Quick update folks from Redsquirrel87.  he has released another unofficial build of Showtime with some more tweaks to it.

Changelog for v3.1.9:

• Fix videolaunch layout a bit
• Use prop_create_check()
• Allow result_sizep to be NULL in http_request(
• Drop unnecessary if() statement

SOURCE: Redsquirrel87.com

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The unofficial Showtime Repack has been updated. This time being version 3.1.5, it resolves a memory leak problem and fixes a browsing problem with ZIP archives.

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Showtime Repack v3.1.3 was released by redsquirrel87. This is an unofficial Showtime media player but the face family mapping has been improved.

Quote from redsquirrel87:

Download: Showtime Repack v3.1.3

Source: Redsquirrel’s twitter

Alright folks, here is a quick overview of showtime for those who don’t know what it is:

Andreas has added a really nifty feature, the ability to zoom via a popup menu, to this excellent app! Also as you can see from the quote below it will be a while before he releases any update, but when he does there will be some much wanted fixes made.

Well have fun with zooming in on your movies folks!!!

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Showtime Overview

An Update of the famous PS3 Media Player Showtime has been released. Thanks to Andreas Öman for his great Application!

A list of changes since 2.99.401 release:

Popup menu redesigned a bit
Add support for Windows 1251 codepage
upnp: Make sure that we really find subtitles when doing a blind probe. This bug has caused problems for some people making some video not start at all.
Make it possible to enter credentials in the auth popup that is not saved to disk
Add support for passing mimetypes internally. This speed up media loading and playback start.
ps3: Update XMB icon (better centered)
Make SRT subtitle discovery better
Add support for setting subtitle output delay
Add seek-by-thumbnail in the command popup menu (looks very bad on ps3 at the moment though)
ui: Redesign the auth popup
Improve the setting views
ps3: Add support for BD remote
Add support for cycling between audio and subtitle tracks using a single button
Make presentation of audio and subtitle tracks better
Improve subtitle rendering. There is a lot of changes here. see bc0cf58e and 76142920
ps3: Display all reasonable entries found in system VFS root as services on their own
ps3: If display operates in non-square pixel 16:9 mode, scale UI accordingly
Use libav.org’s recently released 0.7 version (with a couple of bug fixes on top)

Changelog

Download Showtime 2.99.534

Usage Guide and FAQ

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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]

Andreas Öman has released the latest version of his awesome PS3 Media Player, here are the changes:

ps3: Fix video bitrate calculation when using SPU decoder
Fix bitmapped subtitle formats (VOBSUB) on bigendian (such as PS3) systems.
Fix scanning of SRT subtitles
webdavclient: Strip ‘http://host’ in webdav responses before parsing.
linux: Prefer openssl over libssl
ps3: Use system fonts (Latin, Japanese, Korean, Chinese) so lots of more characters should work now
subtitles: Autodetect encoding of SRT files
ps3: Fix seeking bugs when playing with cell acceleration
ps3: Force cell decoder into level 4.2 even if content is 5.x
Add support for all ISO 8859 character encodings and make it configurable in Language -> Settings which default character encoding to use for SRT files.

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The awesome piece of homebrew Showtime Media Player has once again been updated! Many new updates in the latest version, full changelog below:

Features:

• Playback of video and audio
• Javascript plugins
• Unified search
• View photos and images in slideshow mode
• Live TV streaming from Tvh

Update v2.99.275

• Better strategy for waiting on UPNP devices to show up when browsing
• Allow playback of videoparams:-ish URLs directly
• prop: Add an option that allows a string property only to be set if previously unset
• (debug) log when user switches track (audio or subs)
• Add htsmsg_json_serialize_to_str()
• upnp: Use videoparams:{} when launching video to get correct title
• Remove #include (it’s unused)
• glw: Fix misrouted event signals
• glw: Make glw_math_sse.h compile with -O0
• ps3: Fix video bitrate calculation when using SPU decoder
• Fix bitmapped subtitle formats on bigendian systems. Ticket #433
• Fix scanning of SRT subtitles Ticket #408
• glw: Remove sizeBias attribute
• fa_bundle: Must advance file pos after read
• Rework font rendering
• ps3: Preload system fonts
• More stringent UTF-8 parser
• subtitles: Autodetect encoding of SRT files

[Download Showtime for FW 3.41 and 3.55]

Dean has without a doubt the greatest PS3 hombrew application in existence, it does Filemanager, it does FTP, it does Game Backups and now with the integration of Andoma’s Showtime Home Theater System, it does a multitude of multimedia, perhaps he could add facanferff’s Suite App, here is a quote from the change log:

1.16.15 -

* Added support to launch video files from file manager by spawning Showtime player
* Special version of Showtime player required to handle video playback from multiMAN
* Added CBOX2/GBOX2.PNG for themes with full alpha transparency
* Fixed issues when launching games on WN/WT firmwares
* Fixed rare issue with select+x games from USB with too long path names
* Improved initial scan (no scanning for games when not needed)
* Improved 4×2 and 8×4 display visualization

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Thanks to facanferff for the tip on IRC

Tons of new updates on your favorite PS3 homebrew!

Showtime

Showtime, a PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System application, has been updated to now include 1080p support. More info on what showtime does HERE.

To quote:

[Download Showtime]

[VIA Lonely Coder]

Rogero Manager v8.3 Beta 2

Rogero backup manager v8.2 beta 2 is going some heavy work as well.

To quote:

Here’s another test release of Rogero Manager v8.3,
-This one have PL3 support for FW3.15/3.41/3.55 and Syscall36 also for FW3.55
-This version now can detect any version with spoof and load its Paytload.
-This version have the [USB_MOUNT] feature now Fully Automatic.
(it will load Black Screen Games automatically)
-Added Background Music to the GUI.

Many other functions are still not completed, I’m just releasing this version
as a test to check if all current modifications are working as it should.

[Download Rogero Manager v8.3 beta 2]
[VIA PSX-Scene]

ES35′s Customize+Learn to dev on PS3

emerson35 has also been busy recently. He has added a slight update to his ES35 customize, mainly adding a few improvements and an options menu. ES35 is an RCO editor/copier – mainly for PS3 theme editing etc..

BACKGROUND
RCOs are a bunch of xml files encrypted together,
you can mod these with RCOMage and make custom strings on your xmb.
RAFs are Video files. the only one that is a raf is coldboot.raf, which is the boot logo. Can be made with ColdBoot Maker. Tutorial Here.
AC3s are of course audio files, which is the boot sound.

I might make a tutorial on modding RCOs for noobs if i receive some positive feedback.

CUSTOMIZE

To Customize
1. put flash drive into computer and make the folder structure of customize/modz(example F:/customize/modz)
2. put all your customized files in that folder.
3. make sure all the names of the files are the same as the orginal(case sesitive)
4. copy ES35′s Customize v0.1.geohot.pkg to the root of your flash drive (example F:/)
5. put that flash drive into the ps3, and go to install pkg files.
6. install ES35′s Customize v0.1.geohot.pkg
7. scroll down to ES35′s Customize v0.1
8. observe the great graphics of the icon and background image, and remember to donate.
9. open it, and click install.
10. quit.

To Clean up
1. Open it, press the up and down dpad buttons to scroll to clean it up.
2. press X.
3. quit.
CLEANING DOES TAKE AROUND 30 SECONDS.

[Download]
[VIA NGU]

He also has started a PS3 development blog for anyone interested in making home brew on the PS3, you can check that out HERE.

Andoma has released Showtime – a PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System application. Showtime is a media player for use on HTPC media centers. It is primarily intended to be controlled via keypad input such as a IR or bluetooth remote control, keyboards, etc but works also very well with a pointer device.

Features:

• Playback of video and audio
• Javascript plugins
• Unified search
• View photos and images in slideshow mode
• Live TV streaming from Tvheadend
• Spotify integration

A quote from his page:

PS3 usage guide

Getting started

Download the files from here: Download
Full featureset see: This

Most of this should work except for playback of high res. HD videos (basically when the PPU runs out of cycles). There are some methods of fixing them, but no one knows yet. I will update it when they do.

This has been tested with 576i, 720p and 1080i video resolutions.

People have tried to set reasonable defaults for overscan compensation. But if it not correct for you it can be adjusted under Settings -> Display and UI settings

✕ Enter current item
○ Go back (exit)
△ Show options / playcontrol menu
□ Screensaver (Until something better has been figured out)
► Play/Pause
▬ Home menu
✜ Navigate it
L3 – Get playback info (During video playback)
R3 – Get log console

-The only current way to input characters is by using a standard keyboard.

- Virtual keyboards are supported at the moment.

Things that do NOT work

-TV-style remote controller has not been tested. No idea if it works or not.

-BD/DVD/CD Discs – No idea how that works

-Digital pass thru audio (AC3, DTS, etc)

Please issue them here.

Build it yourself!?

Read the README located here.

Download files (their server is being hammered, waiting on a mirror):

Showtime PS3 PKG File

Showtime PS3 SELF File

[VIA Showtime]