KODI - ZDMC - MATRIX 19.5 - NEXUS 20 - 21

Zidoo DOES support Kodi with the Zidoo player though? You have to use ZDMC. Or are you saying that you rather have the real legit newest Kodi player that uses the Zidoo player? Not sure what you're saying exactly.

 

No, it only supports ZDMC aka Kodi 19.4. Which would have been fine when I purchased the product if it said "will NOT support KODI updates past 19.4".

 

Okay that makes sense. Does it really matter though? What do you need from Kodi that version 19.4 doens't have? I am not super familiar with Kodi so i'm just curious. I juse use HT4.0 and it's fine. I use ZDMC for older avi files and anything that the zidoo player can't handle.

 

Multiple Instances of Binary Add-ons
This allows Kodi to load multiple instances of a binary add-on. For example: TVHeadend users can now run more than one instance of the add-on to connect to multiple back-end TVHeadend servers, with individual settings like channel groups and hidden channels maintained per add-on instance. @AlwinEsch was the developer behind a lot of this, with support from @ksooo. Your favourite binary add-on may not support this capability yet, but we hope add-on developers introduce this into their projects soon.

AV1 Video Support
Several Kodi platforms now allow hardware decoding of AV1 media. The Inputstream API has been updated to support AV1 and this allows add-ons using inputstream.adaptive to play AV1 streams.

Subtitles Rework
Massive rework of the subtitle system was undertaken by @CastagnaIT making subtitle formats more consistent for development and maintenance, and enabling features that were previously not possible. Kodi now supports dynamic positioning of fonts, changing of border and background colours, subtitle positioning, improved multi-language support, and more. If you are a regular user of subtitles, jump on in and check it all out.

Game (libretro) Savestate Support
The GSOC 2020 project of @NikosSiak received some polishing touches before finally (!) being merged. With mentoring from @VelocityRa and @gusandrianos, and the assistance of @garbear, this has been a long time coming. This feature allows you to save game state at any time, even if games do not provide native savestate features themselves. Great for gamers, and times when you aren't watching Videos with Kodi

Windows HDR Support
Full HDR support for the Windows Desktop platform has been implemented by @thexai along with many improvements throughout the Windows (DXVA/2) video pipeline. HDR is not available on non-Desktop, i.e. UWP Store (Xbox) versions. Improvements to allow more accurate ACES Filmic and HABLE tonemapping make even SDR video look better, and these capabilities are implemented for both UWP and Desktop versions of Kodi.

NFSv4 Support
Changes to allow NFSv4 support were implemented by @lrusak as previously we only supported NFSv3. There are some caveats with this (you must explicitly select either NFSv4 or NFSv3 for a source). Give it a try!

Context Menu Consistency
Improvements to right-click/long-press context menu handling were made by @ksooo in numerous areas. This makes the function of the context menu much more consistent over different windows, and enabled some new capabilities like the playback of albums directly from widgets, series resume, etc. to be added.


Biggest feature for me is support for more advanced skins which makes tags like HDR 10/DV support for your library. Then you have Kodi 22 when it's released.

 

I'm assuming these are improvements Kodi made after version 19.4?

 

Yeah, we need that...oh, wait...

 

I'm glad of all the features of this release and in the future you're happy with using a release thats soon 2 years old. In case you didn't get it, i'm being sarcastic.

Yeah not to mention the new skins that are out for nexus

 

Agreed, the new skinning engine has some upside to it. ZDMC is my daily driver now, and I've got it configured exactly how I want it.

An update would be nice though..

 

ZDMC 20.1 would be great!

 

So now that it is out, does it work as expected?

 

ZDMC based on KODI 20.1 is here for everybody still waiting.
Click here.

 

Wow.

Update - works a treat. Thanks Zidoo.

 

I can't wait do install it later tonight.

Do you notice any performance gain compared to 19.4 @Oldpainless ?

 

Yeah, feels a lot snappier - happy chappy.

Would be awesome if @bob could look at adding audio/music playback via the interanl Zidoo app. but, if not possible, no biggy, as I'm grateful for this latest version.

 

Oh boy thats awesome to hear.

I see that you are using the Arctic: Zephyr 2 - Resurrection skin too, have you ever compared to one of the other Arctic skins like Reloaded, Horizon or Horizon 2?

 

For me, the other skins aren't as good (live TV guide being just one example (for use with Official Kodi video addons)) or as snappy on the Zidoo, and I have Arctic: Zephyr 2 - Resurrection setup exactly how I want it, so as they say, if it ain't broke....

 

Okay. I'm crying...
SO HAPPY! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Zidoo with Kodi FULL SUPPORT... THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR.

 

What benefits do you get out of 20.1 over 19.4 other than a bit of speed? Just wondering what people are doing with it.

 

Kodi skin makes my cheap TV looks more expensive! Lol... And a faster and responsive 20.1 improve the experience. Addons of course! You can also customize it the way you wanted. You can't missed your fav TV shows with Trakt Calendar. AC3 Transcoding solved my problem with AAC 5.1 audio. Audio quality in Kodi have more punch with my 2018 model 5.1 soundbar.

EDIT: I also have issue when watching HDR specially DV in ZDMC 19.4 which is my Z9X automatically restart. Wish that it's already fix in 20.1

 

See post re trailers "if" anyone has issues:

http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?threads/zdmc-matrix-v20.95414/#post-191416