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XBMC and Kodi project developers officially announces that first beta version of Kodi 14.0 codenamed "Helix" soon going to available for download. Since the previous fourth alpha release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" the developers consistently making some changes and improvements before the final beta released. The developers already freezes the features of beta release but they still find something important which they want to introduce in this release.

According to official announcement, the first beta release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" comes with support for Localised keyboard along with faster channel switching for PVR. The Kodi 14.0 Beta for Windows also receives DXVA-HQ scaling for videos. Well this feature might cause some issues for certain video cards, so for better safety you could enable this via advancedsettings.xml file.

The Kodi 14.0 "Helix" beta release also includes addition of MMAL decoder and MMAL renderer for Raspberry Pi along with Raspberry Pi audio resampling which supports high quality re-sampling, format conversation and up/down mixing. Some of the improvements are made in file handling system which mainly done for better stability and possible error handling.

Among other features, this beta release of Kodi 14.0 also includes dolby atmos surround sound, extends JSON-RPC, update Windows power management functions and fixes iOS 8 runtime issues. This release also includes several bug fixes like fixed T9/SMS text input, fixed non loading of external subtitles for ISO files and BluRay directories and fix for importing some add-on modules that depended on other modules. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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