Showtime PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System is Released!

[PS3 News]

Showtime Homebrew Home Theater System v2.99.275 is now released.

Download: Showtime Homebrew Home Theater System v2.99.275

Update v2.99.275 changelog:

• 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

[kalavera]

The stream of SRT subtitles via my NAS still don't work even with the v2.99.275 ... Any solution for this? Thanks

[DaEloG]

To quote from http://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/showtime/activity :

ABC

for cfw3.55: http://www.multiupload.com/DRZ5PF6MED

[kalavera]

Even with this latest version the external srt files doesn't stream from my NAS But thanks for this latest build!

[PS3 News]

Today Andoma has updated the Showtime Media Player PS3 homebrew port to version v2.99-284 with changes detailed below.

Download: https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-2.99.284.g4159b.self / https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-2.99.284.g4159b.pkg / https://github.com/andoma/showtime/

Showtime Media Player PS3 v2.99.284 Changelog:

Mostly bugfixes in this release, here are the highlights:

• ps3: Fix video bitrate calculation when using SPU decoder
• Fix bitmapped subtitle formats (VOBSUB) on bigendian (such as PS3) systems. Ticket #433
• Fix scanning of SRT subtitles Ticket #408.
• webdavclient: Strip 'http://host' in webdav responses before parsing. Ticket #426
• 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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[tonybologna]

I found a couple 3.41 CFW links for the latest version but it's not working. I'm getting the error code of 80029564 when trying to copy the pkg to PS3 which normally associates with a payload not running. I have Hermes PL4D running but it will not install. Any clues guys? Could there be a probem with the pkg compile for 3.41? Thanks!

[MUGSY]

Hello chaps. I'm trying to figure out how to get tvhead end on showtime. So far the only channels i have are some swedish crap and even then they are choppy. Thanks

[kalavera]

ABC

Can anyone build the latest revision? The reported bug was marked as fixed and other upnp related issues. Thanks in advance.

[DaEloG]

check the forum on showtime website, you will find newest version there or click on the link below.

http://www.multiupload.com/PZ2YKJFRT3

[NTA]

PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime Media Player for PS3 today to v2.99.401 which includes several bug fixes and performance tweaks, as follows:

Showtime v2.99.401 Changelog:

• 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

Download Link: https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-2.99.401.gfd820.pkg

Showtime 2.99.393 Changelog:

• 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

Download Link: https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-2.99.393.gccada.pkg


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