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Oct 31, 2016 22:50 GMT  ·  By

This past weekend, the Kodi development team was quite busy, and it looks like they've pushed yet another Beta towards the upcoming and highly anticipated Kodi 17 "Krypton" open source and cross-platform media center.

Kodi is the number one media center application right now, and not because it's free, open source, and supported on so many popular platforms, including GNU/Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, but because it offers a wide range of powerful settings and it's easy to set up and customize to your liking.

The fifth Beta of the forthcoming major Kodi 17 "Krypton" series is here one week after the Beta 4 build, and it promises to polish the Android support for addressing a possible crash that could have occurred when Android apps had missing icons, as well as to add back seeking to a certain time on video files, using numeric input.

"The changes for this fifth beta are the result of the continuous effort from the developers, either from inside the team or outside to get v17 into final release shape. and any outside. We sure would like to thank every one involved with either development, testing or simply helping out others with question," said Martijn Kaijser.

HTTP Live Streaming now works as expected, other bugs fixed

Apart from the changes mentioned above, Kodi 17 Beta 5 fixes the playback of HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) streams, addresses an issue that could have blocked the loading of skin settings when pressing the "reload skin" button, improves video postprocessing, and adds the missing PVR and controller handling binary add-ons on Windows systems.

Ultimately, Kodi 17 "Krypton" Beta 5 now displays real-time splash screen text, refreshed once per second, when doing add-on and database upgrades. A few known issues still remain in this pre-release version, so we recommend that you read the release notes for additional info on that. In the meantime, download Kodi 17 Beta 5 right now.