Showtime Media Player for PS3 v2.99.401 Arrives with Bug Fixes

109w ago - 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: Showtime Media Player for PS3 v2.99.401

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: Showtime 2.99.393 Media Player for PS3