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diff --git a/cmake/cpack/deb/NEWS.Debian b/cmake/cpack/deb/NEWS.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..034774b --- /dev/null +++ b/cmake/cpack/deb/NEWS.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +@CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME@ (@CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_VERSION@) @DISTRO_CODENAME@; urgency=high + * Kodi Krypton (v17.0) will have an awesome new default skin, Estuary. + However the vast improvements are deep in the bowels of Kodi core code. + . + Since the beginning of XBMC back in the days while it was running on + the XBOX there was something like DVDPlayer. As the name probably + implies it was used to playback DVD discs/files. During the years this + DVDPlayer was improved and patched up to stay within modern day + standards of video playback expectancy. However it became clear that + for the future a major overhaul and rewrite was needed to keep up and + be future proof. As such the developers who did the AudioEngine in v12 + picked up this job and have now transformed it into VideoPlayer. + . + Together with some platform developers they ripped out the old + DVDPlayer code, chopped it into pieces, put it in the blender, picked + the needed pieces and put it back in without breaking the rest of Kodi. + This certainly wasn’t an easy job as DVDPlayer was like the bottom + block of a Jenga tower that needed to be replaced while still being + entangled throughout the whole tower. It had it’s tentacles in parts + of the code where it shouldn’t have been in the first place. Over a + year ago work started on getting this untangled and made ready to + be replaced by the new implementation, VideoPlayer. + + -- h.udo <hudokkow@gmail.com> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:34:11 +0000 |