113w ago - Today
andoma announced on IRC that he has released Showtime - a PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System media player application!
Download:
Showtime PS3 PKG File /
Showtime PS3 SELF File /
Showtime PS3 for 3.41 (by
deanrr) /
Showtime GIT v2.99.183.gbf4bb for PS3 /
Showtime Overview /
Showtime Repo
To quote from his page linked above: After about a month of hacking I'm happy to announce that Showtime now can be run as a native "homebrew" application on the PS3. See PS3 usage guide for more information of how to get started.
If you have any questions please use the
PS3 forum on this site.
PS3 usage guide
Getting started
Download files here: http://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/showtime/files
For a full featureset of Showtime see http://www.lonelycoder.com/showtime
Most of this should work except for playback of high res. HD videos (basically when the PPU runs out of cycles). There are a bunch of strategies for how this should be handled but I've not had time to start digging into this yet
Video output
Showtime on PS3 has been tested with 576i, 720p and 1080i video resolutions.
I've 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
Buttons on controller
✕ Activate (Enter) currently focused item
○ Navigate back
△ Bring up options / playcontrol menu
□ Screensaver (Until something better has been figured out)
► Play/Pause
▬ Home menu
✜ Navigate
L3 - Bring up playback info (During video playback)
R3 - Bring up log console
Keyboard
- Plugging in a standard keyboard in the PS3 USB port works and is currently the only way to input characters.
- No virtual keyboard is supported at the moment.
Other stuff that does not work
- TV-style remote controller (whatever that's called) 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)
Bugs?
There are probably plenty of those. Please use the issue tracker at http://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/showtime/issues/new
Build it yourself!?
Start by reading README here: https://github.com/andoma/showtime
Please let me know. Thank you.
Thanks
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.
Download: Showtime v04.02.000 DEX PKG by [b
Showtime PS3 Media Player v4.2 Changelog:
Some highlights:
Virtual keyboard
Integration with thetvdb.com
Chapter support for movies
Support for subtitle plugins
And as usual, a lot of bugs squashed
4.2
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
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