Kodi News: DevCon 2026 - Barcelona Revisited - Part II
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Announcing the release of Kodi 22 “Piers” Alpha 3! Usual words - the step from 21 to 22 is a major release, but it’s also an Alpha at this stage, so you’re going to get some bugs as well as funky new features. That is, of course, a major part of the point of early release software: please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across. Okay, what’s new in this version? Changelog Release highlights Added support for taglines in
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So, here we are, back in the roo atm after a day of sidebar meetings, coding, hacking, experimenting, and general conferencing. Time for some more structured sessions, starting with some of our partner projects. Chewitt started us off with an overview of LibreELEC: hardware updates and changes, new chip set support, some challenges with older SoCs, plans for standardising e.g. kernel trees more, and so on. He also covered topics such as the challenges around supporting set-top box DVB tuners, p
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Well, hello everyone! It’s that time of year again, when your favourite development team rouse themselves from their long winter slumber and emerge, blinking in the light, to reconnect with their fellow creatures. Welcome to DevCon 2026! We’re coming to you this year from about an hour outside Barcelona, which makes this a return visit. Not that it matters, I guess; you probably know how this works by now, so let’s get straight in … As seems to be tradition now, we kicked off with a round of r
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Currently working out a series of videos for theater intros. Using Unreal Engine. Slow going but I hope to make one for every genre. At least I have one. I customized the Regal Cinemas 1990's roller coaster to my theater. Used some AI to change some wording in the narration and Davinci resolve to edit the text on the marque scroller. Gruelling work as unreal Engine is hard to learn. Nothing is straight forward. Everything is a task. But I hope in the end it looks great. Doing an old West town
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Hello, We’ve run into a portability issue when creating sequences in PreShow Experience on a desktop or non-media-server player. Currently, PreShow stores all media references as absolute file paths tied to the original machine. This means that if we move a PreShow project folder to another server or workstation, the sequence breaks because the media paths still point to the original device location. This creates unnecessary extra steps when deploying sequences for: Short films Theatre intros
So, here we are, back in the roo atm after a day of sidebar meetings, coding, hacking, experimenting, and general conferencing. Time for some more structured sessions, starting with some of our partner projects.
Chewitt started us off with an overview of LibreELEC: hardware updates and changes, new chip set support, some challenges with older SoCs, plans for standardising e.g. kernel trees more, and so on. He also covered topics such as the challenges around supporting set-top box DVB tuners, plus deprecated video drivers and implications for users. Beyond that, the project is healthy, with a broadly stable user base and positive finances.
Keeping with third-party projects, Flole next gave a brief update on Tvheadend, mostly around development status, plans for a new interface, CI/build process, and a few others.
(As an aside, both projects have recently celebrated milestone anniversaries: LibreELEC is ten years old, and Tvheadend has just passed 20. Happy birthday to both projects!).
And to collect the set, samnazarko then took the floor to talk about OSMC. As a turnkey, commercial consumer device, things are going well, although there’s pressure from RAM prices as you’d probably expect. He talked about the challenges around TV-led playback versus player-led (basically, where’s the decoding being done), and took a long detour through HDR technologies, colour spaces and tone mapping.
Next up, sarbes spoke about upcoming UI changes, mostly in the sense of textures and component rendering. These will deliver significant performance gains on low-end and embedded devices, and anything using a heavier, multi-layer skin.
razzee then took us through some website updates. These aren’t really user-facing, but shouldd give us some performance benefits as well as security improvements: library updates, a new framework, and updates to the CMS itself. We also discussed future options and suggestions for the site.
This conversation segued into blog/website workflow, how we could streamline that or open it up to more contributions, and how our AI tools could perhaps help with some contect-aware automation..
Juddering towards the end of the conference, jernej talked us through Linux colour APIs, which expose hardware capabilities to help with HDR on this OS.
And that’s about it. Thanks to everyone for attending, and, equally, thanks to everyone reading this for the support. You are the people who make Kodi what it is.
See you in 2028 … probably 😉
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