38w ago - Following up on the
previous release, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer
Andreas Oman has updated the Showtime PS3 Media Player Stable and Testing Builds to version 4.0 alongside a DEX port with the changes outlined below:
Download:
Showtime 4.0 PKG /
Showtime GH 4.0 PKG /
Showtime 4.0 SELF /
Showtime 4.0 (Testing) PKG /
Showtime GH 4.0 (Testing) PKG /
Showtime 4.0 (Testing) SELF /
Showtime 4.0 for DEX coded by
andoma and compiled by
andbey0nd /
Showtime 4.0 for DEX (Mirror) /
GIT
Showtime 4.0 is finally released.
Some highlights:
- New UI design
- Self upgrade of both Showtime itself (only on PS3) and all plugins (all platforms)
- Automatically load metadata from themoviedb.org
- Improved support for subtitles (in particular external ASS/SSA files and vobsub files)
- Support for on screen keyboard on PS3
- Buttons on PS3 dual shock controller have changed their meaning a bit: See PS3 usage guide for details
- Each focusable item have a dedicated popup menu (Use □ button on dual shock controller for this)
- File browsing will sort folders first and then files. Sorting can be adjusted in the per page menu (△ on dual shock controller)
- Lots of bug fixes
- ... + more stuff I've forgotten
Try it out! See you soon.
Showtime 4.0 for DEX Changelog:
- Install "Showtime 04.00.000 [DEX].pkg"
- Start it from "TV/Video" column - it will return to XMB after initial processing (it will happen only the first time you start it after installation)
- Start it again and enjoy andoma's great work
PS3 usage guide
Getting started
For a full featureset of Showtime see lonelycoder.com/showtime
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 dual shock controller
Button Normal + Select
✕ Activate (enter or play) currently focused item
○ Navigate back Stop playback
△ Bring up options for current page Switch view
□ Bring up options for currently focused item
► Play/Pause Go to playqueue
✜ Navigate cursor, press harder to move faster - During video playback left and right can be used to seek - Move items (where possible)
L1 Skip back
For audio: Previous track
For video: Previous chapter
R1 Skip forward
For audio: Next track
For video: Next chapter
L2 Seek backward
R2 Seek forward
L3 Show system info
R3 Show system log
Note: In some regions the ✕ and ○ buttons are swapped. This is also done in Showtime.
Keyboard
- Plugging in a standard keyboard in the PS3 USB port works and is currently the only way to input characters.
- Press ✕ in a text box to bring up on screen keyboard
Showtime PS3 Media Player 4.0 Changelog:
4.0
Say hello to Showtime 4.0
3.99.608
ps3: Replace XMB icon to new one by Mike S (thanks dude!)
The pkg needs to be reinstalled for this to take effect
3.99.605
Pass filename without file ending to metadata lookup functions. Avoids the file ending reappearing if lookup failes or is disabled
3.99.604
Fix problem with bad clock from AVI files. This caused subtitles to appear multiple times. Fixes #1170
3.99.582
Notify user on home screen if a new version of Showtime is available.
This feature can be turned off under Settings -> General
3.99.580
Work on metadata lookup for movies.
Allow the user to select the 'none' datasource that will just not try to lookup anything for a given file
Improve logic that use foldername to search for movie metadata. Showtime will now use the folder name if there is no match when using title to search and only if there is only one video file longer than 5 minutes in the folder.
Get rid of various crashes related to metadata probing
Fixes #1159
Fixes #1160
3.99.578
Plug three different memory leaks related to subtitles. These caused out of memory and thus crash of Showtime. Mostly related to vobsub and DVD subtitles
Fixes #1165
3.99.575
Fix issue with subtitles loaded from UPNP/DLNA to not appear correctly in subtitle selection menu
3.99.574
Fix problem with SRT files that start with UTF-8/16 BOM markers
Fixes #1136
3.99.566
Fix a bug causing the in-RAM index of cached content to be corrupted
This bug could result in randomg hangs of some parts of showtime (Notifications that didn't go away, images not loaded)
Also it could crash showtime during shutdown
3.99.538
Remember selected subtitle and audio track for each video file
Fixes #1141
3.99.532
Fix broken seeking in files that does not start at PTS 0
Fixes #1124
3.99.530
Add support for upgrades of Showtime from within Showtime
Check for updates in Settings -> General
Currently only supported on PS3 platform
3.99.513
Improve metadata lookup
User is now able to enter a custom query in the item popup menu. It's also possible to enter a IMDb ID directly there.
Showtime will also automatically use the folder name of the video if it seems more appropriate. An internal scoring system is used to choose if it should try to search using file name or folder name.
Score results can be seen as debug in logfile
3.99.510
ps3: Seek using L2 and R2 buttons
3.99.502
Improve RTMP robustness
Reconnecting an RTMP stream during playback is now completely invisible to the user.
3.99.496
Rework UI during video and audio playback
3.99.483
PS3: Add support for the system on screen keyboard (finally!)
Press X in an textbox to popup the on screen keyboard
3.99.480
ps3: Improve button mappings on ps3
Select + ○ will stop playback
Select + ► will open playqueue
3.99.479
Showtime will now hide all files it cannot play by default
This feature can be disabled/enabled on per-directory bases in the page menu
3.99.473
Fix various bugs related to seeking
3.99.471
Some people reported a regression in Showtime's key repeat delay on PS3. The shortened key repeat delay has now been reverted to the previous value
3.99.470
Fix a problem with TMDB search lockups
3.99.461
Improve speed when seeking (using left/right buttons) during video playback.
With the PS3 six axis dual shock remote controller the user can press harder on the left/right buttons to increase seek speed
3.99.450
Fix a bug causing issues with audio if a file contains an audio track that switches from one mode to another.
Typically TV shows where the recap is in stereo and the main episode in 5.1 suffered from this bug
3.99.437
When browsing files it's now possible to enable/disable the sorting of folders before files in the page menu
3.99.436
When browsing files it's now possible to sort on files on date.
See the page menu (△ button on PS3)
3.99.428
Improve metadata lookup for movies.
- Allow the user to select which of the metadata providers to use for a certain movie
- Allow the user to select between all results for a given movie
3.99.427
Fix some issues related to uPnP / DLNA discovery.
This should make Showtime find PS3 Media Server and Universal Media Server immediately on start. Previously it had to wait for the periodic notification before adding them
3.99.419
ps3: Based on region, swap X and O button if configured in system
Finally, below is a video format compatibility chart in German from
osta (via boerse.bz/multimedia/konsolen/playstation-1-3/psjailbreak/714064-show-10.html#post7232119) for those interested in a rough idea of how far along Showtime 4 is coming.
Agree with Racer, no need to be on 3.55 anymore, Rebug 4.30.2 or 4.41 Lite is the way to go....
i'll try to turn it off, but then it's right back on when i load up showtime again.
Else, the GUI is just look sexy, just dont like the bigger Icons today, I just the way it look like in 4.00
But at least there are one or more bugs were fixed, none of them were related fixing the various SMB bugs that most of the time crashes the PS3.