Showtime PS3 Media Player 4.1.273 Testing Build is Now Available
Following up on the previous release, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman has updated the Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 4.1.273 with the changes outlined below.
Make sure Showtime does not downgrade a plugin to a lesser version
4.1.269
Add support for replacing various parts of the UI using plugins. More information about this will surface once plugins support it
4.1.267
For beta-testers of plugins there is now a setting under "General" where a user can specify a, list of space separated, passwords
that will enable beta testing of plugins. Passwords are administrated by the plugin developer
4.1.259
Add support for adjusting volume during video playback using up/down keys
Fixes #1241
Fixes #1123
Fixes #751
Fixes #560
4.1.249
Don't wrap from end to beginning of list during continuous video playback
Fixes #1250
4.1.245
Correctly recognize '.m2ts' as a file type ending to ignore
Fixes #1391
4.1.244
Reworked audio pipeline. This should fix various issues. In particular various clicks and pops now and then on PS3 should be gone.
Fixes #1408
Fixes #1308
Fixes #1005
Fixes #964
4.1.225
Upgrade to libav9_beta2. This is a huge upgrade that might cause problems with some files. Please report bugs if anything seems to have broken
4.1.221
Fix broken RTMP(E) playback on PS3
4.1.210
Fix a problem that caused playback time to stay at 0:00 for some audio files
4.1.182
Fix problem that caused resume position not to be reset when movie ended
4.1.166
Fix search lookup loops when changing TMDB configuration
Fixes #1293
Fixes #1292
4.1.129
Add support for Shoutcast playback. Plugins are required to be able to browse Shoutcast services
4.1.99
Add support for setting custom movie titles directly from the item popup menu
Fixes #1213
4.1.98
Add an action in settings->general to clear the entire metadb item table. Safeguarded with a popup as it is a non-revocable action.
Fixes #1218
4.1.95
ps3: When seeking using L2/R2, rescale seek delta based on duration of feature. In principle this make it so that the user can always seek from begining to end in ~2 seconds regardless of how long the currently playing media is.
4.1.92
Add Exit and Standby as items in the page popup menu
Fixes #1042
Fixes #1184
4.1.84
Only reset screensaver timer if movie is actually playing
Fixes #1022
Fixes #1115
4.1.76
Add support for plugins that can replace certain parts of the UI
4.1.68
Add support for categorization of plugins. When browsing available plugins they will appear under a category instead of a single long list
4.1.50
TMDB: Let user choose which language to use for TMDB. Also lets user choose if to display the original title or translated title
4.1.26
Don't set resume time for videos if current position < one minute. This makes sure the user does not accidentally lose the resume
position if restarting the video from beginning by mistake
4.1.25
Let 'mark as seen' create entry in item table if it does not exist
Fixes #1175
4.1.20
Improve Showtime's response time to play/pause events
YouTube v2.0 Plugin for Showtime PS3 Media Player is Updated
Following up on his previous release, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer facanferff has updated the YouTube Plugin to version 2.0 for Showtime PS3 Media Player dubbed the New Experience with the changes outlined below.
The first major release of the plugin was more than a year ago and now it is time to renew that experience and provide a improved experience that I hope everyone will enjoy. Please see carefully the changelog so you know exactly what’s new:
Add: Support for Continuous Playback (needs to activate setting in Showtime’s Video Playback Settings)
Add: Main Page now supports order customization (like Showtime Main Page)
Add: Youtube Disco
Add: Native Sorting (by Publish Date, by Views, by Title (incrementing/decrementing) and as Default)
Add: Youtube EDU
Add: Featured feed in Youtube Movies
Add: New User Profile Interface/Experience
Add: New Advanced Mode for videos
Add: Choose what feeds to show in User Profile
Add: Header buttons in Oceanus skin plugin
Add: Item Menu:
Like/Dislike video
Comment video
Add to Favorites
Add to Watch Later
Related Videos
Response Videos
Redirect to Movie (if video is a known trailer)
Trailers (if video is a movie)
Redirect to a Show (if video belongs to a Show)
Redirect to the Show Season (if video belongs to a Show Season)
Fix: Video Playback
Fix: Some videos would fail due to some RegEx differences
Fix: Videos that are no available don’t show friendly error message
Fix: The plugin would load additional pages of a feed that didn’t contain entries
Fix: User Favorites didn’t work
Improvement: Updated video metadata for support in Oceanus skin plugin
Improvement: More flexibe Youtube Search
Improvement: Don’t show login popup in search
As you may see several things that were being asked since the first release are now here, fresh and ready to be used.
Showtime Plugin Youtube changes:
The new Home Screen, using SELECT + Arrows in PS3 you can customize the order of the items.
The improved item listing.
The new Youtube Search screen providing easy to use search for everything you want.
The new advanced mode in videos, cleaner and easier to use.
The new User Profile screen, featuring an easy to use and fast experience.
Installation:
Go to Plugin Central (puzzle icon in home screen) inside Showtime and download the plugin.
Special thanks:
andoma: for creating Showtime and maintaining it
Tyrant: for beta testing the plugin and giving fresh ideas
Note:
When testing, my Beta Tester (El Tyrant) found that the resume videos of Showtime does not work properly with the plugin, so please disable the following settting: Video playback -> Resume video playback
FAQ:
1. I found some issues, had crashes or have suggestions, where can I inform the developer about them?
At lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/showtime.
Finally, below is a brief tutorial on how to log out from the Showtime Plugin YouTube from facanferff (via psx-scene.com/forums/content/tutorial-log-out-showtime-plugin-youtube-2841/) for those interested:
Recently a user in IRC (EFNET, #showtime) asked how to log out from the current user in Youtube plugin for Showtime, so here is a tutorial for it. This method is only needed for versions 1.5 and up where it uses OAuth2 as the main authentication method. This method works for the standalone version.
The process is really simple and may be done via Multiman:
1. Go to the jsstore folder of showtime.
In PS3: /dev_hdd0/HTSS00003/USRDIR/settings/settings/jsstore
In Linux: /home/<user>/.hts/showtime/settings/jsstore
2. Delete the file called youtube-oauth2.
3. Open Showtime and it will no longer use your old user account, so you may authenticate again for another user account.
FAQ
1. Now every time I try to play a video, it fails with random errors, what is happening?
With the recent website changes featuring a new layout, the plugin is unable to play any video. A fix for it is being worked on and will be available once it is possible and it is confirmed to be stable. Sorry for this.
2. I found the plugin crash for some reason, what can I do?
The simplest answer is report it, you can either use lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/showtime/ or github.com/facanferff/showtime-plugin-youtube/issues. Please report any issue you encounter, if you don't I may not face it so I will not fix it by the simple aspect that I won't know about it.
2 questions, first i have a little problem with the showtime youtube plugin.
i have the 4.1.208 version of showtime and the latest version of youtube for it. i have authenticated youtube but whenever i go on my user profile i get this message:
unable to open resource
youtube:user:default
ReferenceError: reference to undefined property data.yt$username
and i can't login into my youtube account. can anybody please tell me how to fix this or if it even can be fixed at all. i tried uninstalling and reinstaling everything, re-authenticating ....
second i have troubles with getting showtime to see some plugins like megaviewer, hd-trailers, game trailers and so on. i put the rar's in the appropriate folder but they don't show once i go to the plugging section of showtime
Hello, I'm using Showtime to read video files stored on an "UPnP Media Server" via WiFi connection. Sometimes with big MKV files, WiFi is too slow (or connection is too bad) and video is lagging. Is there any way to copy the video file before reading it. In others words, can I copy file from Media Server (or network drive) to PS3 HDD. Thanks for help.
Edit: Perhaps Comgenie's Awesome Filemanager or Multiman can do this kind of copy but I did not manage?
Sorry for the double post, but I can no more edit it...
Last edited by pht; 01-12-2013 at 02:42 PMReason: Automerged Doublepost
I compiled it with my changes and it should be ok with mM 04.18.00. Also I decreased the size of the pkg/self with 1MB. Showtime 04.01.386a is compiled with my changes as always. Also the size of the pkg/self is decreased with another 20KB.
You can update your Showtime for multiMAN from within multiMAN via the Video column (select showtime, press Triangle and then Update)
Showtime 04.01.368 [CEX].pkg standalone is available in the WEB column, too.
Update: Showtime 4.1.387 by Andreas Oman is now available online.
Showtime PS3 Media Player 4.2 for CEX and DEX is Now Available
Following up on the previous release and YouTube Plugin, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player to version 4.2 with the changes outlined below.
ps3: Remove "/dev_hdd0/tmp/turnoff" before shutting down system
Fixes #1594
4.1.480
Fix broken colors in VOBSUB
Fixes #1579
4.1.479
Fix regression causing crash with embedded DVD/VOBSUB tracks
Fixes #1577
4.1.477
httpclient: Fix a regression when using range queries to determine filesize
Caused problems with minidlna (possibly other servers)
Fixes #1576
4.1.470
Fix the oversized album art during music playback
4.1.456
ps3: Fix video stuttering in some high bitrate video streams
4.1.454
Fix broken date-sorting (Allow user to sort on newest or oldest first)
Fixes #1297
4.1.451
Rework subtitle scheduling
This allows us to pick subtitles that are out of sync with video stream. Also makes it possible to do negative subtitle time shifting for embedded subs
Fixes #727
Fixes #1470
4.1.445
ps3: Increase audio buffer size
Fix stuttering playback with some audio formats (APE is one)
Fixes #1451
4.1.441
Fix problem that caused picture stuttering in some movies after 20-25 minutes
Fixes #1483
4.1.427
Add support for LPCM in DVD playback
Fixes #1046
4.1.422
Add movie chapters support where supported by file formats
Chapters can be found in menu during video playback next to seek thumbnails and audio/subltitle tracks
Fixes #786
4.1.414
Fix broken seeking in FLAC files
Fixes #1435
4.1.404
Add support for subtitle plugins
This also removes the built-in support for opensubtitles.
Opensubtitles is now available as a plugin. No username + password is needed as opensubtitles.org allows anonymous logins
4.1.401
The list of subtitles are now sorted based on user preferred languages
4.1.398
Fix a bug that made "Custom query" impossible to erase in the metadata editor. It would come back next time the item was scanned
4.1.397
Fix a crash that was caused by invalid markup tags in SRT files
Typically this would happen if the SRT file contained a subtitle entry with just one tag that was invalid. Now such invalid tags will be
presented as normal text instead.
Fixes #1501
4.1.394
ps3: Fix a crash on PS3 when playing AAC HEv2 files
This was caused by too small stack for the threads
Fixes #1515
4.1.387
Fix recently introduced crash in opensubtitles.org module
4.1.386
Add stretch-to-widescreen and stretch-to-fullscreen as options during video playback
Fixes #1334
4.1.383
Add support for getting metadata from thetvdb.com
4.1.382
Allow user to adjust subtitle timing ±10 minutes in increments of 0.5 seconds
4.1.380
Improved support for opensubtitles.org
Showtime will now search in opensubtitles.org database using the movie title and optionally the IMDB ID if it manages to resolve that
To limit the number of returned results it will only include the subtitles that matches the languages configured in Settings -> Languages.
If no such configuration has been entered all results will be displayed.
4.1.373
ps3: Sign pkg files to work with 4.xx CFW
4.1.372
Fix some issues related to mono audio in videos
4.1.371
Use external metadata (TMDB, etc) for video title in video OSD
4.1.369
Avoid doing external metadata lookup for very short file names
4.1.321
Add support for playback of HLS (Http Live Streaming) URLs
4.1.301
Add support for user configurable fonts
To install and use a new font put the font someplace where Showtime can browse it. When clicking on the font Showtime will what you want to use the font for. Showtime will copy the font to an internal storage location.
To select between installed fonts or to reset to default, go to Settings -> Look and Feel -> Fonts
I always have issues with Showtime. Some upgrades ago I lost the tiled view and I got the list view with no icons for everything, besides all the channels I pinned down in the home page disappeared.
This last update was great at first, I received a notification for a new version from inside the application, it downloaded and installed fine and all the bugs went away: the change views option returned and I got the lost channels back.
It is an excellent version... but after close it, every time I try to launch Showtime again I receive an error message. It runs fine from inside Multiman. I will try to delete it an reinstall it from scratch.
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