K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 14.9.9 for PC Windows

# The features
* Stereoscopic 3D Rendering
* Improved Touchscreen Support
* Improved UPnP capabilities
* Dramatic Audio Engine Improvements
* Settings Improvements
* Making Subtitle Search Better
* An Extended Python and JSON-RPC API for developers
* Update to FFMPEG v1.2 which we use for audio/video playback
* Stereo audio can now be upmixed to 5.1 and sent through optical/SPDIF devices
* Various visual changes throughout the skin which should improve usability and logic.
* Improve the handling of subtitle downloading and selection
* Extend and improve the User-interface Engine which developers use to create a variety of skins to be used.
* Drop of support for Windows XP.
* List of improvements and fixes is too vast

# Fixes included:
- OSX 10.9 Maverick fixes that appeared when it was release
- update PVR addons
- several PVR related bugs
- memory leaks
- audio channel mapping
- possible crash on progress dialog

Fixes:
- XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
- XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
- Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
- Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
- Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
- Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
- iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
- XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
- Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
- Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
- Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
- Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
- AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
- Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms

# Fixes:
* XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
* XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
* Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
* Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
* Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
* Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
* iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
* XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
* Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
* Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
* Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
* Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
* AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
* Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms

- HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available)
- Live TV and PVR support
- h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
- 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
- Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types and more interesting and complex skins
- Support for the Raspberry PI
- Initial support for the Android platform
- Improved AirPlay support across all platforms, including AirPlay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
- Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
- Advanced Filtering in the library
- Video library tags to complement movie sets
- Advanced UPnP sharing
- Default video languages now match the language being used by XBMC
- Translations now powered by Transifex

- Stability fixes.

# Fixes
- Include resolution of incorrectly disabling audio devices due to faulty detection, which should resolve all or most “audio suddenly stops altogether” complaints
- Numerous other stability enhancements and minor fixes.

- HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
- Live TV and PVR support
- h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
- 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
- Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
- Support for the Raspberry PI
- Initial support for the Android platform
- Improved Airplay support across all platforms
- Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
- Advanced Filtering in the library
- Advanced UPnP sharing
- Translations now powered by Transifex

- Users of Android 4.2 should now be able to install and run XBMC for Android.
- The upgrade path of Windows users has been a little tricky. Users may upgrade to beta and discover the audio no longer works. This is due to a bit of trickiness with the AudioEngine upgrade.
- For those Windows users who find themselves without sound, the simple fix is to go to System->system->Audio Output and switch WASAPI to DirectSound. Users doing a clean install of XBMC for Windows should have no problem.
- PVR Addons have been included with XBMC for Windows, matching up with most other ports.
- We are still only partially complete on translations for numerous languages, including Romanian, Japanese, Estonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Hindi, and more.

- Controller Support
- Audio Fixes
- Other Fixes

- HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
- Live TV and PVR support
- h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
- 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
- Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
- Support for the Raspberry PI
- Initial support for the Android platform
- Improved Airplay support across all platforms
- Advanced Filtering in the library
- Advanced UPnP sharing
- Translations now powered by Transifex

# Addons Framework, API, and Manager
* Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
* Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
* Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
* Extended Addons API to support adding extension points for Service Addons (xbmc.service)
* Added support for Addon Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions
* Added the ability to search Addons in the Addons-Manager
# GUI Engine
* Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
* Added option for auto login of a specific selected user profile (good for kiosk mode)
* Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()
* Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list
* Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube)
* Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
* Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
* Added Dirty Region support to reduce CPU usage
* Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage)
# Playback:
* Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
* Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting
* Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
* Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles
* Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles
* Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles
* Gave external subtitles preference over internal subtitles
* Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's EDL (Edit Decision List) format
* Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping
* Added support for Slingbox
* Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
* Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
* Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions)
* Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support
* Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native
* Added support for NFS virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms)
* Added support for AFP (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Added Airplay support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms)
* Added Airplay support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Added Audio/L16 support for better DLNA UPnP client compliance
* Improved UPnP Renderer
* Added a slider for volume amplification and dynamic range compression during video playback
* Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes
* Extended PathSubstitution from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases
* Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux)
* Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple
* Added DXVA Deinterlacing support
# Library:
* Combined Files and Library mode for videos
* Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command
* Added a "Play from here" context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library
* Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos
* Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings" after being set
* Added disc stub support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc.
* Added support for scraping Movie Collections, along with the ability to toggle collections on and off
# Scrapers:
* Improve TheMovieDB.org movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
* Added movie set scraping'
* Improve TheTVDB.com (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
* Improve Freebase (English) music scraper
# Skins:
* Confluence: Home screen switched to horizontal layout
* Confluence: Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it
* Confluence: Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu
* Confluence: Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
# Other:
* Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once
* Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows
* Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver
* Added support for sorting depending on current locale
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default)
* Added support for batch requests to the JSON-RPC API
* Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API
* Make JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details)
* Cleanup and improve JSON-RPC API
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by JSON-RPC (default is 9090)
* Improve the features of the default web interface
* Removed Weather from XBMC core and switched to Weather Underground as the default weather provider addon
* Added weather lookup by IP
# Linux Specific:
* Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
* Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux
* Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices
* Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers
* Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control
* Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
* Provide JSON-RPC server over Bluetooth
# iOS Specific:
* Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding "XBMC for iOS" to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems)
* Added support for Apple A4 (ARM) iDevices, inc. Apple TV 2G, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, the iPad (effectively all jailbroken iOS products)
* Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API
* Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS
* Added retina support
* Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
* Added a APT repository for Apple TV, and Cydia with packages for iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and iPad
# Mac OS X Specific:
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier
# Windows Specific:
* Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows
* Added DXVA video rendering option
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier

- video sync bug introduced has been resolved

* Given preference to external subtitles over internal subtitles
* Updated a number of XBMC translations for final release
* Resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues
* Allowed specified movie sets to be sorted by title, rather than year, without changing the default sort order on other sets.

- Fixed playlist issues
- Altered some misbehaving Library buttons
- Provided a little more control over the way movie sets are scraped
- Cleaned up numerous other small bugs