SPMC

Semper Media Center (SPMC in short) is a android-minded fork of Kodi, by the former Kodi android maintainer, Koying

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Jarvis

As far as I’m concerned, Nvidia Shield has basically cornered the market, so is my main development device. More generally, Android TV devices, amlogic devices and Amazon FireTV might be getting some love ;)
Important: No more Rockchip specific support as of this version

Note 1: As of 16.5.0, Android lollipop (API 21) is required
Note 2: For recommendations and android voice search, SPMC must be already running.

Latest Jarvis build is: 16.7.1 link
ARM32 APK: link
More downloads at: link

Google Play: link
Issues and questions: github
FAQ: wiki

Changelog:

16.7.1 (2017/07/30)

FIX: TMDB scrapper

16.7.0 (2017/05/29)

CHG: Bump python to 2.7
FIX: transversal zip security vulnerability

16.6.0 (2017/03/01)

ADD: “Visible behind” for Android TV
ADD: “Now playing” for Android TV
FIX: HD audio IEC on N (Shield + Mi)
FIX: use PT RAW for re-encoding if selected- FIX: 3D -> 2D in amcs
FIX: windowed amc
ADD: Dynamic amcs surfaces
FIX: amcs rotation
FIX: plugin cache
ADD: zeroconf via API
FIX: 4K GUI
FIX: High CPU load
ADD: Smoothstreaming
FIX: crash on exit with NFS

16.5.5 (2016/12/29)

Fix Shield crash

16.5.4 (2016/12/23)

More bug fixes

16.5.3 (2016/12/19):

FIX: crash on exit
FIX: WOL
FIX: Hiccups in plain Mediacodec

16.5.2 (2016/12/11):

FIX: Regressions
ADD: SD h/w setting for HEVC

16.5.1 (2016/12/08):

FIX: 4K on AFTV2
FIX: Crash in new Network code
FIX: Crash when exiting on aarch64
FIX: Crash on AML 6.01 FW
ADD: Limit AC3 encoder to 384kb/s with Quality < High

16.5.0 (2016/11/30):

CHG: API 21+ (Android 5.0) only, sorry.
ADD: 4K on AFTV2
ADD: refresh rate sync on AFTV
ADD: DASH support (aka 1080p/4K youtube)
ADD: Builtin log (Settings-System-Logging-Upload…)
ADD: crash handler (no need for logcat)
ADD: rendercapture (boblight, Hue, …) support for Surface
FIX: Only stop Surface when really necessary
CHG: Revert to Surface as standard
ADD: acceleration setting for hevc

16.4.2 (2016/08/15):

REVERT: crash when enumerating sound devices during a refresh rate change
FIX: Missing start of video with large buffer

16.4.1 (2016/08/01):

FIX: stalls after seek
FIX: [includeall] avoid double episodes

16.4.0 (2016/07/14):

CHG: Enable YADIF for arm
ADD: Export single item to NFO via context menu
FIX: Properly cache if both audio and video are starving
FIX: GLES font corruption inevitable after few days runtime
FIX: [shield] properly handle wifi direct headset
CHG: [leanback] force recommendation update every hour

16.3.0 (2016/05/01):

ADD: HQ scalers (Shield only, afaik)
ADD: GUI selection of H/W decoders
ADD: [AFTV(S)] get real HDMI refresh rate
ADD: additional “ffmpeg” s/w deinterlacer
FIX: Save skin settings immediately
FIX: lockup with Twitch addon
FIX: stream details issues
FIX: sorting issues
FIX: background music issues
Merge Kodi 16.1

16.2.1 (2016/04/14):

ADD: Boost center channel on downmix
FIX: UTF8 formatted labels
FIX: stream details detection
FIX: “block” fonts

16.2.0 (2016/04/02):

Add voice recognition to soft keyboard (cf. [faq] (https://github.com/koying/SPMC/wiki/How-to-use-the-voice-recognition-feature) )
Add Thumbnails cleanup (cf. [faq] (https://github.com/koying/SPMC/wiki/Where-is-the-%22Clean-Thumbnails%22-option%3F) )
[Shield] fallback to s/w for 3D (still issues with HTAB/HSBS)
(re-)Add reboot & shutdown on rooted devices
Add support for AudioFormat::ENCODING_IEC61937 (Android N IEC passthrough)
Expand recommendations and voice search to tv shows and music albums
Fix IEC passthrough volume issue
TrueHD PT buffer tweaks
Backport “disable PT when sync to display is enabled”

16.1.2 (2016/03/20):

Fix execution on Android < 4.4
Fix voice search (+ enable Web server by default)
Add spmc_env.properties support; fallback on xbmc_env.properties
Add possibility to choose IEC or RAW passthrough (via passthrough device)
Fix low sample rates audio
Revert to using xbmclogs.com

16.1.1 (2016/03/13):

Fix DTS issue
Fix Mediacodec surface in 4K GUI
“Back” = Stop in fullscreen video

16.1.0 (2016/03/13):

Based on Kodi 16.1
HD Audio passthrough (Shield + some aml, Minix U1 & Wetek Core at least)
Autostart at boot (xbmc.autostart=true in xbmc_env.properties)
GUI size setting (Allow 4k gui on Shield)
Only give codec priority to Mediacodec(Surface) for 4K
Only stop video on minimize for Mediacodec(Surface)
“System” screensaver to enable daydream; all other screensavers disable daydream
Get removable storage names from system
Basic Bluray 3D iso playback (experimental; amlogic)
Android TV recommendations and voice search (experimental)
SSL enabled MySql
Stop video playback when screen goes off
Setting to force SMB v1 (might solve windows connection issues)
The ever good ol’ “Import All” option