It’s been a little while since we have had any news about Showtime Media Player, but no need to worry. The LonelyCoder aka andoma has been busy and as a result has released 2 updates in 2 days. The LonelyCoder has made a lot of improvements to this with bug fixes abundant and performance improvements.
Change logs below:
Showtime v2.99.401
- Fix alignment issues with subtitles.
Make sure each rendered text line is aligned same way as the text bounding box
Fixes ticket #497 - Don’t crash if text rendering fails
- freetype: If we are unable to get a face with style modifiers, try to get one without
It’s ok since we can do italic and bold ourselfs. Before this Showtime crashed - httpclient: Fix regression with non-chunked transfered data
Problem when reading last bytes of file (truncated reads)
Affected playback of .mov/.mp4 files
Showtime 2.99.393
- New PS3 icon in XMB (credits to gizmo)
- Improved subtitle rendering (Can now do some styles, etc from SSA/ASS)
- subtitles: Add support for Windows 1250 character encoding
- Handle UTF-8 BOM in SRT files
- Fix various bugs in PS3 Cell accelerated video decoder
- Improve SRT scanner (Don’t search on UPNP shares, only search parent folder and subs/ folder)
- Faster navigation to new page when clicking on an item
- Fixes for Twonky UPNP/DLNA server
- Fix playback of some AVI files (Timestamp problems)
- Plug a bunch of memory leaks
- Handle and tags in SRT subs, skip other tags
- Add settings for subtitles
- Screen positioning (left, center, right)
- Size adjustment (no longer scale from UI settings)
- Possible to have Showtime always select a subtitle if one is found - Faster start of video playback from upnp (use mimetype to infer container format instead of probing)
- Improve buffer management, see 7ecd2e76
- Improve performance of browsing RAR archives
- Make opensubtitles.org work again
- Support SRT files from minidlna server





05-20-2011
11:25 PM
thanks
download mirror link at megaupload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W6RPWH2V
05-20-2011
11:39 PM
Thanks 2die4! Here's another Download Mirror http://www.fileserve.com/file/jGexMAK
05-21-2011
02:00 AM
Moved to front page
05-21-2011
02:29 AM
This is another reason I need Cfw 3.60
05-21-2011
04:33 AM
it's this pkg already compatible with 3.41 firmware? thx in advance
05-21-2011
04:45 AM
i tried to install the one on the mirror link and i got an error when trying to install. 3.41
im goint to try the one on fileserve and see if it works....
ps3 slim on 3.41 .. just in case u wanna know.
05-21-2011
05:05 AM
05-21-2011
05:22 AM
05-21-2011
06:15 AM
exactly! Let us give Deank a while
In meanwhile i wonder know if this version correctly supports polish fonts :D ?
05-21-2011
09:37 AM
Anyone know if there is a version working for 3.55 Waninkoko V2
05-21-2011
09:50 AM
For 3.41 package see here; sorry not sure if this is allowed but here:
hxxp://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/showtime-v2-99-401-media-player-released-87114/
look for the poster pancho
05-21-2011
10:39 AM
Of course it is allowed, PSXScene is a great site, so its fine
05-21-2011
11:54 AM
just finished testing it loads of bug fixes this homebrew just got sooo much better
05-21-2011
01:03 PM
If you wish to get the new SHOWTIME in multiMAN (not as standalone) you can delete SHOWTIME.SELF from multiMAN's USRDIR folder and play a video - it will download the latest I recompiled today (2.99.401) with added Windows 1251 cyrillic support.
You can also update your multiMAN to 02.00.01T16 if you're already on 2.00.01 from this link --> http://www.multiupload.com/GAR0SE3I3X. It contains the latest showtime, too.
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05-21-2011
04:01 PM
awesome
05-21-2011
04:29 PM
Love this app, keep up the good work!
05-22-2011
12:24 AM
After all the so called bug fixes the one bug I want fixed isn't yet.
I can only see 1 DLNA (UPNP) device when I have 5 of them.
05-22-2011
12:47 PM
I have nothing but problems with this version and all previous versions. Sound is always out of sync and video jerky as hell. Running on a gigabit network (tested) and the internal player is as smooth as silk. Tested with twonky and PS3MS.
I would love to know what or where I am going wrong with this as this would be one of my top homebrew apps if only I could get it working. Help!
05-25-2011
09:57 AM
This player works great, but only when I ftp the mkv's to my internal drive on the ps3. When I try to stream big mkv's (over 8GB) over my gigabit network, the playback stops every now and then. I use windows media player as UPNP server, but I have also tried other UPNP servers like Tvercity and Twonky, but with the same result. I have even tried different routers, but it seems to be a problem with the showtime software for the ps3.
Am I the only one with this problem, do you guys struggle with the same?
05-26-2011
04:26 AM
I am STILL having problems with files like this:
VERY sad face, as this is such a good program it seems silly it wont play files the PS3 can play normally.
05-27-2011
11:57 AM
Okay, so I changed my system from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.04 and now streaming of big mkv files over 10Gb works as a charm. I'm using mediatomb as UPNP server...
05-27-2011
01:19 PM
hello i have a question, i have a problem with the latest showtime.
i have an mkv file on the ps3 but when i try to run it with showtime there is only sound and no picture!how can i solve this?