback on MP3
* Fix: Playback of rtmp protocol
* Fix: Scanning of newly added episodes
* Fix: Fix multipath source scanning
* Fix: Loading external subtitles in some cases
* Fix: packaging of PIL module on Android. This fixes some script error when using weather add-on
* Fix: Fix video playback on all platform after refresh rate change
* Fix: Various bugs that were present in PVR add-ons.
* Feature: Bump OSX SDK to 10.10

# Fixes
* Fix: incorrect video screensize on Android AML devices
* Fix: potential segfault when silencing audio
* Fix: do not skip streaminfo if format is not know.
* Fix: DXVA flickering on AMD
* Fix: prevent possible over-flow in ALSA
* Fix: possible sorting problems in library
* Fix: possible problem in library navigation
* Fix: don’t scroll text when it’s set to not do it
* Fix: scroll text if it’s too long on spinner controls
* Fix: don’t overlap PVR search labels
* Fix: bug in DLNA client string on iOS
* Fix: updated several PVR add-ons
* Fix: remember played state of video when started from recently added
* Fix: correct vsync on OSX
* Fix: broken keyboard input
* Fix: prevent crash on circular dependencies of add-ons
* Fix: large file support on Android
* Fix: random exiting on Android x86 builds (Nexus Player for example)

See http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-unwinds/ for full details.

- Bump FFmpeg to 2.4.4
- Fix problem with setting content on new and existing video sources
- Fix spinner in video settings for choosing hardware or software decoding
- Fix recording history in PVR
- Separate sort order in PVR window for each directory
- Fix PVR preview video scaling for AMLCodec on Android
- Fix restart option on Win 8.1
- Fix crashes on certain Intel GPU when playing video
- Fix crashes on certain videos on Android 5.0 devices (Nexus Player and ADT-1)
- Fix LPCM (audio/L16) streaming via UPnP
- Use correct art type when appending art to item lists
- Fix python PIL package on Windows that caused crash on weather add-on
- Updated GUI translation files