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I decided to install Alpha 2 last night on my PC just to play with. Other than the Kodi splash screen, I haven't found ANY different functionality. In fact, when I went to choose a skin, I expected to see only Aeon Nox 5 and Transparency but I had a full list and was able install Bello which works perfectly. Did something go wrong since I can still install pre-Helix skins and I haven't noticed and difference anywhere other than the splash screen?
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helta
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if the skins haven't been updated, there maybe some things that you may not even notice have changed. or, nothing has changed and its good to go.
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When I installed Helix on Win7 I noticed it appears to be built against VC++ 2013 and I had to install the runtime libs. Also I notice the installer has a bunch of audio codecs to install. IIUC there is an FFMPEG library bump, but haven't investigated that yet.
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hasn't got to do with ffmpeg bump
the reason is that the used encoders have been split up from core code and are now "add-ons", similar to PVR add-ons. in the end a lot more will be add-ons.