Showtime PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System is Released!

[einzwei]

Feature I miss most in Showtime is samba (or what ever windows shared discs are called) support... sigh

[Tiger007]

Am I the only one that has issues with 1080p video? Cpu is to slow, almost all 1080p stutters. 720p is fine...

[PS3 News]

Showtime Repack v3.1.203 (Unofficial Build) for PS3 from Redsquirrel87 is posted below with the changelog, as follows:

Download: Showtime Repack v3.1.203 (Unofficial Build) for PS3

• ps3: Add our own sfo.xml
• ps3: Implement a hdd-based read-ahead cache when streaming video
• htsp: Include description from EPG in data model
• Fix problem when upgrading plugins
• lang cleanup
• tcp sockets: Move spill buffer to tcpcon_t
• Add missing prop_unsubscribe() causing memory corruption
• Added createInt to the plugin documentation
• spotify: Optimize metadata handling
• Fix null deref
• Add support for detection if seeking in a file is a slow operation.
• Allow service discovery to be disabled
• httpclient: Don't fail if we get disconnected during receive of body in 3xx and 4xx requests
• Fix bug in JSON decoder making it choke on empty dicts
• js: Fix missing rooting of JSObject

Showtime Repack v3.1.208 (Unofficial Build) for PS3 is also below with the following changes:

Download: Showtime Repack v3.1.208 (Unofficial Build) for PS3

• Merge pull request #29 from whyz/master
• Merge pull request #30 from tomodachi/patch-1
• added needed dependencies for ubuntu natty 11.04
• ps3: Add our own sfo.xml
• ps3: Implement a hdd-based read-ahead cache when streaming video
• htsp: Include description from EPG in data model
• Fix problem when upgrading plugins
• lang cleanup
• tcp sockets: Move spill buffer to tcpcon_t
• Add missing prop_unsubscribe() causing memory corruption
• Added createInt to the plugin documentation
• spotify: Optimize metadata handling
• Fix null deref
• Add support for detection if seeking in a file is a slow operation.
• Allow service discovery to be disabled
• httpclient: Don't fail if we get disconnected during receive of body in 3xx and 4xx requests
• Fix bug in JSON decoder making it choke on empty dicts
• js: Fix missing rooting of JSObject

[NTA]

Am I the only one that has issues with 1080p video? Cpu is to slow, almost all 1080p stutters. 720p is fine...

I thought it was just me lol...

Also it's fine to use the unofficial builds of showtime right? Haven't updated in a long time

[DaEloG]

did you turn on the "Force Level 4.2 for h264 content" option?

it's no problem to use the unofficial builds of showtime, it will not harm your ps3.

[PS3 News]

Following up on his previous updates, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has now updated the PS3 Media Player to Showtime Repack v3.1.213 with the changes detailed below as always:

Download: Showtime Repack v3.1.213 (Unofficial Build) for PS3

Showtime Repack v3.1.213 for PS3 Changelog:

• Add support for floating point audio in audio pipeline.
• libspotify v9
• Implement our own pool allocator
• Improve read-ahead cache a bit
• linux: Remove d-bus interface. It's buggy and crashes.

More PlayStation 3 News...

[NTA]

did you turn on the "Force Level 4.2 for h264 content" option?

it's no problem to use the unofficial builds of showtime, it will not harm your ps3.

I was wondering about that option. Should I turn it on if it already isn't?

[DaEloG]

I was wondering about that option. Should I turn it on if it already isn't?

this option will force the use of "hw-accelaration" (don't know how to tell) for files which normally aren't supported cause of their level. forcing this unfortunatly caused problems with some other files. so now you can choose if want this or not. just turn it on try your file again, i have it turned on all the time.

[PS3 News]

Today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman has officially updated Showtime PS3 Media Player to version 3.1.228, which now includes multichannel audio output on the PlayStation 3 console.

Download: https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-3.1.228.gbd329.pkg / https://github.com/downloads/andoma/showtime/showtime-3.1.228.gbd329.self

To quote: Another release. This build adds support for multichannel audio output on PS3 (AC-3, DTS and 8 channel linear PCM). Note that due to how the PS3 audio frameworks applications can not output raw digital bitstreams.

So Showtime still needs to decode the audio and than the PS3 will reencode the audio in the best available encoding mode the user has selected (or don't do any encoding at all if 8 channel PCM is available)

Still this is a major step compared to having just 2 channel stereo.

For all you who roll your own builds of Showtime, please note that you need latest version of my PSL1GHT fork for Showtime to build.

I've also fixed a major memory leak that manifested itself when rendering fonts with outline (which is default for subtitles). So if you watched a movie with subtitles the memory would drain and Showtime would eventually crash.

Another thing is the increase of packet buffer to 40MB in conjunction with some adjustments to socket buffers, etc. This should hopefully make streaming over lousy wireless connections better.

Have fun!

Andreas


More PlayStation 3 News...

[SwordOfWar]

This build has video playback broken. I tried some MKVs I had that worked perfectly fine until updating. Now I get audio but no video at all.

I even tried deleting the application and reinstalling the pkg but same issue. This is on my Kmeaw 3.55

Avoid installing this build.

UPDATE: The playback issue does not happen on all formats. It seems to only be an issue with a few videos I have. However, they did work fine on previous versions so I have contacted the developer about the issue and I'm giving him all the information I can, so hopefully it will be fixed soon in a later build.

If you have playback issues just revert back to a previous build for now.