Kodi 15 "Isengard" Has Been Released, Install In Ubuntu/Linux Mint Via PPA



Kodi media center, formerly known as XBMC Media Center, is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform media player feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Currently Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations.

Notable changes in Kodi 15.0:

A new chapter selector window - Allows you to visually browse and select chapters from mkvs and other containers that support chapters.
Adaptive seeking (aka Skip Steps) – The more times you press a button to seek in a period of time, the larger the jump forward or backward will be.
Audio and Subtitle Lists – For content that includes multiple audio and subtitle choices, you can select from a full list of choices, rather than manually searching through a spinner.
Language Add-ons and Expanded International Preferences – Now language translations aren’t dependent upon release, but get regularly updated to all users as the add-ons themselves update. Additionally, you now have total control over date, time, temperature and more displayed formats.
Improved Add-on Manager – The add-on manager has now been reworked to help make finding the add-ons you are looking for easier.
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”
Ubuntu 12.04 support dropped in PPA
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
And many more fixes & changes.
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How to Install Kodi 15.0 Isengard:
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Kodi 15.0 Available for Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x/17/13/other related Ubuntu derivatives, Kodi 14.2 Helix is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 13
To install Kodi 15.0 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi