{"id":24466,"date":"2025-12-19T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:37:44","slug":"kodi-21-3-omega-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/kodi-21-3-omega-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi 21.3 &#8220;Omega&#8221; Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major user-facing changes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added HDR support on Xbox One<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed Blu-ray playback on Linux<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed audio\/subtitle issues when resuming Blu-rays<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed handling of HDR10 light metadata changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed subtitle selection for ISO 639-1 (two-letter) language codes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Library\/Sources and Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improved 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