Install Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 "Isengard" on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA

Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 "Isengard" is releasedm, you can install on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04 Derivative System via PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Important changes:

• * Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps”
  
• * Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets
• * Improve webserver caching control
• * External subtitles over UPnP
• * Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library”
• * Allow different sort orders for different sort methods
• * Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it
• * Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV
• * ffmpeg 2.5.4 update
• * Remove remaining SDL code
• * Minimal Mac OSX 10.7 Lion required
• * Only OSX 64-bit builds provided by us, so no more 32bit builds
• * Minimal iOS 5.1 required
• * iOS 8.1 SDK & MacOSX 10.10 SDK
• * Minimum Android 4.2 Jelly Bean MR1 required
• * Android API 17 as minimum with SDK 14 and NDK 10e
• * Removed the need for root/SU on Android
• * Android PIL packaging fixed
  
• * Changed code to  C++11
• * Variety of memleaks, segfaults, crashes and minors fixed
• * General improvements regarding code stability and performance in all areas
• * General code clean-up in all areas to simplify adding future features

Install Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 "Isengard" on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04 Derivative System via PPA :
 
To install a beta/unstable version of XBMC/Kodi you must first add the unstable repository, then install XBMC. Use ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly for nightly builds and ppa:team-xbmc/unstable for beta builds.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Upgrading

To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Be it music, videos, online streams, pictures, online radios or optical discs, Kodi can handle them all. Besides the fact that it’s totally free, it can also run on Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures. If you want to make your own home theater, be sure to download and install the Kodi software today, as it might become your only media player and/or entertainment hub.