• Homebrew, PS3 Hacks , 21.05.2011

    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

    Source

    [Download Showtime]

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    Discuss in Forums (22)


  • 22 Comments

    1. 2die4
      05-20-2011
      11:25 PM
      1

      thanks
      download mirror link at megaupload

      http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W6RPWH2V

    2. Thelostdeathknight
      05-20-2011
      11:39 PM
      2

      Thanks 2die4! Here's another Download Mirror http://www.fileserve.com/file/jGexMAK

    3. Pirate
      05-21-2011
      02:00 AM
      3

      Moved to front page

    4. santaro
      05-21-2011
      02:29 AM
      4

      This is another reason I need Cfw 3.60

    5. yuco91
      05-21-2011
      04:33 AM
      5

      it's this pkg already compatible with 3.41 firmware? thx in advance

    6. elpiratiux
      05-21-2011
      04:45 AM
      6

      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.

    7. yuco91
      05-21-2011
      05:05 AM
      7

      Originally Posted by elpiratiux View Post
      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.
      i think your problem is that this pkg is compiled for 3.55 CFWs. I don't remember now , how to compile it for 3.41 firmware too. help us ! thx

    8. Thelostdeathknight
      05-21-2011
      05:22 AM
      8

      Originally Posted by yuco91 View Post
      i think your problem is that this pkg is compiled for 3.55 CFWs. I don't remember now , how to compile it for 3.41 firmware too. help us ! thx
      I can't help you there maybe someone else can but i will say this give it a few days maybe a week and Deank with have this new version combined into multiMAN. Seriously that man is unstoppable.

    9. budzio
      05-21-2011
      06:15 AM
      9

      exactly! Let us give Deank a while
      In meanwhile i wonder know if this version correctly supports polish fonts :D ?

    10. Eamon
      05-21-2011
      09:37 AM
      10

      Anyone know if there is a version working for 3.55 Waninkoko V2

    11. psik
      05-21-2011
      09:50 AM
      11

      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

    12. GregoryRasputin
      05-21-2011
      10:39 AM
      12

      Originally Posted by psik View Post
      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

      Of course it is allowed, PSXScene is a great site, so its fine

    13. 2die4
      05-21-2011
      11:54 AM
      13

      just finished testing it loads of bug fixes this homebrew just got sooo much better

    14. deank
      05-21-2011
      01:03 PM
      14

      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.

      D

    15. budzio
      05-21-2011
      04:01 PM
      15

      awesome

    16. fuzzydunlop
      05-21-2011
      04:29 PM
      16

      Love this app, keep up the good work!

    17. NakedFaerie
      05-22-2011
      12:24 AM
      17

      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.

    18. JesterMinute
      05-22-2011
      12:47 PM
      18

      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!

    19. josvadolla
      05-25-2011
      09:57 AM
      19

      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?

    20. DJ_3Sixty
      05-26-2011
      04:26 AM
      20

      I am STILL having problems with files like this:

      Code:
      QuiteTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 Format
      
      Video:
      H264, High (Level 4.1), 1280x532
      
      Audio:
      AAC, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 398 kb/s
      Either dont play at all of only play the audio

      VERY sad face, as this is such a good program it seems silly it wont play files the PS3 can play normally.

    21. josvadolla
      05-27-2011
      11:57 AM
      21

      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...

    22. xxxos
      05-27-2011
      01:19 PM
      22

      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?